Category: State Politics
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TN State Sen. Staffer's Racist Email On CNN
Sen. Diane Black, whose staffer Sherri Goforth sent an email containing a racist image was on CNN today. Yesterday Newscoma broke the story, and with the help of just about every Tennessee blogger, it went national. Below is the video from CNN. Embedded video from CNN Video
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One More Thing About SJR127
I know I just posted about this yesterday as an issue, but as a matter of law SJR127 is not completely decided, it has merely jumped the first hurdle to being an amendment to the state constitution. According to the state constitution, in order for this to become an full fledged amendment, it must be…
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It’s Time for Action – Part 3
This is part 3 of a three part post. Part 1 deals with gun issues, Part 2 deals with SJR127. This section is different. This section is about forcing accountability and ways to do that Accountability Defeats Barbarism or It’s the Accountability, Stupid There is no accountability in barbarism, and if some had it their…
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It’s Time for Action – Part 2
Fighting What the Fight is Really About or The Barbarism of Subterfuge This is part 2 of a 3 part post. Part 1 can be found here What about SJR127? The truth is, SJR127 is a Trojan horse, being rolled into the state constitution that would allow the state to make a determination on your…
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Big Shelby Leads Charge in a Declining Western Division
Tennessee is growing. According to US Census estimates Tennessee has added some 525,614 people since the census in 2000. In that time, the Eastern and Middle Divisions, as defined by TN Code 4-1-202 through 204 have seen their population increase by nearly 500,000. The Western Division, by contrast, has only added 30,000 people. The Western…