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Knox Co. Democratic PartySubmitted by R. Neal on Fri, 2008/06/06 - 8:21am.
Changes in the wind? Developing... UPDATE: Knox County Democratic Party Don Daugherty is resigning. His announcement after the jump... From Don Daugherty: I will soon be resigning as Chair of the Democratic Party of Knox County. This is something I have been seriously considering since December, but I wanted to get Truman Day over and make us some money to help some candidates in August, lease a headquarters, and get our voter-file project off the ground. Although I still do not have exact numbers, it looks like we made about $14,000 after paying the bills, and now have about $25,000 in the bank. That's more than we've had in the bank after bills are paid before any election in my memory. We also have leased a headquarters in Fountain City until November. And finally, we have a great plan worked out for our voter-file project and have 3 very good people running that project. In a nutshell, I leave the Party better off than when I inherited in last March. Moreover, I believe an extraordinary number of new faces will come on the local political scene over the next few months as a result of Senator Obama's prospective nomination. There will be folks wanting to get involved who have never been involved, and that will be very exciting. This, in essence, will result in what some folks might call a "sea-change" in the make-up of the local party. I knew that Carville did these kinds of events for a reduce fee, but I had no idea Daugherty paid for it out of his own pocket. UPDATE: Don Daugherty clarifies that he paid half of Carville's fee as a deposit in December to get him here. He has since been paid back. |
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C'mon...how bout a hint. :)
BUMP for the update.
Knox County Democratic Party Bylaws
Article VIII Sec.1
"The Executive Committee shall fill
the vacancy of any Party Officer"
If the Party follows the bylaws there
will be a vote of the Executive Committee
per the Chair being vacant.
Well this is just great. Just as the Dems begin to make inroads into the blind Republican stronghold of Knoxville, the local party can't unify. What petty grievances killed the momentum? We'll be stuck with the pre-enlightenment R's for another 50 years.
Tis a shame. Don worked extremely hard, but I can't fault his decision to step down. It's been tough sledding for him since day one.
It's hard to believe that either party wants real leadership. Fact is, they don't. The officeholders are happy to have a figurehead; they get tense when someone starts to do something. I'll give Larry Smith that. He started organizing candidate workshops and the officeholders chased him out of power and took away the Lincoln Day Dinner.
Larry got elected to County Commission because of his own shoe leather; not because somebody downtown wanted him. -- s.
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