Total Pageviews

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

East Tennessee Politics


dgrace---dgrace@timesnet.net
Area residents, including Douglass Alumni Association President Doug Releford, listen Tuesday as members of the Sullivan County Election Commission discuss their vote not to reappoint Gena Frye, left, as Sullivan County Administrator of Elections. As is a longtime, common practice in East Tennessee politics, the Republican majority ousted Democrat Frye, the longtime administrator who oversees elections and the election office.