Reclaiming The Legislature (And A Slogan) For The Republicans

By Kleinheider Posted on June 6, 2008 at 12:25 pm

The Tennessee Republican Party has busted out with a brand spanking new website which will serve as their virtual HQ and information dispersal center as the party embarks on its quest to take the legislature in 2008 and wield the redistricting pen in 2011.

It is called “Take The Hill Now” and was, I am told, registered long before Bob Tuke made the slogan famous in modern Tennessee politics. While Tuke harkens back to Alvin York, Bill Hobbs et al ride to the sound of TR’s guns:

Just as, on July 1, 1898, Teddy Roosevelt led his “Rough Riders” volunteer cavalry on a victorious charge up San Juan Hill, the Tennessee Republican Party and TakeTheHillNow.com will give Tennesseans the tools to “join the charge” so that, on November 4, 2008, they can change the way things are done in Nashville.

Spokesman Bill Hobbs tells me the site will not be fully operational until after the August primaries and is based on the design of several sites the party has been setting up for candidates who ask such as www.AJMcCall.com, www.AlexMoseley.com, www.RonStarnes.com, www.VicKing.us and www.KenYager.com.

The TNGOP’s policy is to offer site creation for any Republican candidate for the legislature who wants one, even in a contested primary. Interesting.

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