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State Senator Voted For Budget that Cut Millions from Megasite

Brownsville, Tenn.—Delores Gresham likes to tout her plan for job creation in advertisements and mailings, but when she actually has a chance to vote on job creation, she chooses her party over her West Tennessee constituents.

“Delores Gresham is the ultimate politician: saying one [...]

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Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Gray Sasser today released the following statement regarding state Rep. Dolores Gresham, who’s taking $10,000 in campaign contributions from income-tax champion and former Gov. Don Sundquist while at the same time collecting the endorsement of Washington-lobbyist-turned-Mississippi-Gov. Haley Barbour:

 

“Dolores Gresham attacks lobbyists, but then imports one from Mississippi [...]

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Former Gov. Don Sundquist, the father of Tennessee’s income tax plan, this month doled out $67,000 to 12 Republican legislative candidates — including Dolores Gresham, Ken Yager and Mike Faulk in Senate races, and Vance Dennis, Tom DuBois and Terri Lynn Weaver in House races.

 

According to campaign disclosures filed yesterday [...]

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After revelations that state Representative Dolores Gresham corralled nearly $36,000 in state taxpayer-funded grants for her cattle farm, Democrats today rolled out a paid media campaign shining a light on her ethical lapse and her insistence on taking more taxpayer funds in the future.

 

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Dolores doesn’t get it

On October 24, 2008 By

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The Tennessee Democratic Party today invited the Tennessee Center for Policy Research (TCPR) to chime in on the ethics controversy involving state Rep. Dolores Gresham, who took nearly $36,000 in taxpayer-funded farm grants after using her position on the House Agriculture Committee to promote them.

 

Democratic Party Chairman Gray Sasser, [...]

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The Fayette County Democratic Party Chairman Steve Butler today filed a sworn complaint with the Tennessee Ethics Commission alleging that state Rep. Dolores Gresham misused her office for personal gain by promoting state taxpayer-funded farm grants in the legislature and later accepting nearly $36,000 in the same grants for her and her husband’s [...]

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Two weeks before Halloween, former Senate majority leader and apparent gubernatorial candidate Bill Frist is barnstorming across Tennessee for a cadre of creepy GOP candidates plagued by a laundry list of political problems.

 

“Bill Frist’s gubernatorial campaign is off to a rocky start as he rallies behind a motley crew [...]

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Dolores Gresham still under fire

On October 15, 2008 By

From Memphis WMC-TV:

 

A Tennessee state senate candidate is under scrutiny after being questioned about state dollars her husband’s farm received.Somerville State Representative Dolores Gresham sits on the House Agriculture Committee and voted in favor of the agriculture enhancement grant program. 

Despite that, she said the thousands of [...]

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A No Vote for Gresham

On October 13, 2008 By

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