What's on the ballot today? - August 7, 2014
August 7, 2014
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There is drama, scandal and whimsy on display up and down the ballot in the Tennessee primary elections this Thursday.
Voters in Chattanooga decide on a veto referendum that could overturn a city council ordinance allowing health benefits for domestic partners of city employees. A "yes" vote approves the ordinance; a "no" vote rejects the ordinance, which is the desired outcome of the referendum petitioners.
Sen. Lamar Alexander is facing six challengers in Thursday's Republican primary, with state Rep. Joe Carr receiving many key tea party endorsements. In Tennessee's 4th District, scandal-plagued incumbent Rep. Scott DesJarlais has raised less than half the campaign contributions of one of his six challengers, state Sen. Jim Tracy.
In the Republican gubernatorial race, candidate Mark "Coonrippy" Brown is running with the sole intent of retrieving his pet raccoon. Rebekah, the raccoon, was seized by the state's Wildlife Resources Agency after he filed to apply for a permit.[1]
Twenty school board elections are taking place in Tennessee for a total of 86 seats. Combined, those 20 districts served 609,121 K-12 students during the 2010-2011 school year.[2] In the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools race, charter schools and Common Core are the major issues dividing candidates.[3]
In the state legislative primaries, 116 seats are up for election: 17 senate seats and 99 house seats. Of these, 29 incumbents are facing primary opposition, including seven state senators and 21 state representatives.
The state's judicial elections conclude today, following months of drama over the retention of three state supreme court justices. A conservative effort to oust the justices led by Speaker Ron Ramsey sparked a partisan battle for the courts and bountiful spending on both sides. In total, there are 301 judicial candidates facing election, including 153 incumbents.
Tennessee
- See also: Tennessee elections, 2014
Congress
Local measures
School boards
- Blount County Schools
- Four out of seven seats on the board are up for election
- Bradley County Schools
- Three out of seven seats on the board are up for election
- Clarksville-Montgomery County School System
- Four out of seven seats on the board are up for election
- Hamblen County Schools
- Three out of seven seats on the board are up for election
- Hamilton County Schools
- Five out of nine seats on the board are up for election
- Jackson-Madison County School System
- Five out of nine seats on the board are up for election
- Knox County Schools
- Five out of nine seats on the board are up for election
- Maury County Schools
- Six out of 11 seats on the board are up for election
- Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools
- Four out of nine seats on the board are up for election
- Putnam County Schools
- Three out of six seats on the board are up for election
- Robertson County Schools
- Two out of six seats on the board are up for election
- Rutherford County Schools
- Four out of seven seats on the board are up for election
- Sevier County Schools
- Three out of five seats on the board are up for election
- Shelby County Schools
- Seven out of nine seats on the board are up for election
- Sullivan County Schools
- Three out of seven seats on the board are up for election
- Sumner County Schools
- Six out of 11 seats on the board are up for election
- Tipton County Schools
- Four out of nine seats on the board are up for election
- Washington County Schools
- Six out of nine seats on the board are up for election
- Williamson County Schools
- Six out of 12 seats on the board are up for election
- Wilson County Schools
- Three out of five seats on the board are up for election
State executives
State legislatures
State courts
See also
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- ↑ UPI, "Man running for Tennessee governor to get his raccoon back," January 8, 2014
- ↑ National Center for Education Statistics, "Elementary/Secondary Information System," accessed March 21, 2014
- ↑ Nashville Public Radio, "Nashville School Board Candidates Wander All Over The Map On Common Core," July 21, 2014
