A hamhanded attack by Tennessee Republican Party Chairman Bob Davis steered thousands of additional supporters to the Bredesen for Governor online nominating petition over the weekend. The background: On Friday, Davis and conservative bloggers attacked Bredesen's re-elect campaign over an email blast sent earlier in the week. Their claim: Th [...]
January, 2006
GOP Chairman Aids Governor's Petition Push
Monday, January 30th, 2006Al Gore: Sundance Film Festival's Leading Man
Thursday, January 26th, 2006From the Washington Post: PARK CITY, Utah -- Has ever a little indie film faced a greater hurdle? Imagine this sales pitch: Babe, it's a movie about global warming. Starring Al Gore. Doing a slide show. With charts. About "soil evaporation." Improbable? Perhaps. So it's all the more amazing that "An Inconvenient T [...]
The GOP's Judd Matheny: Lobbyist for Hire
Monday, January 23rd, 2006From Sunday's Tennessean: When executives at 3D Financial wanted to keep their line of work, offering high-interest loans to the down-and-out, free from additional state regulations, they went to their local legislator. State Rep. Judd Matheny showed them how it's done. Matheny, a Republican from Tullahoma, instructed the company in [...]
Halteman-Harwell Zig Zag: Is She In or Is She Out?
Thursday, January 19th, 2006Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Bob Tuke released this statement following State Representative Beth Halteman-Harwell’s announcement that she may, in fact, enter the governor’s race after all: “First she’s in. Then she’s out. Then she’s ba [...]
Halteman-Harwell: The 'Made In China' Candidate
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006As State Representative Beth Halteman-Harwell decides whether to run for governor, the Tennessee Democratic Party is calling on her to disclose to voters her toy company's practice of outsourcing manufacturing jobs to China. Halteman-Harwell co-owns Big Time Toys LLC, of Brentwood, with her husband Sam Harwell. The multi-mil [...]
