“The long, racist history of the Democratic party”
Bill Hobbs:
I>Bob Krumm has some data showing just how fractured the Tennessee Democrat party is along racial lines. Analyzing the county-by-county results in the race between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in Tennessee, Krumm notes that Clinton lost Tennessee’s urban counties by about a 2:1 margin, narrowly won the suburban counties, and won in rural [...]
Read More..>>Condolences to Bill Hobbs
His mother lost her battle with breast cancer yesterday:
Thursday night my mother’s life on Earth was ended by incurable breast cancer and her new life in Heaven, in a body that will never get sick, age or know pain, sadness or loss, began thanks to the grace of God and His Son, Jesus the [...]
Read More..>>State’s GOP big names divided on Briley apology
GOP Spokesman Bill Hobbs responded to Rob Briley’s formal apology on Capitol Hill yesterday by commenting on the matter at Volunteer Voters, saying:
“Is having an affair with the trial lawyers’ lobbyist one of the things he’s not proud of?”
And:
It’s a serious question that gets to the heart of a serious matter. Briley today apologized for [...]
Bredesen loves his job
Bill Hobbs quotes Governor Bredesen:
“One of the great things about being governor is you get to take taxes away and later give it back and people are happy. Is this a great job or what?”
Hobbs responds: It sure is, governor. You get to spend other people’s money. It is, however, unseemly to rub taxpayers’ noses [...]
Standing up for, well, something
For those of you here in East Tennessee who aren’t familiar with the travails of Middle Tennessee lawmaker Rob Briley, well, suffice it to say he’s been in the news a lot lately…and not in a good way.
Bill Hobbs says that despite Briley’s alleged legal misdeeds and various personal indiscretions, the Democratic leadership intends [...]
Big donor for TN Dems goes to prison
Via Bill Hobbs:
Norman Hsu, a major financial benefactor of the Tennessee Democrat Party, was sentenced Friday to three years in prison for the multi-million-dollar Ponzi scheme fraud that earned him chunks of the millions he donated to Democrats across the country. The Tennessee Democrat Party refuses to give up the $58,000 in dirty Hsu money.
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Read More..>>Sen. Kyle’s “PR stunt”
Bill Hobbs says Sen. Kyle’s proposal for tightening campaign finance fraud is nothing more than window dressing:
Democrat state Sen. Jim Kyle wants to lock the barn gate now that the horse has already escaped. He is proposing legislation that would require the Tennessee Registry of Election Finance to levy a fine equal to the [...]
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