Chism goes ALL IN with Matt Kuhn

Yes, I have been watching too much of the World Series of Poker on ESPN, what was your clue?

Late Thursday night, the Flyer's Jackson Baker released a straw poll apparently taken Monday night by the MSDIA/DFM delegates, which had the followng results:

David Cocke: 6
Cherry Davis: 0
Talut El-Amin: 0
Matt Kuhn: 29
Joe Young: 19
Undecided: 3

As a result, MSDIA/DFM has decided to throw their weight behind Matt Kuhn, who has worked for several campaigns, and served as SCDP Treasurer under 2001-2003 Chair Gale Jones Carson (full disclosure - I sat on that ExecCom and voted for him for that office).

Shortly after midnight, I received this email from Gale regarding the candidacy of Cherry Davis, who did poorly with the Coalition vote:

I have been asked to e-mail the message below to the 2005 Shelby County Democratic Party's Reorganization Convention partipants.

Five people were vying to serve as the local Party's chairman: Cherry Davis, Matt Kuhn, David Cocke, A. Talut El-Amin and Joe Young.

In the spirit of unity, Cherry Davis is withdrawing from the race and throwing her support behind Matt Kuhn. Her hope is that good Democrats will leave the Convention Saturday, July 23, 2005, as a unified Party that will be working towards getting Democrats elected in the 2006 election cycle.

Registration for the convention will begin at 9 and end 9:45 and the convention will begin at 10 a.m. All activities will be at the same location as the June 25th Democratic Party Caucuses, at the University of Memphis - University Center. Free parking will again be provided in the garage off of Zach Curlin Drive. See you Saturday morning!

Gale Jones Carson

As South Knox Bubba might have said, OK, then. I have felt all along that it might well come to this. I even said so in a post below.


Various posters to this blog have suggested that the Cocke forces had infiltrated the Coalition camp to pick off potential ExecCom members; however, 6 delegates out of 57 isn't that much of an infiltration unless all 6 are elected to the ExecCom on Saturday morning.

Well, we are approximately 32 hours from registration as I write this early Friday morning and we will have an interesting convention, to say the least.