Democrat and I am Tennessee Green voting for Isa Infante [View all]

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I won't be voting for the A-B-C Tennessee Democratic gubernatorial candidate Charlie Brown...

Brown's 2014 primary election demonstrates a failure of the Tennessee Democratic Party (State Executive Committee) to tighten up eligibility requirements for candidates seeking primary election as Democratic candidates for state and federal offices.

I am thinking that the Tennessee Democratic Party State Executive Committee needs to implement higher filing fees, requiring a greater number of nomination petition signers to place a candidate on the Democratic Primary ballot, and a "1 + 1 rule" that would require candidates seeking primary election as Democratic candidates for district state and federal offices to obtain the simple majority endorsement of the local Democratic Party county organization of the candidate's legal residence plus the simple majority endorsement of any other local Democratic Party county organization within the senate or house district wherein the candidate is wishing to represent during the previous year prior to a primary election.

For individuals seeking election as a Democratic Party candidate for a statewide office, such as Governor of Tennessee or U.S. Senator, then the 1 + 1 rule could be expanded to a 1 + 3 rule, wherein a candidate on the Democratic Primary ballot would need to obtain the simple majority endorsement of the local Democratic Party county organization of the candidate's legal residence plus the simple majority endorsement of any other three Democratic Party county organizations in Tennessee (i.e.: obtain the simple majority endorsement of a local Democratic Party county organization from each of the Three Grand Divisions --- East, Middle, and West --- across Tennessee during the previous year prior to a primary election.

It is important that we all vote during the Tennessee November 2014 general elections for a gubernatorial candidate listed on the ballot as to raise the total number of votes needed to enact any or all of the four proposed amendments to the Tennessee Constitution...a higher voter turnout means that the proponents will need to either/and

1) get more people to turn out to vote "yes" for their constitution amendments, and;
2) ask their constitution amendment supporters not to vote for their own party gubernatorial candidate.

I am thinking that Charlie Brown is a plant by the Tennessee Republican Party to discourage Democratic voters from voting for a party candidate, and thereby lowering the total number of gubernatorial votes needed to pass the four proposed Tennessee Constitutional Amendments.

I will be voting during the Tennessee November 2014 general elections Isa Infante as to both protect and preserve our Tennessee State Constitution against the proposed Amendments 1 through 4 and to elect an individual as the next Tennessee Governor who will work to advance the lives of every day Tennessee citizens.