Talk:Dan Kuykendall

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References for the dumspter story would be nice. Rlquall 02:48, 13 Jun 2005 (UTC)

No all-Republican election commissions in Tennessee

No Tennessee election commission is or ever has been all-Republican. Until 1971, the law declared that there would be three members from the majority party and two from the minority party, with the party of the governor being the "majority", which worked well from a Democratic standpoint, as all governors elected between 1922 and 1970 were Democrats. In 1970, Republican Winfield Dunn was elected governor, but a Democratic majority was returned to the General Assembly. Almost immediately upon its being convened in 1971, it voted to redefine "majority" as being the party with a majority of both houses of the General Assembly combined. This has been a Democratic majority until the present. Thusly, there has never been an all-Republican, or even Republican-majority, election commission in Tennessee. What the Shelby County Election Commission may have been at the time is all-white; i'm not really sure of its racial makeup at the time. I'm correcting this, but will admit that it is possible that one or more white Democrats of the era might well have preferred a Congressman of a different party but the same race to one of the same party but a differnt race; however that's a diffent matter than the erroneous story given here up till now. Rlquall 02:42, 20 April 2006 (UTC)