Thursday, September 07, 2006
Williamson County: TN's new Blue?
I've been a bit under the weather; thus, posts may - may - be a tad sporadic for the next few days.
Something crossed my desk recently that I neglected to discuss in a timely fashion. Last week's Nashville Scene ran a feature on one Mary Parker, a Democrat who hopes to replace Republican Jim Bryson in the State Senate.
Bryson's District 23 seat is perhaps the safest GOP seat in the State Senate. Thus, Ms. Parker's campaign is nothing short of a Quixotic adventure. Try telling that to Mike Williams ...
Mr. Williams, a Democrat who represented a portion of Williamson County in the State House a few years back, is giddily awaiting Parker's inevitable besting of her Republican opponent, Jack Johnson. According to the Scene, Williams is of the opinion that "Williamson County residents are less beholden to the GOP than [Republican Party] leaders claim."
When Williams was first elected to the State House, some 15 years ago, Williamson County was just beginning to absorb voters who were fleeing Nashville's increasing property taxes and crime. Young Urban Professionals were also just beginning to build dream homes in Williamson County as well. Unfortunately for Democrats like Mike Williams, conservative as they may've claimed to be, newcomers were card-carrying, yard sign-displayin' members of the GOP.
I say all this to implore those persons who agree with Mike Williams' ridiculous assertion that there "are more independents than Republicans [in Williamson County]" to cogitate upon this fact (courtesy of the Scene):
Of the 40 countywide partisan officers—judges, county commissioners and so forth—all but two are Republicans. Those two, incidentally, aren't Democrats either. They ran and won as independents.
Mary Parker is toast ... you read it here first.
Something crossed my desk recently that I neglected to discuss in a timely fashion. Last week's Nashville Scene ran a feature on one Mary Parker, a Democrat who hopes to replace Republican Jim Bryson in the State Senate.
Bryson's District 23 seat is perhaps the safest GOP seat in the State Senate. Thus, Ms. Parker's campaign is nothing short of a Quixotic adventure. Try telling that to Mike Williams ...
Mr. Williams, a Democrat who represented a portion of Williamson County in the State House a few years back, is giddily awaiting Parker's inevitable besting of her Republican opponent, Jack Johnson. According to the Scene, Williams is of the opinion that "Williamson County residents are less beholden to the GOP than [Republican Party] leaders claim."
When Williams was first elected to the State House, some 15 years ago, Williamson County was just beginning to absorb voters who were fleeing Nashville's increasing property taxes and crime. Young Urban Professionals were also just beginning to build dream homes in Williamson County as well. Unfortunately for Democrats like Mike Williams, conservative as they may've claimed to be, newcomers were card-carrying, yard sign-displayin' members of the GOP.
I say all this to implore those persons who agree with Mike Williams' ridiculous assertion that there "are more independents than Republicans [in Williamson County]" to cogitate upon this fact (courtesy of the Scene):
Of the 40 countywide partisan officers—judges, county commissioners and so forth—all but two are Republicans. Those two, incidentally, aren't Democrats either. They ran and won as independents.
Mary Parker is toast ... you read it here first.
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Thursday, September 07, 2006 
