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Did Republican U.S. Senate candidate Van Hilleary lie to the Tennessean in 2003 when he insisted he wasn’t going to Washington to become a lobbyist? It looks that way. The background: On July 9, 2003, the Nashville newspaper reported that Hilleary, who lost in his 2002 bid for governor, had taken a job as a “Washington lobbyist [...]

Tennessee First Lady Andrea Conte teamed up with a national organization to launch a campaign to protect children from online predators. Conte joined leaders of the Internet Keep Safe Coalition and state education officials to announce the effort. The nationwide campaign uses a Web site, children's books and educational mate [...]

Republican State Senator Jim Bryson appeared on Knoxville talk radio station WNOX-FM this past weekend to bash the Bredesen Administration and call for additional TennCare reform. Political observers will recall that Bryson, during the closing days of the 2005 legislative session, submitted a bill that would have sent tens of millions of dol [...]

Think Democrats have a tough time finding unity? They can’t hold a candle to the 2006 Republican U.S. Senate candidates who are locked in a fierce intra-party squabble that’s tearing the Tennessee GOP apart. At the moment, the focus is on former congressman Ed Bryant and his supporters, including right-wing bloggers, who are working to d [...]

Debate over ethics reform appears to have stalled in the General Assembly with Senate Majority Leader Ron Ramsey and other Republicans refusing to consider a $20,000 limit for individual donors in an election cycle and instead attacking Democrats over small-dollar cash contributions at campaign chili suppers and bar-b-ques. The most heated d [...]

Tennessee’s Conference of the NAACP marked the 40th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act by calling for reauthorization of the historic law and urging renewed focus on policies that promote equality. “We still have a great deal of work to do in our nation on the agenda of making a more inclusive and just society,” former U.S. Commission on Civil Rights [...]

In the storm over ethics and special elections, it's worth stepping back to recognize one positive development — the State of Tennessee’s renewed focus on conservation. Among other things, the State Department of Environment and Conservation is leveraging federal funds to purchase remaining tracts in the Flat Rock Cedar Glades, about eig [...]

Republican Senate candidate Van Hilleary appears to be Tennessee’s chief beneficiary of political action committees controlled by indicted former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. Hilleary, a former congressman and gubernatorial candidate has received more than $17,000 from DeLay since 1994. Former Congressman Ed Bryant, who’s opposi [...]

From the Chattanooga Times Free Press: Several Tennessee and Georgia politicians accepted campaign donations from indicted former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s national political action committee, whose executive director is under Texas state indictments for an alleged scheme involving another DeLay PAC. Records show S [...]

The American Progress Action Fund's Daily Report is a good source of news and information on Washington. The lead item in today's email dispatch: Shortly after Rep. Tom DeLay (R-TX) was criminally indicted and forced to step down from his post as House Majority Leader, New York Times columnist David Brooks [...]

From the Associated Press: The leader of the Black Legislative Caucus says the group may let state Rep. Stacey Campfield in as an honorary member, but says he first would like a better apology from the white Republican who attacked its bylaws as racist. Campfield said he doesn't want to be an honorary member and said the Black Caucu [...]