Knox County Democratic Party chair Gloria Johnson has decided to enter the special election for the Sixth Senate District seat vacated last month by former Sen. Jamie Woodson.
Three Republican candidates are running in their party’s primary. Victoria DeFreese, Becky Duncan Massey, or Marilyn Roddy will face Johnson in the November general election. The special election coincides with municipal races in the City of Knoxville.
According to quotes in the linked news article, the search for Democratic Party candidates seems to have turned up nothing until Johnson decided, at nearly the last minute, to jump in.
Unfortunately, Gloria chose to run without actually living in the district. It will be interesting to see what the Knox County election commission has to say when she turns in her petition because according to the TCA:
Title 2 Elections
Chapter 14 Special Elections
Part 2 Vacancies
Tenn. Code Ann. ยง 2-14-204 (2011)
2-14-204. Eligibility to fill vacancy.
Only a qualified voter of the district represented shall be eligible to succeed to the vacant seat.
Good luck to her, if she is actually qualified to run!
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