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Morning Roundup: Teabaggers Send Positive Vibes Across State, Plus Lawmakers Stop Voting on Everything
The Nashville Scene
4/16/2009
The Nashville Scene
Morning Roundup: Teabaggers Send Positive Vibes Across State, Plus Lawmakers Stop Voting on Everything
By Jeff Woods in Breaking News, Woods
Thursday, Apr. 16 2009 @ 7:11AM
A political maxim: Liquor lobbyists and Baptist preachers beat grocery stores every time even when the stores have hired a PR firm and a half dozen lobbyists. The bill permitting wine sales in groceries is dead. ... The governor's kinda sorry about that:
"I can't imagine what dangers to the fabric of society would exist by having wine in supermarkets. I'm kind of sorry that option is not there."
The deficit gives the governor a stomach ache. ... The state maintains its bond rating. ... Kisber goes to Germany to recruit auto suppliers. ... Senate Republicans delay approving Bredesen's transportation projects. ... House Judiciary Committee delays judicial selection plans. ...Bill requiring proof of citizenship to vote fails. ... Committee investigating Rowland residency is calling three witnesses. ... Lawmakers take drives in clean-diesel VWs. ...
Tea Party roundup: Nashville ... Chattanooga ... Knoxville ... Sevierville ... Kingsport ... Jackson ... Clarksville and Memphis. The Tennessee Democratic Party comments:
On a related note, we heard some disturbing news from East Tennessee today. Cocke County High School in Newport, TN, and Cosby High School in Cosby, TN, both encouraged their students to attend the Cocke County Tea Party today, making multiple announcements over the PA. Now, if a parent wants to take their son or daughter out of class to attend a political rally, that's perfectly fine. But surely it's inappropriate for a school administrator to encourage students to ditch school to attend a plainly partisan political event.
Editorials against drilling on state public land and for expressing regret for slavery. And Frank Cagle offers tips to the candidates for governor:
So to summarize: In order to be elected you just need to run up and down the interstates being a humorless, pandering, parrot desperately seeking media attention.
© Copyright 2009 The Nashville Scene
Morning Roundup: Teabaggers Send Positive Vibes Across State, Plus Lawmakers Stop Voting on Everything
By Jeff Woods in Breaking News, Woods
Thursday, Apr. 16 2009 @ 7:11AM
A political maxim: Liquor lobbyists and Baptist preachers beat grocery stores every time even when the stores have hired a PR firm and a half dozen lobbyists. The bill permitting wine sales in groceries is dead. ... The governor's kinda sorry about that:
"I can't imagine what dangers to the fabric of society would exist by having wine in supermarkets. I'm kind of sorry that option is not there."
The deficit gives the governor a stomach ache. ... The state maintains its bond rating. ... Kisber goes to Germany to recruit auto suppliers. ... Senate Republicans delay approving Bredesen's transportation projects. ... House Judiciary Committee delays judicial selection plans. ...Bill requiring proof of citizenship to vote fails. ... Committee investigating Rowland residency is calling three witnesses. ... Lawmakers take drives in clean-diesel VWs. ...
Tea Party roundup: Nashville ... Chattanooga ... Knoxville ... Sevierville ... Kingsport ... Jackson ... Clarksville and Memphis. The Tennessee Democratic Party comments:
On a related note, we heard some disturbing news from East Tennessee today. Cocke County High School in Newport, TN, and Cosby High School in Cosby, TN, both encouraged their students to attend the Cocke County Tea Party today, making multiple announcements over the PA. Now, if a parent wants to take their son or daughter out of class to attend a political rally, that's perfectly fine. But surely it's inappropriate for a school administrator to encourage students to ditch school to attend a plainly partisan political event.
Editorials against drilling on state public land and for expressing regret for slavery. And Frank Cagle offers tips to the candidates for governor:
So to summarize: In order to be elected you just need to run up and down the interstates being a humorless, pandering, parrot desperately seeking media attention.
© Copyright 2009 The Nashville Scene
