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"State Senator Kathryn Bowers, the Tennessee Waltz indictee who told reporters after a court hearing last week that she was concerned about her health, announced Monday that she was resigning her office on &amp;#147;medical advice.&amp;#148; Bowers&amp;#146; resignaton comes in time for the local Democratic Party to appoint a successor on the November ballot for her District 33 senate post. The party will have until September 28th to meet and do so, said Jim Kyle, the Democrats&amp;#146; Senate leader and Bowers&amp;#146; Memphis colleague. Kyle also noted that illness and a finding of legal ineligibility were the only two allowable reasons for a certified nominee to exit the ballot. Bowers, whose resignation becomes effective on September 1, is scheduled to make a formal plea in federal court on her extortion case four days later. (For more, go to &lt;a href=http://memphisflyer.com/memphis/Content?oid=oid%3A19123&gt; \"Political Beat\"&lt;/a&gt;.)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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