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From the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee: Earlier this month, Tennessee Senate candidate Bob Corker released a new ad attacking his two primary opponents for voting in favor of a Congressional pay raise. Independent analyses quickly showed Corker’s claim to be flatly false, but Corker ignored them and continued [...]

From the Washington Post: My weekend visitor was one of the founders of the postwar Republican Party in the South, one of those stubborn men who challenged the Democratic rule in his one-party state. He was conservative enough that in the great struggle for the 1952 nomination, his sympathies were with Sen. Robert Taft of Ohio, not [...]

From the City Paper: Republican U.S. Senate frontrunner Bob Corker went to Washington and had fund-raisers with D.C. lobbyists this week, prompting his opponents to call him “very hypocritical.” Tuesday night, Corker attended a $250-per-person, $1,000-per-political-action-committee (PAC) fund-raiser at the office of [...]

The Republican primary for the U.S. Senate seat now held by Majority Leader Bill Frist just keeps getting weirder and weirder. The latest incident took place at the GOP's annual Statesmen's Dinner, which was held last Saturday at Nashville's Opryland Hotel. The [...]

From the Tennessean: Tennessee will send the first of 500 National Guard troops to Arizona today to assist in controlling the U.S. border with Mexico, Gov. Phil Bredesen announced on Thursday. The number of troops is a significant increase over the 100 guardsmen Bredesen said the state could spare to take part in President [...]

From the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee: In his new television ad, Bob Corker blasts opponents Van Hilleary and Ed Bryant for voting to raise their own pay, boosting spending and allowing immigration to become a crisis. But while Bryant and Hilleary are guilty of these sins, the [...]

From the Associated Press: OLYMPIA, Wash. – Gov. Chris Gregoire sent an invoice of nearly $50 million to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on Monday, saying the federal government needs to reimburse the state for the cost of housing criminal illegal immigrants in state prisons. Gregoire said that [...]

If you thought the Republican U.S. Senate primary couldn't get uglier or more bizarre, you need to think again. Reports out of Chattanooga indicate that a car driven by an Ed Bryant supporter in a chicken suit came into [...]

A hot topic during the recent Republican Senate debate in Knoxville was former Chattanooga Mayor Bob Corker's close ties to several Democrat candidates and elected officials over the years. Corker carefully repeated that he had never raised money for [...]

From The City Paper: Local and national labor union leaders gathered at Legislative Plaza on Wednesday to engage in some "Bush bashing" and to show outrage toward the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The rally was one of 18 throughout the country this week, coordinated with a study released by the liberal research group [...]

From the Tennessean: State Sen. Douglas Henry has been around the block a few times. After 36 years in the Senate, and almost as many chairing its Finance, Ways and Means Committee, Henry has seen almost everything state government can dream up. He knows which proposals are innovative and which ones have already [...]

An already bloody Republican primary for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by Majority Leader Bill Frist became even bloodier last week when state Representative Chris Clem, a right-wing firebrand from Hamilton County, ripped former Chattanooga Mayor Bob Corker for his long-standing habit of "systematically [...]

From The Wall Street Journal: James Kyle Jr., a Tennessee state senator, has one ambition as his state swings into campaign season. "I want to be a trivia question -- the only Democratic minority leader in Tennessee history," Sen. Kyle says. He would earn the distinction by helping Democrats this fall move from [...]

From the Tennessean: Compared to Gov. Phil Bredesen, Republican Jim Bryson entered the gubernatorial campaign late, low on funds and lagging in name recognition. Only a level of desperation explains Bryson's willingness this week to take a cheap shot at Bredesen, to use selective information to pander to voters and [...]