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• Jim Cooper, Conservative Democrat?

  
  hillbillypolitics.com — Authority: 396
  Image via WikipediaEh, not so much. This is Cooper.On November 7, 2009:Nevertheless, the Nashville Democrat planned to vote in favor of the $1.1 trillion package.“My vote is not an endorsement of all the provisions of the bill because I find much of the bill to be deeply flawed,” Cooper said in a written statement ...
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• Adrienne Pakis-Gillon

  
  Newscoma — Authority: 534
  Over the weekend, during my weekend in Memphis, I met Adrienne Pakis-Gillon who is the democratic candidate running against Brian Kelsey in District 31.  It was a casual introduction where we talked briefly about the state of politics in the state and I found her to be very passionate and vibrant. After our ...
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• Bart Gordon on HIGH ALERT after Nov. 3 Election. Lou Ann Zelenik gets my endorsement!

  
  Serr8d's Cutting Edge — Authority: 536
  Yep, my buddy and local Congressional Representative Bart (never met an Al Gore - Nancy Pelosi proposal he couldnt gobble) Gordon is placed on Politicos "Top 10 Democrats on High Alert"...Rep. Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.) Gordon’s one of a growing list of Democratic lawmakers who are likely to have a serious challenge for ...
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• Today’s Lebanon Democrat column: “GOP quietly picks up a seat”

  
  Right Minded Online — Authority: 444
  Three weeks ago, Republican Pat Marsh won a special election to fill a vacated House seat that had been a stronghold for the Democrats. Marsh, of Shelbyville, received 56% of the vote, easily defeating Ty Cobb. This was no small feat, given the fact that the seat had previously been held by both Cobb’s brother and ...
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• Lt. Governor and Republican Gubernatorial candidate Ron Ramsey joins 10th Amendment movement

  
  Nashville Is Talking — Authority: 521
  Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey continues to demonstrate the brand of leadership he envisions governing Tennessee after the 2010 elections. Below are excerpts from a press release issued by Lt. Gov. Ramsey decrying “continued encroachment of the federal government” and supporting legislation to “uphold the 10th ...
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• Today’s Lebanon Democrat column: “GOP quietly picks up a seat”

  
  Right Minded Online — Authority: 444
  Last week, Republican Pat Marsh won a special election to fill a vacated House seat that had been a stronghold for the Democrats. Marsh, of Shelbyville, received 56% of the vote, easily defeating Ty Cobb. This was no small feat, given the fact that the seat had previously been held by Cobb’s brother and father. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Unpublished column: “GOP quietly picks up a seat”

  
  Right Minded Online — Authority: 444
  Last week, Republican Pat Marsh won a special election to fill a vacated House seat that had been a stronghold for the Democrats. Marsh, of Shelbyville, received 56% of the vote, easily defeating Ty Cobb. This was no small feat, given the fact that the seat had previously been held by Cobb’s brother and father. ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Word Blogger Is Not A Dirty Word

  
  Newscoma — Authority: 534
  This is what I want to talk about. This is going to be long and a bit of a hissy fit, so if you aren’t in to that, you might want to see a picture of Barney Frank The Bassett Hound whose human is Mary Mancini . I am surprised at some of the rhetoric used by City Councilman Joe Brown in reference to me. ...
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• Today’s Lebanon Democrat column: “GOP quietly picks up a seat”

  
  Right Minded Online — Authority: 444
  Last week, Republican Pat Marsh won a special election to fill a vacated House seat that had been a stronghold for the Democrats. Marsh, of Shelbyville, received 56% of the vote, easily defeating Ty Cobb. This was no small feat, given the fact that the seat had previously been held by Cobb’s brother and father. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Rural Economic Development, Broadband And Mabel

  
  Newscoma — Authority: 534
  I haven’t been in Hoots much lately and I don’t expect that’s going to change anytime soon, so I decided to go hunt down my former boss, The Businator. Most people’s hobbies include knitting, crafts, coin-collecting and autograph seeking. Not me, dagnabbit, I want to talk about paranormal crap, Bigfoot, ...
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• Revenue enhancement

  
  Right Minded Online — Authority: 444
  That’s Jimmah Naifeh’s new euphamism for “tax increase.” He may no longer be the Speaker, but he still disgusts me. What Did He Say? Naifeh Irks Lawmakers by Talking About Taxes in Budget Hearing – Nashville News – Nashville Scene – Pith in the Wind Posted in Death & Taxes, Tennessee Politics
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• Permanent State Budget Cuts? Well, Yes, Please!

  
  MooreThoughts — Authority: 401
    Powered by Max Banner Ads   According to state budget officials the cuts Tennessee will have to make will likely be permanent “I really think you need to expect and can treat these $1 billion to $1.1 billion in base reductions … as permanent,” said Jim White, executive director of the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Homestate Pride Revisited

  
  The New Republic - The Plank Feed — Authority: 140
  The Tennessee political pundit who periodically dings me with news from the Volunteer State dropped this jewel into my inbox yesterday about a new MTSU poll (thats Middle Tennessee State University) examining the prevalence of various anti-Obama rumors making the rounds. The birther movement is still going ...
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• Tennessee GOP gains another seat in the House

  
  Right Minded Online — Authority: 444
  Pat Marsh of Shelbyville has won a special election to fill a former Democrat seat in the State House that had been vacated. It gives the GOP a 50-48-1 edge in the lower chamber, and puts us back in majority, which we squandered when Speaker Kent Williams sold his soul to the Democrat Party. Republicans gain bigger ...
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• Poll: One-Third of Tennesseans Think Obama Is Muslim or Foreign-Born

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 782
  One reason that a ludicrous figure like Orly Taitz can still get booked for TV interviews — poll after poll shows a substantial number of Americans buying into birther conspiracies. Today it’s an MTSU poll in Tennessee , one of President Obama’s worst states in both the 2008 primary and general election. The ...
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• Tennesseans don’t want guns in bars, legislators do

  
  thinktrain: Rob Robinson — Authority: 119
  Guns and alcohol don’t mix. That may be the single strongest insight from an MTSU poll announced today . Tennesseans overwhelmingly do not want guns in bars, and they also don’t want them in restaurants and parks. Eighty percent of respondents opposed allowing guns in bars, even though the legislature passed a ...
  3 weeks ago

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