Kurita Makes Senate Campaign Official

(Today/yesterday) Clarksville State Senator Rosalind Kurita officially filed her papers to run in the Democratic primary to fill the Senate seat Bill Frist plans to leave.

Kurita is a registered nurse and says she would use her work experience to form legislation that provides better healthcare solutions for Americans. Kurita says she also wants to focus on reducing domestic dependence on foreign oil and keeping jobs in the U.S.

“Nothing in this world is free. Somebody pays for it, and in this instance, the person who has paid for it has been the American worker, and it’s time for us to really refocus that this is a nation of souls. It’s not a multinational company whose purpose is to increase somebody’s bottom line. What we need to be doing is to be making sure that the American worker has an opportunity to provide for their family.”

Kurita will face Congressman Harold Ford Junior in the August democratic primary. Ford has raised more than six times the amount of Kurita’s campaign. Kurita says that it takes more than money to win a Senate seat and boasts that her working-class roots connect her to more Tennesseans.