Knoxville Journalist Hubert Smith forwarded an email to me this afternoon that he received. It seems that Billy Stokes a fan and supporter of Democrats is going to challenge Ray Jenkins in the Republican Primary of 2014 for Knox County Circuit Court Judge Division I. You can read this earlier post about the public breadcrumbs of Democrat support that Stokes has bestowed upon several Democrats.

Stokes press release discussed how his work has primarily been in circuit court. The typical political fluff of a political announcement press release. The LOL moment was this partial line, “..and has served in the Tennessee governor’s cabinet and on senior staff.” Stokes left out that it was Governor Don Sundquist, the most unpopular Governor because of his heavy handed income tax proposal. Fortunately the legislature and the people won and the income tax proposal were rejected.

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