What do Scientologists have in common with the Republican party?
From the AP:
The Scientologists have bought the building, so Sen. Lamar Alexander’s re-election headquarters will have to move out.
The Church of Scientology paid about $6 million for the Fall School Business Center, a former elementary school in Nashville that has been home to several Republican campaigns.
A campaign spokesman says Alexander’s campaign is looking [...]
Lamar Alexander wants to hear your gas story
He’s e-mailing constituents, asking for feedback:
—– Forwarded Message —-
From: Senator Lamar Alexander
To: XXX withheld for privacy XXX
Sent: Friday, June 6, 2008 6:48:26 PM
Subject: What’s your gas prices story?
Dear Fellow Tennessean:
All of us know that Tennessee families are being hit hard by sky-high gasoline and diesel prices.
That’s why I fought [...]
Sen. Alexander’s mixed message
Sen. Lamar Alexander talks a lot about his concern for the environment, and his support for cleaner air initiatives that might actually clear some of the coal-fired haze that plagues our region.
Yet, he too often sides with those who oppose progressive policy that might accomplish the goals he ostensibly supports. In the case of the [...]
“Club for Growth” targets Alexander
Apparently some group of climate change-deniers calling themselves “Club for Growth” is gearing up to go after Senator Alexander:
With $250,000 in radio and television spots, the Club for Growth is targeting Republican Sens. Alexander and Elizabeth Dole of North Carolina and Democratic Sens. Robert Byrd and Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia and Max Baucus and [...]
UPDATED: Lamar Alexander’s get-tough strategy
He’s decided to get tough with the Democrats on this issue of lon-unapproved TVA nominees (including Knoxvillian Susan Williams) by blocking an appoinyment to something called “The Institute of Peace” (can anyone tell me what that is?)
Alexander has blocked an appointment to the Institute of Peace in an attempt to force Reid to allow reappointment [...]
UPDATED: Do Senators Alexander and Corker have much say in how the TNGOP is run?
Sharon Cobb asks why the infamous Michelle Obama video is still posted to the Tennessee GOP’s You Tube account, even after Senator Corker made it clear he doesn’t like it one bit.
UPDATE: Mr. Kleinheider explains it all to you (and I think he’s right).
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Told ya
Kleinheider says Bob Corker’s folks are not kidding around in their irritation with Bill Hobb’s latest project as the TNGOP’s state communications director.
And I’ll repeat what I said last week: there’s clearly a role for the type of work Hobbs does within the American political apparatus. However, when both your state’s Republican senators have [...]
Karl Rove helps Tennessee Democratic Party makes its case
A PRESS RELEASE TODAY:
TNDP Chairman Gray Sasser calls on TNGOP to cease “grotesque” campaign tactics
National Republicans ashamed of Tennessee brand
Nashville- Sen. Bob Corker today dubbed his own 2006 campaign advertisements against U.S. Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. “grotesque.” Now, do the junior and senior senators from Tennessee have the courage to [...]
An East Tennessee VP?
Kleinheider points to a Chicago Tribune nod to Lamar Alexander’s chances.
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Is Lamar Alexander a “fossil fool?”
Senatorial opponent Bob Tuke takes Sen. Alexander’s clean energy “Manhattan Project” proposal to task with this press release:
For Immediate Release, 10 May 2008,
Contact: Chris Song, (615) 202-0595
TUKE FOR TENNESSEE ON SENATOR ALEXANDER’S
“MANHATTAN PROJECT” PROPOSAL
Nashville - Senator Alexander has attempted to reinvent himself and his anti-environmental voting record with his proposal for a “Manhattan Project” on [...]
Padgett’s Energy 2.0
Democratic candidate for Senate Mike Padgett has released his own energy plan today:
n the wake of Lamar Alexander’s speech this morning announcing a new “Manhattan Project” for energy independence, one of Alexander’s Democratic opponents, former Knox County Clerk Mike Padgett, has released his own plan called “Energy 2.0.”
Like Alexander, Padgett discusses expanding the use of [...]
Electric Lamar-land
Sen. Alexander gave his big “we need a new Manhattan Project on clean energy” speech at ORNL today, and among his proposals is one that favors cars going electric:
1. Make plug-in electric cars and trucks commonplace. In the 1960s, H. Ross Perot noticed that when banks in Texas locked their doors at 5 p.m., they [...]
Read More..>>Lamar defends EPA on air quality issue
Sen. Alexander takes up for EPA Chief Robert Johnson, who is under fire for allowing more ozone pollution than the EPA’s advisory panels recommended:
Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., defended Johnson and the EPA. Alexander said he often ignored the advice of his Senate staff when he knew something better than they did, and he said [...]
Lamar’s flat tax history mashup
Via ACK and Sean Braisted, comes this video mashup from the Bob Tuke campaign:
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Sen. Alexander is seriously annoyed
Via ACK:
Sen. Alexander sounds pretty dang irritated with the Dems about the hold-up in two nominations to the TVA Board: Bishop William H. Graves and Knoxvillian Susan Richardson Williams.
In unusually blunt language for a senator, Alexander, the No. 3 Republican in the Senate, demanded in a letter that Graves’ renomination, pending since last July, be [...]
Read More..>>It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s….Super-Lamar?
Rikki Hall argues that Lamar Alexander should “be a hero” and make clean air his legacy:
Despite his wavering commitment, Sen. Alexander is among the few Republicans who take air pollution seriously. He has worked to limit mercury and particulate releases, and he understands that excessive emissions can damage tourism, health, and agriculture. On the other [...]
Padgett’s not so keen on this “Manhattan Project”
Mike Padgett says Lamar Alexander hasn’t proved himself on clean energy, which makes his new call for some sort of “Manhattan Project” rather suspect:
“In five years as a United States senator, he has done nothing that would prevent the pain we’re feeling now at the pump,” Padgett said after Senator Alexander announced that he would [...]
Read More..>>Bold action on clean energy?
If he really means it, this would be a Very Good Thing.
With gas prices hitting $4 a gallon, U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander said today he will call for a five-year effort similar to the Manhattan Project to put the country on the path to clean-energy independence
The senator said he would lay out the specifics of [...]
Lamarfacts.com
Democratic candidate Bob Tuke’s campaign has launched an anti-Lamar Alexander site (they are calling it a “microsite”).
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Tuke’s anemic fundraising
Michael Silence isn’t impressed with the $225,000 Bob Tuke has raised thus far in his bif to unseat Lamar Alexander: “That is an impressive amount, if he’s running for mayor of Sevier County.”
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