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The Pump is Primed, We’re Ready to Go

TNDP — Wed, 23 May 2012 17:36:06 +0000

This weekend the Tennessee Democratic Party held an extensive candidate training camp, bringing in over a hundred candidates, campaign managers, and activists from around the state to hear from experts in the field of messaging, media, data, field, and fundraising.

Friday kicked off with a presentation by our Executive Director Jennifer Buck Wallace giving [...]

We lost a great friend last night

TNDP — Wed, 23 May 2012 16:26:08 +0000

Tennesseans and Democrats across the country lost a great friend in Dixie Taylor-Huff, who passed away last night at the age of 71. Dixie was President and CEO of Quality Health Care, former Treasurer to the Tennessee Democratic Party, and Past President of the Nashville Women’s Political Caucus, among numerous other boards and organizations [...]

Koch Backed Group Attacking Karl Dean

TNDP — Mon, 14 May 2012 17:33:10 +0000

Americans for Prosperity, a group bankrolled and started by the Koch brothers, is coming into Nashville to launch an attack against Mayor Karl Dean for proposing a property tax increase to pay for improvements to schools and city infrastructure. They’ve already released a statement urging people to call or write the council and [...]

Hostility in Rutherford County Property Assessor Office

TNDP — Mon, 14 May 2012 15:37:23 +0000

After having had their claims dismissed by the Tennessee Department of Labor & Workforce Development, two former employees of the Rutherford County Property Assessor’s office have won an appeal for unemployment insurance after the State Appeals Tribunal found they were fired by Republican Bill Boner as a result of retaliation after the two complained [...]

Haslam’s leadership is hindering economic growth in Tennessee

TNDP — Fri, 11 May 2012 21:55:57 +0000

Despite warnings from Governor Bredesen that further cuts in an already bare-bones state government could have negative consequences, Gov. Haslam has pushed through with plans to further and sometimes unnecessarily layoff workers in order to burnish his “conservative” credentials.

Chas Sisk with the Tennessean reports that the Director of MTSU’s Business and Economic [...]

Republicans Refuse to Vote to Help Students

TNDP — Tue, 08 May 2012 22:10:07 +0000

Tennessee’s Republican leadership shamefully shirked their responsibilities by voting down a cloture measure which would have allowed full debate and discussion of S. 2343, the Stop the Student Loan Interest Rate Hike Act of 2012, which would have kept the 3.4% interest rate on Stafford Loans, instead of raising them back to 6.8.

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Congressional Republicans Fighting to Protect Discrimination

TNDP — Tue, 08 May 2012 19:19:50 +0000

Like the bat signal going up over Gotham City, Republicans in Congress got wind that someone might not be tolerating discrimination, and have jumped into action.

36 members of Congress, including Tennessee’s own Reps. Marsha Blackburn, Diane Black, Stephen Fincher and Chuck Fleischmann signed yet another letter addressed to Vanderbilt complaining about their [...]

Senator Bob Corker Practices Shallow, Self-Serving Politics

TNDP — Mon, 07 May 2012 17:08:02 +0000

This weekend Sen. Bob Corker delivered the GOP’s Weekly Address, in which, he called for “pro-growth tax reform” that eliminates tax loopholes. Yet just five weeks ago, Corker voted against a bill that would have eliminated tax loopholes for the Oil & Gas Industry. Corker has a thousand excuses for why he voted to [...]

Moving Tennessee Forward

TNDP — Mon, 07 May 2012 15:02:23 +0000

As the Republican legislature tries their hardest to move Tennessee backwards, the President has spent the last 3 and a half years moving Tennessee and America forward, out of the depths of the Republican caused recession and on a path back to prosperity. Without his efforts, the GM plan in Spring Hill would be permanently [...]

The Champagne Party has Begun

TNDP — Wed, 02 May 2012 13:57:38 +0000

Congressman Stephen Fincher and his fellow Republicans in the House have traded in their tea bags for champagne flutes as they cash in on their positions of power to get money from the same banks who took the bailout money they lambasted in their elections:

Five banks — JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), [...]