Tennvoterguide.com Creator Craig Huey Highlights Williamson and Davidson County Local Election Wins and Losses

Live from Music Row Monday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. – host Leahy welcomed California refugee and the creator of tennvoterguide.com, Craig Huey, to the newsmaker line to review Tuesday night’s local election winners and losers in Williamson and Davidson counties.

Leahy: We are joined on our newsmaker line now by our good friend Craig Huey, author of tennvoterguide.com. It’s for conservative voters who want to vote for their values.

Well, Craig, Williamson County, Davidson County results last night were sort of a mixed bag. How did your endorsed candidates do in Williamson County?

Huey: Michael, it was a mixed bag, and there were some surprises. And when you have candidates running, especially ones who have not had experience before and really don’t have a lot of money and experience running against incumbents, it becomes very hard to win an election.

But the mixed bag is that some of them won, and some of them lost. And it’s the type of thing when we take a look at these local elections, they have a powerful impact.

Just look at Williamson County and the problem with the forced masking at the schools, and the problem with the curriculum, you would have thought that the conservatives within Williamson County, one of the most conservative counties in the entire United States, would have gone out en masse and to have thrown out anyone who would not have tried to change that curriculum and be able to re-establish great education and conservative principles within the school. But that did not happen. Now there was some good news and some bad news.

Leahy: I need some good news. Give me some good news.

Yes, Every Kid

Huey: Let me start with the good news that isn’t great news. The good news is that a group of people in Williamson County rose up and did something. They found candidates to run and they actually got out the vote. They’ve got to do better. They’ve got to get more organized.

Leahy: So what about the races, though? Let’s talk about which of your endorsed candidates won? Let’s start maybe with County Commission.

Huey: Sure. Let’s take a look at District 5. We endorsed Mary Smith. And Mary won over an incumbent, Tommy Little. And it is very hard to go against the establishment, against the business community who usually backs the establishment, against the infrastructure of the Republican get-along, compromised RINO-type Republicans.

Leahy: Mary Smith in the Williamson County District 5 for County Commission was sort of, I don’t know if you’d call her an upset victor, but she was an endorsed candidate who defeated the incumbent there, Tommy Little. Who are the other winners there? Was it Greg Sanford?

Huey: Yes. And then take a look at District 8. You have another incumbent that lost. An incumbent is not supposed to lose. It was a great win.

Leahy: So the incumbent in District 8 who lost was with Jerry Rainey, is that right? Jerry Rainey and Barbara Sturgeon. And we endorsed her. Drew Torres, we endorsed him.

Leahy: So, Drew and Barb won. So you had victories in the District 8 County Commission. Your endorsed candidates. Any other bright notes on the Williamson County Commission?

Huey: No. I think those were the most surprising. But here’s one of the key things: When I look at these results, get this, Michael, these good candidates that did lose, they lost by between 100 to 200 votes.

Leahy: Almost made it, right?

Huey: Almost made it. One of the failures I found in Tennessee is that the churches don’t get involved. You get one church, two churches, that candidate would have won. If you had had some people doing some digital marketing to build a database and go out and then get those people to the poll with a get-out-the-vote campaign, just like the organized Democrats do, they would have won.

Leahy: So let’s talk about the school board in Williamson County. Tennvoterguide.com endorsed Dan Cash. He won District 2.

Huey: He sure did.

Leahy: In District 4, however, the incumbent, Josh Brown, defeated your endorsed candidate, Elliott Franklin. What happened there?

Huey: That was so sad. And again, that was about 200 votes. You’re running against the incumbent. Elliott would have been such a great school board member.

He was an awesome spokesman for parental rights. He stood against the curriculum. If anything, he should have won, if it was really the uprising we’re seeing in other parts of the county.

Leahy: In District 12, your endorsed candidate, Jamie Lima, did not win. Remember there were six seats up this time for the school board for a total of 12. But I guess you did okay in District 8, right? Did Donna Clements win there?

Huey: Yes. We had a victory there. It’s a scattered victory. And I guess the thing to think of is that Williamson County should be a conservative county. One of the most conservative counties in the nation, and so few people voted.

Leahy: So let me ask you this, though. But in terms of the actual results, two out of four of your endorsed candidates in the Republican Party, you endorsed four out of the six for Williamson County Board of Education.

Two out of four won. Two lost. Then you’ve got two candidates in the 6th district. Deborah Pace, Independent, will be in the general election in August, and then Doc Holladay, Independent for the general election in District 10. Why did they not run in the Republican primary?

Huey: Most Independents are Democrats who know they probably won’t win with the Democrat behind their name. In their cases, they all have their own reason as to why they didn’t do Republican. It’s a surprise to me, because even if you’re not a Republican, you run as a Republican in Tennessee.

Listen to the interview:

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Tune in weekdays from 5:00 – 8:00 a.m. to The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy on Talk Radio 98.3 FM WLAC 1510. Listen online at iHeart Radio.
Photo “Craig Huey” by Craig Huey. Background Photo “Voting Booths” by Tim Evanson. CC BY-SA 2.0.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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  1. Nancy

    How about the gop nominate candidates in a Davidson county? There a lot of conservatives like me that live in Nashville! The one party rule in Davidson county has not worked out very well for the public or the liberals!!!

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