An East Tennessee VP?
Kleinheider points to a Chicago Tribune nod to Lamar Alexander’s chances.
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Ummm…except McCain isn’t actually coming to Knoxville next week
Kleinheider links to a press release from the state Democratic Party today attempting to make some hay with John McCain’s just-announced “Forgotten Parts of America” tour:
Sen. McCain’s self-described “Forgotten Parts of America” tour was reported in USA Today as intending to reach out “to African Americans, displaced factory workers, and people living in poverty.” McCain [...]
Read More..>>A.C. Kleinheider’s triumphant return to the blogosphere
It looks like A.C. Kleinheider’s new political blog for The Nashville Post is now truly up and running, with an excellent aggregator, video, and other good stuff. Go check it out.
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Well-heeled, elderly, white ladies for Obama
A.C. Kleinheider introduces us to some Nashville Obama supporters who are out to shatter stereotypes:
Here in Nashville, an intriguing collective has taken to video sharing site YouTube to challenge the notion that Barack Obama is the candidate of the African-American community or the young. A group of seasoned female Nashvillians, several of whom are quite [...]
Read More..>>The rapidly changing face of newsrooms
It was a sad day in TV journalism yesterday, as several CBS stations across the country announced big staff layoffs.
At KPIX in San Francisco, where former Tennessee blogger Brittney Gilbert was hired as the full time newsroom blogger last November, a number of very well respected reporters were given their walking papers.
Britnney blogged about [...]
A.C. Kleinheider has landed
At The Nashville Post, that is:
Adam “A.C.” Kleinheider, who until recently ran the respected VolunteerVoters.com site for WKRN-TV News 2, will on Monday join NashvillePost.com to augment the site’s breaking news coverage with a political blog.
Kleinheider ran VolunteerVoters.com for almost two years, amassing a loyal readership of local business and political leaders with his aggregation [...]
Knoxville Talks traffic
Wow. We’ve had a great first few months. Since launching my little project with scant fanfare during Christmas week (’07), we’ve racked up 72,797 page views.
I’m pretty happy with that.
Soon, you’ll start seeing more promotion for Knoxville Talks at WBIR.com and on the air at WBIR-TV. Lots of good stuff coming down the pike for [...]
Rob Briley says he’s out
Rob Briley will NOT be running for re-election. Kleinheider has all the details.
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Does this mark the official start of the campaign?
Kleinheider notes that the state GOP has begun taking public notice of Democrat Bob Tuke’s campaign to unseat Lamar Alexander.
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Claiming JFK and MLK as Republicans
There’s an interesting discussion going on over at Volunteer Voters between Bill Hobbs and A.C. Kleinheider over whether MLK would be a Republican if he were alive today. In the comments, Bill Hobbs further asserts that JFK would go GOP circa 2008.
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Campfield can’t get behind this one
Ever wondered what type of legislation (other than the obvious left wing, Bible-hating, abortion-promoting, homosexual agenda-type legislation) Rep. Stacey Campfield can’t bring himself to support?
Apparently, he’s not enthusiastic about dogs in restaurants:
He’s all about it if you want to give aborted fetuses a death certificate, tax porn or ban the discussion of homosexuality in [...]
UPDATED: Childcare - a legitimate campaign expense?
Some local Republicans are talking today about certain expenditures listed in County Commission candidate Amy Broyles’ January 28 campaign disclosure statement.
(Many local candidates’ campaign disclosures can be perused at the blog PoliticalKnoxville.com.)
Broyles lists $860 paid in childcare as a campaign expense.
I suspect many working women would argue that childcare is a necessary and legitimate [...]
Gore to throw support to Obama?
Kleinheider points to some talkity talk.
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Legislators want to eat, then dish
Some lawmakers want to be able to accept free meals as long as they then disclose that they ate them. Kleinheider asks:
So is this a problem for the citizens? Should legislators be prohibited from even the appearance of impropriety or is disclosure the answer? If monies spent on a legislator can be disclosed for public [...]
Harold Ford, Jr. is gettin’ hitched
Details are at his wedding website, www.HaroldandEmily.com.
(Hat tip to Kleinheider.)
Apparently, Ford and his bride-to-be, Emily Threlkeld have been dating for a while. She works for Carolina Herrera
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The Howard Baker effect?
Via Kleinheider:
The AP’s Erik Schelzig touches on the unfortunate history of the what might be termed “The Baker Family” in presidential politics:
Thompson’s campaign followed unsuccessful bids for the presidency by former Senate Majority Leader Howard Baker in 1980 and by Sen. Lamar Alexander in 1996 and 2000. Baker was Thompson’s political mentor while Alexander is [...]
