NASHVILLE — House Democratic Leader Craig Fitzhugh offered a prebuttal to Governor Bill Haslam’s State of the State address. Fitzhugh laid out Democratic priorities: good-paying jobs, investing in public education and expanding genuine access to affordable health care for families who work for a living.
See his video message below:
The video was [...]
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In a press conference yesterday, Democratic candidates for Tennessee State House united to demand better opportunities for Tennessee workers through passage of the Tennessee First Act. This common sense proposal would give responsible Tennessee businesses first crack at state contracts—instead of hiring slightly cheaper companies from out-of-state, such opportunities would be offered to comparable [...]
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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 [...]
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View the Petition: http://tndp.org/blog/take-action/tell-governor-haslam-class-size-matters/
NASHVILLE — The Tennessee Democratic Party launched Wednesday an online petition drive opposing Governor Bill Haslam’s proposal to eliminate average class size requirements at public schools. Chairman Chip Forrester released this statement to accompany the petition:
“Parents and teachers know first hand what a difference small class sizes make [...]
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Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Chip Forrester released the following statement on the January jobs report showing the economy added private sector jobs for the 23rd straight month, at 257,000 private sector jobs, and a chart, below, showing where we’ve come from and where we’re going:
“Today’s jobs report showed more private sector job [...]
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Here’s a word cloud generated from the text of Gov. Bill Haslam’s State of the State address.
Last night, Haslam focused heavily on plans that will change state employee rules (an initiative that has never registered on a public poll that we’re aware of) and more untested and unproven reforms to public education, including [...]
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