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What you don’t know could hurt you!
Voter Beware – asking the right questions.

What you don’t know could hurt you.

There’s an old saying that what you don’t know could hurt you and when it comes to elections, nothing could be truer. What you don’t know could “hurt” you, or at least hurt the values you hold and that you want to see guide your nation, state and community.

 

For example, did you know that incumbent 7th District Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn has a Republican Party primary challenger in Tom Leatherwood?  Did you know that there are six Democrats battling it out to face Republican Lamar Alexander on the ballot for U.S. Senate in November (not including the six Independents)?  Did you know that Congressman Steve Cohen faces two Democratic challengers and three Republicans are vying against each other to take on Congressman Lincoln Davis?  Did you know that there are some very hotly contested primaries taking place around the state in connection with the state legislature?

 

But more importantly, do you know that early voting for these races starts this Friday, July 18!

If you are like many Tennesseans, you’ve been paying more attention to the price of gas and groceries, the threat of war with Iran, and the latest information on Brett Favre’s retirement (okay, maybe not that last one unless you’re a big football fan) than you have to the August 7 election.

 

But these races are important.  If you don’t vote in the primaries, then your right to vote will be diminished because a small minority of voters will have determined what choices you will have in November. And in fact, in some cases, once the primary is over, the election is all but over except for the shouting in November.  In many races, because of gerrymandering, districts are either so Republican or so Democratic that there is no general election opponent.

 

But voting without any information is a problem too.  So, to help you sort through where some of the state legislative candidates stand on the issues, The Family Action Council of Tennessee has prepared a list of questions you might want to ask. You can find these questions at our website.    So, get the questions and find out where your local legislative candidates stand.  If you don’t know who may be running for the state legislature, then you can link here to your local election commission where you should be able to see a sample ballot on which the candidates’ names will be printed.

 

Voter Beware – asking the right questions.

They say that “knowledge is power.”  And in politics that can certainly be true.   What many politicians hope is that voters don’t know too much.  That is particularly true when it comes to the pro-life/abortion issue in Tennessee.  If you care about the Life issue, you might want to examine how your legislative candidates answer some of the questions that FACT has put together on its web page.

 

For example, in the last session, there was a major push to pass Senate Joint Resolution (SJR) 127 which would allow the people to vote on language to our state Constitution that would once again make it neutral on the issue of abortion.  Many legislators will tell you they are pro-life. Many will say they are “for” SJR 127.  But that isn’t enough.

 

If you care about the passage of SJR 127, you need to find out if your legislative candidates are willing to vote to bring the resolution straight to the floor for a vote if it bogs down in a Committee or Subcommittee.  A number of legislators will tell you that they will vote for SJR 127, but what they don’t tell you is the qualifying statement “if it ever gets to the floor.”  In other words, what they will not tell you is that they will not vote to bring it to the floor, and what they hope is that you don’t know enough to ask that question.  Nice side-stepping, huh?   

 

Another example is the issue of the House Speaker.  Some legislators hope you won’t ask if they have voted for or will vote for a Speaker that  is decidedly pro-choice.  But this is important.  The Speaker in each Chamber decides who to appoint to that Chamber’s committees (or in the House to Subcommittees) and thus the Speaker determines what political philosophy will dominate the issues before the committees. 

 

It has been well chronicled that SJR 127 has died four times in a House Subcommittee that is decidedly pro-abortion based on the appointments to that Subcommittee made by pro-choice House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh.  If you want to know more about how that Subcommittee process has worked in the House and who consistently votes to bring SJR 127 to the House floor for a vote, a website, www.LifePetition.org will give you all the information you need to know.

 

So, when you go to vote, make sure you’ve asked your questions as many ways as you can.  Some legislators are banking on the fact you won’t know enough to ask the right question.

 

By David Fowler

Family Action Council of Tennessee, Inc.
2479 Murfreesboro Road, No. 362
Nashville, TN  37217-3554
615-469-4209

info@FACTn.org

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