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Republican State Representative Stacey Campfield of Knoxville just keeps digging himself deeper into a hole that's becoming embarassing for his entire party. After being denied membership in the State's Legislative Black Caucus, Campfield — who is white — likened the Black Caucus to the Ku Klux Klan. Within days, MSNBC commentator [...]

U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas has been indicted for conspiracy in a campaign finance scheme, forcing him to temporarily step down from his leadership post. DeLay, one of the GOP's leading national figures, dismissed the charges as baseless and politically motivated. DeLay's indictment reverberated in federal [...]

From this morning's Bloomberg News: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist faces a near-term ordeal unwelcome to anyone, particularly an ambitious politician: an official probe into his personal financial dealings by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC authorized a formal order of investigation of F [...]

From Reuters: Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's recent stock sale threatens to cost him and fellow Republicans politically as he mulls a 2008 presidential bid and investigators examine whether he violated any trading laws, political analysts said. "Frist's White House campaign hasn't really taken off, and this adds weight to an id [...]

Senate Majority Bill Frist apparently lied about his stock holdings, claiming on repeated occasions that “I don’t know if I own HCA,” even though in June he ordered a sell-off of shares in the Nashville-based hospital chain founded by his family. Meanwhile, critics say weak federal ethics laws allow for the creation of “qualified bli [...]

Tennessee's expanding pre-kindergarten initiative is yielding dividends. More Tennessee four-year-olds than ever are walking through the doors to early childhood education this fall with the addition of 300 new pre-K classrooms in 106 school systems statewide, thanks to efforts by Governor Phil Bredesen and Democratic leaders in the General [...]

Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Bob Tuke released this statement following reports that Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist is under investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and federal prosecutors over his sell-off of shares in HCA Inc., the Nashville-based hospital ch [...]

From the Associated Press: The Securities and Exchange Commission and federal prosecutors are investigating Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's sale of stock in HCA Inc., the hospital operating company founded by his family. In a statement released Friday, the Nashville-based company said federal prosecutors for the [...]

In one of the more bizarre developments of the 104th General Assembly, freshman Republican State Representative Stacey Campfield, of Knoxville, tried to join the Legislative Black Caucus. The Knoxville News-Sentinel reports that Campfield, who is white, made his request to State Representative Johnny Shaw, who chair [...]

Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist’s well-timed sell-off of shares in Nashville-based HCA Inc. may have had less to do with profit-taking and more to do with distancing himself from the recently troubled hospital chain prior to running for president in 2008, some political observers believe. [...]

From wire reports: A Memphis lawyer who was state chairman of President Bush's re-election campaign and who has no experience as a prosecutor said he is being considered as a candidate for U.S. attorney for the Western District [...]

After being narrowly defeated in a special election for State Senate, Republican businessman Terry Roland pledged to “bring in a sh--load of attorneys” from Washington to tangle up the Shelby County election process. His campaign’s comments appeared in an [...]

Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Bob Tuke submitted final recommendations on ethics reform to the General Assembly’s Joint Legislative Committee on Ethics. The Party’s recommendations focused primarily on campaign finance limits and disclosure. “Campaign finance is a critical but manageable area of ethics reform that both parties ca [...]

Looking for insight into the mind of newly elected House Republican Leader Bill Dunn? Earlier this year, Dunn worked against Tennessee’s nationally recognized pre-kindergarten program, calling the initiative a waste of money [...]

From today's Knoxville News-Sentinel: "State Representative Bill Dunn, a six-term legislative veteran best known as sponsor of a state constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage, was chosen Monday as the new leader of state House Republicans. Dunn, 44, beat fellow Knoxvillian Harry Brooks in a secret ballot at a m [...]

The Tennessee County Highway Officials Association joined key Republicans in opposing a suspension of the state's gas tax. The association said the move would choke funding to road projects, shutting down as many as 45 county highway departments and resulting in up to 1,500 layoffs statewide. The estimates followed [...]

Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Bob Tuke released the following statement following reports that House Republican Leader Tre Hargett has backed out of his recently announced lobbying job with drugmaker Pfizer: “Representative Hargett did the honorable thing by backing down from his position with Pfizer. But there still [...]

A handful of Republican lawmakers called for reducing Tennessee’s gas tax in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, while other Republicans warned such a move would paralyze road construction in the state’s fastest-growing communities. Fifteen legislators called for an executive order temporarily suspending the tax, even as prices at the pump are poised to fall. [...]

After days of misery and chaos on the Gulf Coast, President Bush’s visits to the disaster area were derided as too little, too late by critics on the left and right. Even as FEMA and other agencies dragged in providing much-needed relief, Bush continued defending the undisputedly slow federal response. Associated Press political writer [...]

In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, state lawmakers worked to shore up Tennessee’s disaster preparedness by fighting the Pentagon's attempt to dismantle the Tennessee Air National Guard’s 118th Airlift Wing. Eighteen Middle Tennessee legislators today filed papers in U.S. District Court in support of Governor Bredesen’s lawsuit to keep t [...]