Rep. Scott DesJarlais (R-TN) has won the Republican nomination for Congress by a slim 38 votes, defeating challenger state Sen. Jim Tracy.
The Associated Press reported Monday that DesJarlais won by the slim victory. Tracy does not plan to contest the results and concede the race to DesJarlais.
The race had been extremely tight and after election night the two candidates had been separated by just a few votes, as few as 35 at times.
DesJarlais was the socially conservative congressman who was at the center of a 2012 scandal involving him pushing his mistress, who was his patient at the time, to seek an abortion.
After election night in the primary a recount seemed a possibility and that the race, which wasn’t called that night, could easily flip to Tracy.
Tennessee’s 4th Congressional District is not expected to fall into Democratic control so DesJarlais is extremely likely to cruise through the general election and stay in Congress.
Cults often become corrupt because the sheep seldom question their shepherds. Self-correcting mechanisms that punish the corrupt disappear.
For most of the weekend, the NYT’s homepage stacked three legit GOP corrupt governor stories around slots 3, 4 & 5 on the news lead’s left column: McConnell, Christy and Perry. Not sure how badly this hurts the Republican brand, but it sure does mean bad things for governance.
Rep. DesJarlais is that scandal ridden member of Congress that should have been defeated but because of their mindset, the Teapublicans won’t abandon their candidate. They look beyond the surface to that which they want to see, Rep. DesJarlais’ complete obstructionism of the administration’s agenda to help the poor, disabled, immigrant, elderly and of course the unemployed.
Rep. DesJarlais has voted consistently against any bill that will further the agenda of the people rather than the corporations which have subsidized his continuing “existence” in Congress. Should he be reelected by the people of that district it would be a shame, shame enough to ensure that the people of that district would not be getting adequate representation in Congress.
Ah the party of Christian values once again presents us with a fine role model. He’s probably having a secret affair with a set of 12 year old albino conjoined twins because Jesus told him to.
Pass the animal stimulant please.
“Ah am a good Christian.” Who will vote for the lying sack of excrement who violated professional ethics by by sexually involved with a patient, who then pressured her to have an abortion, in spite of claiming to be pro-life and who, assuming he wins a second term will collect a nice fat pension from the government he will spend his time keeping from functioning. All because of ignorant, fearful, self-righteous hypocrites, also known as ‘good Christians.’
DesJarlais wins GOP Primary “with” 38 votes means that he got only 38 votes. Actually, he won “by” 38 votes.