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June 01, 2007
It's Been A While, but We Have Election News
Yesterday, in midtown Memphis, primary voters went to the polls to select their candidates in a special election to fill House district 89 (formerly held by Beverly Marrero, who's now a state Senator in U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen's old seat).
I hadn't followed the primary too closely, but my sense was (based solely on activity in the left-TN blogosphere) that Kevin Gallagher stood a fighting chance. Nope; he was whupped roundly by Jeanne Richardson, who will quite likely go on to win the general next month against GOP nominee Dave Wicker, Jr.
Sharon Cobb has the vote details.
UPDATE: More at VolunteerVoters. It may sound like I read that post before writing mine, but I swear I didn't. I had to go searching for the feed again, as I was missing my 2 favorite WKRN bloggers today. Their posts come through to Bloglines on a different feed every time I turn around. If you see multiple entries in my blogroll, it's because I am just subscribing to all of them, so I don't keep missing out.
State House Elections | By joe lance | 01:23 PM