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Friday, August 25, 2006

Another black eye for the Tennessee GOP

nashvillepost.com's Ken Whitehouse just broke a story minutes ago
about the arrest of Shirley Ward, president of the Tennessee
Federation of Republican Women, by the TBI for voter fraud.

Ward, according to Whitehouse, turned herself in to authorities who
are charging her with voter fraud stemming from allegations that she
knowingly voted in the wrong district in a Tipton County Commission
race to influence the outcome of that race.

Ward's arrest is problematic for the GOP across the state on numerous
fronts - primarily at the grassroots level.

To have the president of a prominent statewide Republican activist
group arrested for voter fraud will no doubt sting throughout the
ranks of the Tennessee GOP.

The impression on voters who read and hear of the arrest and
subsequent stories about the allegations of voter fraud will be
anything but positive.

Those same voters will begin going to the polls to vote in less than
eight weeks.

The arrest may also be an embarrassment to Ward's son, Jeff, who heads
TeamGOP.org and who recently endorsed Bob Corker for the U.S. Senate.

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And on and on and on

Harry