NASHVILLE — Tennessee Democrats on Saturday quickly selected two unpledged presidential “super delegates” for this summer’s Democratic National Convention but then bogged down for hours over filling other statewide delegate slots.
Democratic Executive Committee members wrangled over competing slates of delegates and quarreled over “representation goals” based on gender, race, age and sexual orientation.
“I think our goals are going too far when you get into personal and private lives,” griped executive committee member Bill Bassett of Gallatin as he and colleagues debated selecting two representatives of the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender community as required under Tennessee Democrats’ diversity rules.
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Andy Sher is a Nashville-based staff writer covering Tennessee state government and politics for the Times Free Press. A Washington correspondent from 1999-2005 for the Times Free Press, Andy previously headed up state Capitol coverage for The Chattanooga Times, worked as a state Capitol reporter for The Nashville Banner and was a contributor to The Tennessee Journal, among other publications. Andy worked for 17 years at The Chattanooga Times covering police, health care, county government, ...
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