The TN Republican Party State Executive Committee met tonight via “free conference call”. The issue for the Committee to decide was Gina Oster‘s primary challenge of Eddie Mannis as the Republican candidate for TN State House District 18.
After Oster’s five minutes and Mannis 6.5 minutes, a motion was made to disqualify Mannis. The rationale for the motion to disqualify is that TN State law and the Republican by-laws are in conflict. When the SEC voted on April 4, 2020 to disqualify Mannis. That decision by the SEC was overturned by the State Republican Chairman when he received letters vouching for Mannis from Congressman Tim Burchett, State Senator Richard Briggs and Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs. Mannis was a disqualified candidate.
Should he be victorious on November 3, Early Voting October 14-29 to Democrat Virginia Couch he could and likely would be challenged by the TN Democrat Party and unable to be seated in the State House.
Former State Senator Victor Ashe in this story published online Sunday here that Knoxville SEC Members Jane Chedester and Michele Carringer had committed to Mannis. Republican Chairman Scott Golden announced this meeting was subject to the TN Open Meetings Law, the Tennessee Conservative Union has already raised the question in a Facebook post about that irregularity, screen shot below.
Mannis in his defense said he has contributed to failed 2018 Governor candidate Randy Boyd, former United States Senator Bob Corker and Tim Burchett. The vote to leave Mannis on the ballot was 43-18.
The 43 members were, source Jennifer Hamblen from Facebook.
“SEC Members who voted against President Trump tonight are:
Paul Chapman District 1Â [email protected]
Rob Ailey District 2 [email protected]
Cindy Hatcher District 2 [email protected]
Todd Fowler District 3 [email protected]
Matthew Johnson District 4 [email protected]
Linda Buckles District 4 [email protected]
Scott Smith Dis 5 [email protected]
Amy Jones Dis 5 [email protected]
Michele Carringer Dis 6 [email protected]
James Corcoran Dis 7 [email protected]
Jane Chedester Dis 7 [email protected]
David Bishop Dis 8 [email protected]
Betty Fain Dis 8 [email protected]
John Stanberry Dis 9 [email protected]
Ken Meyer Dis 10 [email protected]
Emily Beaty Dis 10 [email protected]
Bobby Wood Dis 11 [email protected]
Tina Benkiser Dis 11 [email protected]
Randy Ellis Dis 12 [email protected]
Liz Holliway Dis 12 [email protected]
Adam Coggin Dis 13 [email protected]
Mike Callahan Dis 15 [email protected]
Beth Cox Dis 15 ( Just sworn in Sat. Unbelievable)
Jerry Anderson Dis 16 [email protected]
Joanne Davis Dis 16 [email protected]
Chris Hughes(Also Chairman of the Bylaws Committee so what loophole do you see not getting closed) Dis 18 [email protected]
Maria Stewart Dis 18 [email protected]
Ron McDow Dis 20 [email protected]
Robert Duvall Dis 21 [email protected]
Joel Wallace Dis 22 [email protected]
Sharon Grimes Dis 22 [email protected]
Steve Allbrooks Dis 23 [email protected]
Gary Kee Dis 24 [email protected]
Larry Hillis Dis 25 [email protected]
Jai Templeton Dis 26 [email protected]
Kathy Bryson Dis 26 [email protected]
Steve Maroney Dis 27 [email protected]
Shannon Haynes Dis 27 [email protected]
Jim Looney Dis 28 [email protected]
Tina McElravey Dis 29 [email protected]
Peggy Larkin Dis 31 [email protected]
Charlotte Kelley Dis 32 [email protected]
Charlotte Bergmann Dis 33 SECCharlotte Bergmann [email protected]”
