The Rogersville Review has this story which in part references the apparent Republican double standard in kicking a young woman off the Republican ballot for First District United States Congress and leaving on the TN State House District 18 Republican ballot, 2019 failed Knoxville Mayoral candidate Eddie Mannis, who in the March 3rd Presidential Primary cast a Democrat ballot.
Mannis has Tim Burchett, Richard Briggs and Glenn Jacobs vouch for him. The Republican State Executive Committee voted to take Mannis off , but Chairman Scott Golden left Mannis on. Four white guys protecting another white guy. While the perception (right or wrong) as the he man woman haters club protects its crony dude, kicking off a woman.
Oh and by the way, Mannis only faces a woman, Realtor and Community Cedar Bluff Activist Gina Oster.
Is this an anti female bias? If it looks like it, sounds like it, it likely is, in the court of public opinion.
The part of the article about Mannis, below
“It can’t be both ways”
Williams expressed her frustration over the fact that Eddie Mannis, who recently announced his candidacy as a Republican for Tennessee House District 18, was determined to be a bona fide Republican though he has donated to Democratic campaigns in the past and voted as a Democrat in the last statewide primary.
Mannis’s candidacy was challenged just as Williams’s was; however, the Tennessee Star reported on April 7 that Republican Congressman for the U.S. Second District Tim Burchett, his wife Kelly and former Republican Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam vouched for Mannis.
Though members of the SEC voted not to accept Mannis’s candidacy, Golden accepted Mannis’s candidacy and will allow him to run as Republican.
“It can’t be both ways,” Williams told the Review. “They either need to take Mannis off of the ballot, or they need to put me on.”
“Eddie Mannis has a 14-year history of voting in Republican primaries,” Golden told the Review in response. “He has voted in two recent Republican primaries. He voted in the Presidential Preference Campaign in 2016 and the Governor’s election of 2018, and he was vouched for by Congressman Tim Burchett, Senator Richard Briggs and Mayor Glen Jacobs. He’s also not running for Congress, he’s running for State Representative. One is running for State Representative to serve in Nashville, and one is running for Congress. As the districts get bigger, the need for vouchers goes up.”
