Fri
Aug 2 2024
06:45 am
Knox County Election Results
By: bizgrrl

Knox County Election Commission Election Results

Knox County election results from WATE.

Gloria Johnson won her primary to run for U.S. Senate against Marsha. I was a tad worried since Marquita Bradshaw ran again and her name is alphabetically at the top of the list. Who know how Democrats vote. Gloria also won the primary for Tennessee House of Representatives District 90.

Jane George running for U.S. House of Representatives District 2, against Burchett, got 25,899 votes. That's something. Burchett only got 54,602 votes. Heh.

A Republican won the Knox County District 9 County Commission seat, South Knoxville. We have to wonder if the Independent candidate hurt the Democratic candidate. If the voters who selected the Independent voted Democratic the Democratic candidate would have one. Keep that in mind ya'll when voting for President. Don't want to elect the MAGA man.

Topics:
Tamara Shepherd's picture

Board of Ed, Second District

Submitted by Tamara Shepherd on Fri, 2024/08/02 - 8:57am.

I saw outrage on FB last night that Jennifer Owen, incumbent BOE rep in the Second District who had run as an independent, lost her race to newcomer Anne Templeton, who ran as a Dem.

The outrage was that Templeton has her child/children enrolled in a private school locally.

This is my district, but I hadn't realized that, either, and I do agree it should have (unofficially) disqualified Templeton for this position as policymaker for our public school system.

Tamara Shepherd's picture

Disclaimer

Submitted by Tamara Shepherd on Fri, 2024/08/02 - 9:08am.

You probably wonder that I, as closely as I followed public ed issues for 20 years, hadn't known this, either. My disclaimer is that I haven't followed public ed issues much at all in recent years, especially since my daughter left KCS (and the teaching profession) in 2021.

She and I both consider public ed in TN to now be a lost cause, for several years now.

jbr's picture

Several Tennessee incumbents lost in Thursday's Republican prima

Submitted by jbr on Sat, 2024/08/03 - 2:37am.

Scarbrough's campaign was marked by around $14,400 in aggregate contributions by the Team Kid PAC — a group that gave money to candidates who either advocated for universal school voucher proposals or did not speak against them.

Several Tennessee incumbents lost in Thursday's Republican primary elections

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.

TN Progressive

TN Politics

Knox TN Today

Local TV News

News Sentinel

    State News

    Wire Reports

    Lost Medicaid Funding

    To date, the failure to expand Medicaid/TennCare has cost the State of Tennessee ? in lost federal funding. (Source)

    Search and Archives