Where the hell are you?!
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Dear Tennessee Democratic Party,
You should be ashamed. You don't seem to have lifted a finger to field a decent candidate or to stop yet another unqualified candidate from winning the primary. I'm not talking about the grassroots Democrats who work so hard against overwhelming opposition -- I mean the Chair, Roy Herron, his staff and the party leadership. I worked as a volunteer at the party HQ in Nashville years ago. It was a busy place -- election strategy was discussed, they had people dealing with new technologies, they had people who cared. They may not have had very many wins, but that's what happens when you live in a state where the Rs far outnumber the Ds. But at least they were putting up a good fight. Now, however it looks like you have thrown up your hands and accepted defeat: "Why even bother?"
I've looked at the TNDP Facebook page and the TNDP website (maybe someone in the office should, too) -- NOTHING about the primary, NOTHING about the candidates! In the NOTES section of the FB page, the last thing posted was in January 2012 (2012!!); in the BLOG section of the website, there has been nothing posted since June. There is a blog boasting about the TNDP's record breaking fundraiser. What in heaven's name did you do with all that money? It certainly wasn't spent on ad buys or voter education (maybe a PSA telling voters not to simply pick the first name on the list of candidates might have been a good idea?)!
Both the page and the website contain a long list of grievances about the repubs. I share those grievances -- but if you don't present a solution, you just look like, as my grandmother would say, bellyachers.
The party leadership has allowed Tennessee to become, once again, a national laughingstock. You have a choice now. It is the TNDP's primary election. The Executive Committee can vacate the primary results. As it nullified Rosalind Kurita's primary win years ago, it can remove Charlie Brown as the primary winner now. Do the right thing. Do something!
P.S. In case you haven't read it, here is a link to the new Democratic gubernatorial candidate's letter to the editor. Maybe someone in your office could have found this and posted it to the website or FB page BEFORE the primary?