From the Memphis Flyer:
The questions all took some such form as “Would you tend to look favorably on Mike McWherter, knowing he is…” The son of a former governor. Someone who knows business and how the banking system works. A pioneer in the field of green technology. Etc., etc., [...]
From the Coolest Generation:
Well, first off, like Virginia we’ve had a successful and popular Democrat in the executive role for the past 8 years (TN = Phil Bredesen, two terms; VA = Mark Warner and Tim Kahne, back-to-back single terms — VA governors can’t run for re-election), and like [...]
Today was a good day as far as Robin Smith is concerned:
Today, Americans had their first chance to give a reply to Washington, and from places as diverse as the Jersey shore to Southwest Virginia, the message was clear: Stop. Stop wasting our money. Stop driving us further into [...]
Music City Oracle has all the interpretation of the elections in NY, VA and NJ you’ll need tonight:
Here is the best way of understanding the elections. In every gubernatorial election since 1974, Virginia has gone for the party opposite of the holder of the White House. This year will [...]
David Roberts says yes:
So all the money from Gore’s investments is invested in a nonprofit to fight climate change. He’s not “positioned to profit.” He’s not “poised” to become a “billionaire.” The entire premise of the story is false. I’m sure the tiny percentage of readers who make it [...]
From the Kentucky TeeVee:
Bowling Green eye doctor Rand Paul has no political experience, but with the support of the same people who backed his Dad, Texas Congressman Ron Paul, when he ran for president. Rand Paul has now at least pulled even with Secretary of State Trey Grayon in [...]
From Ambinder:
First things first: even in a year when the composition of the electorate is dramatically different than the 2008 presidential election, President Obama’s approval rating in Virginia is 51% among voters surveyed. In New Jersey, it’s 57%. Fewer than half of voters for Bob McDonnell, the Republican gubernatorial [...]
Maryland governor speaks a bit of truth about the modern Republican Party:
“The Republican Party is a little bit at war with themselves, aren’t they,” the Maryland Democrat told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “I mean, they’ve got the right wing of their party and they’ve got the extreme right wing of [...]
James Pinkerton on the likely result of the elections of 2009:
The point here is that the political equivalent of the statistical concept of regression always kicks in after an election: Things are never as good as you hope, nor as bad as you fear. The middling middle triumphs: Hello, [...]
Sean Braisted on why the development in NY-23 aren’t quite as revolutionary or relevant as some might have you believe:
[T]his is only news on a national level because New York’s politics are quite unique. They actually have viable, strong third parties and many candidates often run on more than [...]
The governor told reporters Tuesday that the state did its best to try to persuade GM to keep the [Spring Hill] plant open but that “it was probably always a hopeless quest.”
[...]The local pro-football franchise likes the idea of a new convention center:
The Tennessee Titans front office today announced its support for the Music City Center, the proposed state of the art downtown convention center . Team leaders cite an expanded fan base stimulated by the Music City Center plus [...]
From the illustrious Staff Reports of the CP:
Music City Star trains may be delayed this afternoon due to a suspicious package at the Lebanon Station, Metro Transit Authority officials said.
Lebanon Police are investigating the situation.
[...]So says Sean Braisted:
I know, its scary to think, considering some of the loons in Congress, but its the truth. The founders are deified because they were at the right place and right time, their words are profound because of the longevity of their actions.
The danger with imbuing the [...]
Tom Schaller submits that the results of the gubernatorial races in New Jersey, Virgina and that House race in New York will have little to say about Barack Obama:
No matter what, because of the Hoffman-Scozzfava dustup, Republicans will not win all three of these races. And if Christie loses, [...]
David Oatney columnizes:
Consider a couple of Republican examples of people who have rendered exceptional service in the Legislature. Rep. Mike Bell (R-Cleveland) is now running for the State Senate, but he might not have been able to run for the House at all since he is a home-schooling Dad [...]
Adrienne Royer is tired of everyone hating on conservative women:
Feminists can’t seem to grasp that women on the right have such a differing fundamental philosophy that we will always disagree. What frustrates me is the lack of respect. I may disagree with you, but you do have a right [...]
Dave Flesser rewrote a press release at the Chattanooga Times Free Press. Click here for more:
Tennessee is getting another $12.1 million in federal funds to fund its biggest program ever to help workers who lost their jobs due to foreign trade or competition, the state Department of Labor and [...]
But to get near him you have to obey these rules transmitted on Gannett webspace by Natalia Mielczarek a paid staff writer for the Tennessean newspaper located at 1100 Broadway:
– You have to buy Gore’s new book at the bookstore to receive a number that will determine your place [...]
From a media advisory:
MURFREESBORO – Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam, a Republican candidate for governor, will hold a press availability in Murfreesboro, Tennessee on Thursday, November 5, 2009. Mayor Haslam will use this availability to discuss his plans for making Tennessee the #1 location in the Southeast for growing and retaining [...]
The 4th District congressman admires a picture of his shooting large guns on his phone while a woman yells at him about liberty, tyranny and Obamacare. Very amusing.
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From techPresident:
Google and the Pew Center on the States have been working for years now on something called the Voting Information Project, aimed a solving one of democracy’s most annoying information problems: people, often times, don’t know where to vote, how to vote, and whose names are going to [...]
Chip Forrester has a press release:
“Once again, Republicans have shown Tennesseans why they cannot be trusted,” Forrester said. “I thought they opposed making these records public. Who knows what else they intend to do with that kind of sensitive information.
“Gun owners and anyone else who value their privacy and [...]
A look at the growth:
“The U.S. Department of Agriculture said nearly 200,000 retailers nationwide now accept food stamps, 20 percent more than in 2005.”
[...]The “victory” of a conservative independent over the GOP establishment in New York may have started something:
“I would say it’s the tip of the spear,” said Dick Armey, the former GOP House majority leader who now serves as chairman of FreedomWorks, an organization that has been closely aligned with [...]
I just assumed we already had these but then I’m conspiratorially-minded:
CIA director Leon Panetta got into hot water with Congress, after he revealed an agency program to hunt down and kill terrorists. A recent report from the U.S. military’s Joint Special Operations University argues that the CIA didn’t go [...]
The word from Tom Humphrey’s Humphrey on the Hill blog, a project of the Knoxville News Sentinel which a part of the Scripps family of media properties:
The daily “per diem” expense payments for state legislators have been increased by $14 to $185 under an automatic annual adjustment built into [...]
Say Uncle on the events in NY-23:
The supposed Republican dropped out and endorsed the Democrat. I guess even more than party over country is two-party system over anything. Since the two parties have spent considerable time rigging the game.
[...]Cracked remembers the infamous 2006 ‘Call Me’ ad:
The ad was considered so sleazy that even Bob Corker asked it be pulled off the air as pundits nationwide accused him of race-baiting.
It’s worth noting that the whole Playboy bunny thing was a reference to the fact that Ford had attended [...]
Reading Ayn Rand ain’t no picnic.
Admittedly, I’ve never read Atlas Shrugged. Oh, I’ve tried. It’s been on my reading list for at least 10 years now. I know this hurts my conservative street cred, but Rand is incredibly difficult to get into. With the popularitiy of Rand on the [...]
From the Associated Press:
Gov. Phil Bredesen says the influx of federal stimulus money has “concealed” the extent of Tennessee’s budget woes and he is asking state departments to plan for 6 percent spending cuts when he holds budget hearings later this month.
Bredesen says he will also ask agencies to [...]
Roy Herron would like to know so he can then put you on his email list and send you a bunch of fundraising letters.
[...]Similarities abound between our “Great Recession” and the Great Depression:
“Unfortunately, the current crisis is caused by the same deflationary forces that caused the Great Depression. Monetarists dismiss this argument on the grounds that the money supply has not only not fallen, but in fact has risen sharply. At the [...]
Cup of Joe Powell introduces us to a new term:
The Celebrity Tea Party wing of the GOP is trying hard to make one congressional race in New York mean something, anything and as always the CTP whirls a wildly distorted spin as they yearn for a single victory in [...]
From the Fox affiliate:
In the last 10 days there have been at least three cases of alleged DUI-related deaths across Metro Nashville, the latest involving a three year old boy.
So far this year Metro Police have arrested more than 3100 alleged drunk drivers in Davidson County.
That’s up 11 percent [...]
Student rezoning case go to trial today. Jeff Woods reports:
The trial could last two weeks. The NAACP wants Judge John Nixon to toss out the rezoning plan and order the school system to come up with a new one acceptable to both sides by next summer. Whatever the outcome, [...]
Our governor ain’t paying the debate over an opt-out provision for states in the new health care reform plan no nevermind. He’s got bigger fish to fry:
The Congressional health care plan’s so-called “opt-out provision” isn’t taking Governor Phil Bredesen’s focus off of proposed changes to Medicaid.
Bredesen says he’s most [...]
The Commercial Appeal is not a fan:
Personal PACs provide, among other things, a convenient way for lobbyists to get around one of the restrictions enacted in 2006 — a ban on their contributions to legislative campaign chests.
The end-around is fairly transparent. Although banned from making campaign fund contributions, lobbyists [...]
Our lame duck governor is fixin’ to make a few:
Last year, there was a general agreement that similar cutbacks were inevitable. This time, the Governor predicts they’ll be politically more difficult.
“We’ll be asking for even more major cuts at a time when, hopefully, the economy is coming back [...]
The state Health Commissioner attempts to put us at ease about the swine flu vaccine:
We have assured residents that the safety of the vaccine and the way it is made should not be a concern. The vaccine is licensed and manufactured in the same way as the seasonal vaccine [...]
Television journalist Jamey Tucker discusses the decline:
Next week The Chicago Tribune, LA Times and other news outlets are going to cover the news without using any content from the Associated Press. According to a story by the AP, 180 newspapers have threatened to drop the service.
Cost is obviously the [...]
Mike McWherter does the math in a new fundraising email:
In 524,100 minutes the first polls will open in our great state of Tennessee for the 2010 Election Day!
It’s hard to believe that on this first Tuesday of November, one year from now Tennesseans will head to the polls to [...]
An organization devoted to promoting liberty inside the GOP has come out against the Davidson County GOP for attempting to oust their Ron Paul-supporting First Vice-Chair:
Collins was informed that he will face a hearing where a two-thirds majority can remove him from his post. This effort to remove Collins [...]
Thomas F. O’Connell pens a very personal tract about his reaction to a push to ban gay couples from adopting which would have prevented any unmarried couple from adopting:
Nashville is my hometown, and Tennessee is my home state. As a man who has only so much as kissed [...]
The New York Times takes a look at Al Gore’s relationship with the climate change issue:
Silver Spring Networks is a foot soldier in the global green energy revolution Mr. Gore hopes to lead. Few people have been as vocal about the urgency of global warming and the need to [...]
Aunt B. doesn’t like how are governor tried to help illustrate our America’s health problems by pointing at its fat kids:
Here’s an idea. Bring back recess. Put sidewalks in our cities so that kids can move around their neighborhoods without fear of cars. Make our neighborhoods safe enough [...]
