The Tennessee ConserVOLiance

Kent Greenough is running against Monty Lankford in the Tn 4th Congressional District Republican Primary. Kent is a Marine Veteran as is his wife and his daughter is a Naval Veteran. Monty is not a Veteran so maybe these words he has on his website issues page don’t mean anything to him. […]

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First a history lesson: In the last 100 years, there was only one two-year period, from 1969-1971, when the Tennessee House had a Republican Speaker. It happened in 1969, following the mandated 1-man,1-vote redistricting of the Tennessee Legislature (which reduced the disproportionate strength of the rural counties). After the turbulent 1968 elections, the defection of […]

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The Republicans have a contested primary race for Tn Congressional District 4. Kent Greenough and Monty Lankford are both candidates running for the GOP Primary in August. Until the primary election decides who the GOP candidate will be the county and state GOP party must remain impartial.
Go to Bear Creek Ledger […]

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I live in the 4th Congressional District. Lincoln Davis (D) has been my absent representative. Oh, he’s in Washington but if you contact Lincoln about anything all you get in response are platitudes and gosh darn good ol boy shucks crapola. When Monty Lankford announced he was going to run for the […]

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This post is several days overdue as the blogger meet-up in question took place on Sunday night. Have I mentioned that I’ve been busy?
Anyway, Sunday night a little over 20 of us (including the odd child) gathered at the Hickory Hollow Olive Garden for a bit of networking and to visit with some special […]

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I find it amusing and somewhat penumbral to think the President and others believe they can stimulate the American economy my throwing some money at it. Sen. Corker seems to have some financial wisdom as he is against the endeavor. Mr. Wamp and Alexander, following their true fiscal liberalism favor the proposals. This video-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEdkRV8bMrI-of Rep. […]

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The Daily Times in Maryville and Blount County is reporting that Greenback’s Tona Monroe-Ball is seeking the GOP nomination for TN’s House District 20 seat. District 20 is the entire Western end of Blount county. There’s a map here and here showing the District itself and where it fits with the rest of […]

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The Tennessee Republican Assembly (TRA) held their 2008 Convention today for the purpose of endorsing candidates for the upcoming elections in the Fall.
Present to address the Convention were the following candidates for office:
Juan Borges, TN House, District 60;
Gerard Donovan, US House, 5th District;
Ron Hickman, TN House, District 60;
Timothy Lee, TN House, District 55;
Susan Lynn, TN […]

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