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GOP Backroom Deals Fall Apart

On April 26, 2012 By

Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey is apoplectic over the failure of a backroom deal made between he and the House Republicans regarding pork barrel spending:

The House Finance Committee voted to strip $1.5 million in Senate-approved spending amendments from the budget – including $300,000 for Knoxville’s E.M. Jellinek Center – after a two-hour, closed-door [...]

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Republicans Show Their True Colors

On December 9, 2011 By

Tennessee Republicans have really shown their Party’s true colors lately. And it boils down to this: if you’ve lost your job, your home or your health care, you’re on your own.

Instead of looking out for Tennessee’s middle class and people who work for a living, Republican politicians keep putting the interests of millionaires, CEOs, [...]

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TNDP: Strengthen Our Fiscal House By Putting Tennesseans Back to Work

On September 14, 2011 By

NASHVILLE — State Democratic Party Chairman Chip Forrester urged Tennessee’s top Republicans to consider a jobs plan to keep the state’s fiscal house in order.

“The surest way to strengthen our state’s fiscal house is to put 300,000 Tennesseans back to work. If Ron Ramsey and Governor Bill Haslam put half the effort [...]

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Democrats Slam State GOP’s Fundraiser with Mitch Daniels

On July 13, 2011 By

TNDP Chair: Daniels’ record an ‘excellent blueprint’ for harming schools, working class

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Chip Forrester issued the following statement criticizing Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels’ visit to Tennessee to participate in a state GOP fundraiser to be held later this week:

Tennessee Republicans have a surplus of [...]

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GOP Overreach

On June 22, 2011 By

It’s crystal clear that Tennesseans have soundly rejected the extremist GOP agenda rammed through the state legislature this year.

A new, statewide Vanderbilt University poll found that support for the Republican-led state legislature has “plummeted 20 percentage points since January.”

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An Overview of the 2011 General Assembly

On June 22, 2011 By

After just five months of Republican control in the General Assembly and the Governor’s mansion, things in Tennessee are getting worse.

“How bad is it?” Wendi Thomas of The Memphis Commercial Appeal wrote. “It’s so bad I may have to say I’m from Mississippi.”

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Reps. Tim Wirgau, Glen Casada: Out-of-work Tennesseans, You’re On Your Own

On May 25, 2011 By

Jobs aren’t the only thing you can’t find in Tennessee, we’re also in the middle of a major leadership crisis.

Democrats won the fight to include jobless benefits for 28,000 Tennesseans in the final state budget, but it wasn’t without callous and incorrect dissent from Republicans.

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It Pays to Be Friends with Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey

On May 24, 2011 By

Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey has a bad habit of croonyism and cooking up special government deals for his friends. Sadly, for the Lt. Governor, it’s business as usual.

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Democrats Call Out Republicans for Ignoring Jobs Crisis

On April 11, 2011 By

Republican Jobs Rhetoric Amounts to Lip Service

Many people are asking, “Where are the jobs?”

In Tennessee, the more important question may be, “Where is the jobs plan?” It must be top secret because Republicans refuse to talk about what their plans are to help the 76 counties being strangled by double-digit unemployment.

In the [...]

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Ramsey Seeks to Reduce Friend’s Property Taxes

On April 11, 2011 By

Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey has a wealthy friend who is sick of paying property taxes. So, naturally, Ramsey is trying to pass a law that exempts his friend and other wealthy landowners from having to pay their full tax bills.

Tennessee Republicans have made their priorities clear: tax giveaways for their campaign donors, pain for [...]

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