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Didn’t Newt Gingrich Try Something Like This? How’d That Work Out?

By Kleinheider Posted on May 7, 2008 at 8:30 am

Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey is trying to get leverage to change the judicial selection process:

Six state senators abstained en masse Tuesday from a committee vote on a bill that allows about 60 state departments, boards and commissions to stay in existence past June 30. Included are the state’s Safety, Revenue and Health departments.

The most dramatic outcome, albeit unlikely, would be that those agencies, boards and commissions would have to shut down.

Ramsey said he doesn’t think that will happen. But he’s using the bill to leverage an overhaul of the state Judicial Selection Commission — one that would give the lieutenant governor, and the state House speaker, more say in how judges are nominated and appointed.

“I’m determined to make these changes, because I think it’s the right thing,” Ramsey said.

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3 Responses to “Didn’t Newt Gingrich Try Something Like This? How’d That Work Out?”

  1. dan t writes
    May 7th, 2008 10:02 am

    God bless Lt Gov Ramsey! These judicial picks and the commissions in recent times have become nothing more than a jobs program for elitist democrats who couldn’t get elected to a public office to save their life.

  2. Hamilton Screed writes
    May 7th, 2008 10:57 am

    The Republicans only want to play politics. Let’s run them out of Nashville like we ran Newt and his idiots out of Washington. Enough Republican demagoguery on abortion and gay marriage. God forbid we load up the Supreme Court with narrow-minded bigots.

  3. » Ramsey continues effort to place activist judges on the bench The Donkey’s Mouth: Tennessee Democratic Party Blog writes
    May 14th, 2008 9:52 am

    [...] week ago, Speaker Ramsey claimed he would use a bill as “leverage” to make the changes necessary to upend the Judicial Selection Commission [...]

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