Davidson County Republican Party leaders filed paperwork this week to hold a Republican primary for the highly coveted seat held by current clerk Vic Lineweaver, who attracted a field of competitors after media reports last year revealed he spent considerable time at his Bellevue house during works [...]
Because “Always bet on Zelenik” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
UPDATE: The press release:
GALLATIN Tenn. – Republican Senate Caucus Chair Diane Black (R-Gallatin) will today begin assembling a campaign for Congress in Tennessee’s 6th District.
“Our country is in trouble and our government is way off track,” [...]
Now this is interesting:
However, a closer look at the source of his campaign funding reveals that Mr. Fincher, along with his supporters, might be part of the problem rather than a possible solution. Over 90 percent of Fincher’s campaign funding came from farming families that have been recipients to [...]
Republican Rand Paul has banked an additional $236,000 for his Senate campaign using the same type of Internet fundraiser that helped finance his father’s presidential race last year.
That money came in on Wednesday in a 1-day fundraiser that pushed Paul’s total contributions to nearly $1.7 million heading [...]
After the revelation today that Sen. Jim Tracy voted in a few Democratic primaries, Tom Humphrey gets to wondering:
It’s not unreasonable to speculate, however, that Politico’s Washington-wise Josh Kraushaar, who posted the item, didn’t just happen to drop by the Bedford County Election Commission office and notice Tracy’s voting [...]
Just how angry is the public with the country’s two leading political parties? Angry enough that the conservative, libertarian-leaning Tea Party movement is more popular than either the Democratic or the Republican parties, according to the latest NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll.
What yanks my chain the most is the hypocrisy. Republicans conveniently forget their own rhetoric when it’s time for funding requests. Yet that’s all we hear from these clowns. “Spending is out of control, blah, blah, snore.”
Spending is a big problem for the GOP. They love [...]
And?
But Tracy’s voting history could become a campaign issue in the Republican primary: Election records from Bedford County show that he voted in six Democratic primaries between 1990-2002, including the 2000 presidential primary between then vice-president Al Gore and Bill Bradley.
During that time period, he voted in only two [...]
The nationals say Wamp’s “bailout problem” is not unique:
While the issue will be wielded against members of both parties throughout the next 11 months, it could be particularly potent in some race-to-the-right GOP primaries. The Time poll showed 71 percent of Republicans and 64 percent of independents opposed to [...]
Sean Braisted wants you to know that “in case anyone out there doesn’t know that Andy Sere is a gay-baiting lying piece of ****.”
CONTEXT: A screenshot from a recent email from National Republican Congressional Spokesman Andy Sere
[...]The Daily News Journal looks forward to who will fill them:
But while Gordon’s seniority will take years to replace, his decision to step aside will create an exciting election next year in the primaries and the general election.
Republican state Sen. Jim Tracy and Lou Ann Zelenik, former chairman of [...]
A message from the Tennessee Democratic Party:
With the recent announcements by Congressmen Bart Gordon and John Tanner that they were retiring from Congress at the end of their current terms, Tennessee Republicans are busy spinning their public relations machine into high gear. They are crisscrossing the state and the [...]
Written by Ken Whitehouse:
According to witnesses, Party’s ominous final words to be etched onto his gravestone were: “Moderate Republicans will resurrect me once they get a load of them crazy-ass tea baggers.”
Party is survived by the cities of Memphis and Nashville. In lieu of flowers, it has been requested [...]
A press release entitled ‘Key Reporters and Republican Leaders across Tennessee Join Zach Wamp in Asking: “What’s Haslam Hiding?” cites no reporters, only columnists, commentators and editorials:
Nashville, Tenn. – Zach Wamp, Republican candidate for Governor today again asked the question that a growing chorus of other Republican candidates and leaders, [...]
CNN:
Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman told CNN Tuesday that he has not ruled out running as a Republican in 2012.
Lieberman told CNN Senior Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash Tuesday that the move remained a legitimate, if unlikely, option. “I don’t know what I’ll run as,” he said. “I like being [...]
From email fundraising appeal:
My son Rand has the status quo running scared in his race for Kentucky Senate. First, he outraised his opponent. Next, Rand took the lead in the polls. And now, the party insiders are scrambling.
We just found out that the National Republican Senatorial Committee has formed a [...]
From Hank Hayes:
Before the luncheon, Wamp was asked whether he supports the reinstatement of state House Speaker Kent Williams of Elizabethton back into the Tennessee Republican Party (TRP).
At its December meeting, TRP’s executive committee chose not to consider letting Williams back into the party. He was expelled from the [...]
Not so fine, says David Oatney:
What no one disputes is that the Haslams have more money than Jehovah, and that if they can’t win over Republicans, they will try and win the primary with Democratic crossovers-and in doing so, they have a good chance to win. After all, the [...]
Nice:
As part of its new media strategy, the Republican party launched a new site called GOP.am on Monday. It’s a URL shortener designed to make it easy for conservative web surfers to exchange links to web pages.
Pranksters almost immediately began using the service to link to controversial or ironically [...]
Michael Petrilli says what Rod Dreher has been saying for a while now:
What’s needed is a full-fledged effort to cultivate “Whole Foods Republicans”—independent-minded voters who embrace a progressive lifestyle but not progressive politics. These highly-educated individuals appreciate diversity and would never tell racist or homophobic jokes; they like [...]
Can you claim both the Baker wing of the TNGOP as well as the tea party movement in your political heritage? It seems like you’d have to be either one or the other.
From the days of the founding of the modern Republican Party in Tennessee by names such as [...]
Rep. Stacey Campfield reports:
I spoke with former US Rep and Republican gubernatorial nominee Van Hillary and he said he will not interested in seeking the US seat held by Bart Gordon at this time. Van has moved into the district a few years ago and has been getting calls [...]
Voters are buying into the argument:
More Americans believe steps taken to reduce global warming pollution will help the U.S. economy than say such measures will hurt it. It’s a sign the public is showing more faith in President Barack Obama’s economic arguments for limiting heat-trapping gases than in Republican [...]
Campfield reminds his fellow conservatives what Democratic retirements mean in the short term:
While many are excited by the probable pickup of two new Republican seats in the US house of reps from Tennessee, there is one little problem with Tanner and Gordon deciding not to face the voters again…….
They [...]
Hotline on the Republican tune-up we are about to receive:
TN has been in need of a “recalibration” for a while now. Dems hold five of the state’s nine CDs, even though John Kerry and Pres. Obama barely broke into the 40’s there. This isn’t to say Dems will certainly [...]
Dominy announces state House run
Metro Councilman Duane Dominy has formally announced his Republican primary campaign for Democratic state Rep. Sherry Jones’ House District 59 seat.
“For a number of years, residents have asked [...]
