Today is the day which will determine if the political career of Brian Kelsey will continue as Germantown, Cordova, and East Memphis go to the polls to choose a State Senator for District 31 in a special election today:
When early voting ended the day before Thanksgiving, just 4,906 residents from Bartlett, Cordova, Germantown and parts of Memphis had voted in the state Senate District 31 general election and in the House District 83 primary. That's 3.2 percent of the voters.
Election officials are predicting between 8,000 to 10,000 out of an estimated 151,000 registered voters in those districts will actually cast a ballot.
Some of the trash talk from the Left in the blogosphere in West Tennessee about how badly Brian Kelsey is going to be beaten today has become so ridiculous that one can only deduce that the Democrats know they are going to lose the election in Shelby County today, and they might lose it by a wide margin. For all of the talk about Brian Kelsey and his "antics," the thing that makes Kelsey unique is that when Brian Kelsey tells you what his principles and beliefs are, he turns around and votes the way that he tells you he believes.
Voters and citizens have complained since time immemorial about those politicians who vote in certain ways merely to win elections, yet when a leader comes along who votes his or her principles and doesn't lie about it or try and cover it up, that person takes the heat for their "antics." With Brian Kelsey, what voters see is what they get. No artificial flavors, colors, preservatives, or positions. The Left isn't afraid of "antic" from Kelsey, but that he will vote his conscience, and that election to the Tennessee Senate will give Kelsey a place in Tennessee politics for many years to come.
Brian Kelsey may be a bit wet behind the ears, but he does know something of the important political virtue of loyalty. He remembers not only the voters who sent him to Nashville but also not to ditch the ones who brought him to the dance. Voters and Republican activists understand this, and that is why so many have stepped forward to support Brian Kelsey, and why his defeat tonight would be considered a major Democratic upset.
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