edited by: Kate,
Tennessee Editor
[...] What is David Davis’ political wager? All or nothing. Davis believes that he has a real chance to win the Republican Primary, but his reaction to his defeat at the last election spent quite a lot of his political capital. If he does not winthe primary this [...]
The next meeting of the state Republican Executive Committee has been set.
UPDATE: AP notes meeting is two days after the filing deadline making it too late to file as a Republican even if they let him back in.
[...]The Murfreesboro Republican said, “I have been out front in my opposition to energy tax schemes such as Cap and Trade throughout 2009. With our President jetting off to Denmark to bow at the alter of radical environmentalism and Nancy Pelosi determined to burden us with higher energy [...]
The Memphis Flyer doesn’t understand the why:
For whatever reason, the state’s Republican hierarchy seems to have decided, after acquiring a legislative majority in the 2008 elections and gaining control of the state’e electoral machinery, that implementing the TVCA, with its strict controls over vote fraud, would menace their interests. [...]
State Sen. Diane Black raises some coin using some old stationary — complete with the names of two folks we’re pretty sure don’t support her congressional bid:
I’ve never backed away from a fight. I took on Democrats, and Republicans, when they wanted to tax too much and spend too [...]
Kokesh’s appeal has a lot to do with the hard-edged activism that launched his career. He has traded in military fatigues for suits and plaid shirts. “I think people have told him that the one-fisted Black Panther salute might not sell anymore,” said Jesse Benton. His message, [...]
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 [...]
