Sanford: It’s time for squabbling Democrats to put aside their differences
Otis Sanford
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Local and state Democrats are again squabbling among themselves at a critical juncture in the 2024 election calendar.
It seems to happen with the regularity of a total lunar eclipse — except eclipses are all about an alignment. And alignments are pretty rare among Tennessee Democrats.
The latest tiff came last week when state party chair Hendrell Remus — backed by others in state party leadership — removed Shelby County’s party chair, Lexie Carter, and installed a new four-member team to boost turnout for the Nov. 5 general election. I’m told Remus and other state executive committee members were not happy with the 12% Shelby County turnout during the Aug. 1 primary and feared not enough was being done to get voters to the polls in November.
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