No Jury In America Would Vote To Convict
Posted on October 31, 2008 at 5:48 pmI’m referring, of course, to any charges that may be brought against the military husbands and wives who find these guys upon their return from duty overseas.
Military Police at Fort Campbell are looking for a pair of men posing as casualty notification officers on the Army post.
Early yesterday morning, the wife of a 4th Brigade soldier deployed to Afghanistan opened the door to two men. One was dressed in Class A Army uniform. The other was dressed as a civilian clergyman. Both were imposters.
Maj. Deverick Jenkins says they told the woman that her husband died in combat.
It’s All About The ‘Stache
Posted on at 5:31 pmAn endorsement for Libertarian Presidential candidate Bob Barr:
“Wouldn’t Barr be the first mustachioed occupant of the White House since Teddy Roosevelt? Even if you don’t like the man, vote the mustache! This would be change we can see. “
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Former Reagan Chief Of Staff For Obama
Posted on at 5:29 pmKen Duberstein says, yes, he can:
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Final Early Voting Numbers
Posted on at 4:41 pmEvans Donnell lets us know that they are up.
Kurita Gives Money To The Republicans
Posted on at 4:40 pmFrom the Tennessee Journal:
Sen. Rosalind Kurita of Clarksville, who was stripped of the Democratic nomination by the party executive committee last month, donated $32,500 to [the Tennessee Republican party's Tennessee Legislative Campaign Committee] from her Majority PAC on Oct. 24.
Skeleton Crews
Posted on at 4:25 pmRoll Call talks about the migration of DC staff during campaign season:
Four days before the elections, most offices in the Senate are operating with little more than skeleton crews. Most of the top staff for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Republican Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander (Tenn..) have been back in their bosses’ home states for weeks. Both McConnell and Alexander are facing voters this year, with McConnell locked in a tight fight and Alexander expected to see a relatively easy win on Election Day.
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An Undecided Tennessee Voter
Posted on at 4:12 pmDiscusses her plight with NPR:
Constance Griffin is a 35-year-old single mother of two who works as an account technician with the State of Tennessee, Department of Corrections. Griffin is working on her associates degree; she’s also a Baptist who considers herself very religious and is an undecided voter. She discusses her take on the election and the candidates.
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Do Voters Want To Spread The Wealth Around?
Posted on at 4:09 pmPolling indicates that John McCain may have turned some folks around on the issue of redistribution of wealth:
Granting that you can’t demonstrate causation based on correlation, but what seems to have happened here is that McCain started articulating an unpopular, anti-egalitarian message. But his endless repetition of the message “taught” a significant number of self-identifying Republicans than their previous egalitarian views were “wrong” and brought them around to the orthodox conservative position. A small number of independents seem to have gone along for the ride as well, which isn’t surprising since we know many independents are covert partisans and there’s also the possibility of statical noise. And Democrats didn’t move at all. But in essence, McCain’s message seems to be persuading his base to change their minds about an issue, rather than persuading undecided voters to turn against Obama.
It’s Not The Pants That Make You Look Fat, It’s Your Hips
Posted on at 4:07 pmDavid Donadio believes that McCain is McCain’s problem, not Sarah Palin:
The real problem is McCain. McCain is campaigning against the media; Obama is campaigning for the presidency. McCain chose a running mate who’s a bigger story than he is; Obama is the biggest story in years. Whether you’re unhappy about foreign policy, domestic spending, unrestrained executive power, or anything else, there’s little in McCain’s message or his demeanor that says he cares about conservatives who don’t like the direction the Republican party is heading. Seeing his routine at the Al Smith dinner, I thought: there’s the McCain we like, the self-effacing public servant whose good humor goes far. And the next day, he was back to his latter-day campaign self: angry, erratic and bellicose.
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Cromer’s Picks
Posted on at 3:17 pmThe Tennessee Journal has made its predictions in the state’s senate races and concludes that the count will be 17-15-1:
In today’s edition of the insider’s newsletter, Cromer picks Mike Williams against Mike Faulk in District 4, but “it could go either way,” and he predicts the GOP will snag a Democratic seat with a victory by Ken Yager against Becky Ruppe in District 12, though “this one too could go either way.”
He’s going with Randy Camp against Delores Gresham in District 26 but only if you put a gun to his head. “If we had to bet, we’d bet on Camp, but we wouldn’t bet much.”
Hank Williams Jr. For Senate?
Posted on at 3:13 pmWKRN entertainment guru Brad Schmitt reports on an artist’s contemplation of a career in politics:
“I’m quite motivated, cousin,” Hank told me Thursday night.
How motivated?
“You might be looking at the next senator from Tennessee, if this keeps up,” Bocephus barked. “And I AIN’T kidding!”
Hmmmmm. No, Hank hasn’t formed any sort of exploratory committees or a campaign headquarters.
But he has phoned former Sens. Bill Frist and Fred Thompson lately. Bocephus might be more serious than you think.
(TFJ: GIT)
A Prospect Of A New State House Speaker
Posted on at 2:44 pmJoe Lance ponders the current situation:
Whatever Rep. Odom’s specific plans are, I struggle to understand why good Democrats (and a dwindling number of Republicans) continue to prop up Jimmy Naifeh as the Speaker. I know why my Republican friends want to see him go: they want one of their own in the chair. But since I’m an independent, it’s not about party for me. I’d be just as comfortable with a Democrat. I’d want either to bring new principles to presiding over the chamber, and to avoid the seeming conflicts of interest (such as being married to one of the top lobbyists in the state).
I would enjoy an opportunity to meet Speaker Naifeh and talk to him face-to-face. I realize that from this distance, he comes across a bit caricatured, and that he might not seem such a “bogeyman” in person. But without such firsthand knowledge, I can only state that I feel his time with the gavel should end, so that our citizen legislature has the “breathing room” it needs to operate as intended. Therefore I support neither Rep. Odom nor Rep. Jason Mumpower specifically (should the Republicans gain a majority of seats); but I do support the process of reforming the General Assembly — one member at a time, but also in how and why its leaders are chosen.
What do you think? Will Gary Odom go for it? And if he does, will he win it?
Please
Posted on at 2:37 pmLawrence Eagleburger, former Secretary of State for a Republican President, keeps it real on Sarah Palin:
Throughout most of the 17-minute segment, the gruff and sometimes sarcastic Eagleburger played his part well enough — referring to McCain as an unquestionable “hero,” offering an avuncular “good for you” to one pro-McCain caller and dismissing Obama’s ideas for Iraq as “absurdities.”
So far so good, right? But when NPR interviewer Neal Conan started asking about Sarah Palin, things started to go horribly wrong.
Asked if the vice-presidential nominee is ready to take the presidential reins, Eagleburger said bluntly, “Of course not.”
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Was It Something He Said?
Posted on at 2:36 pmA conservative blogger accuses Clarksville Online of selective enforcement of its comment policy:
I wish I had saved the comment as proof, but I never “attacked” the interviewer. Expressing an opinion that he was biased is not a personal attack; it’s my opinion. Attack implies inflammatory remarks, threats, and foul language, none of which were contained in my comment. I felt it was a respectful response, but because it wasn’t positive or complimenting like the others that made it past editorial scrutiny, it was rejected.
I can understand moderating comments that meet the criteria I listed. There’s some pretty nasty remarks posted to all blogs that offer nothing to the conversation but hate. I’ve done my best on my blog not to get into that sort of writing. I may poke fun at my liberal friends and call them “goofballs” or even “idiots,” but I don’t condone vicious name-calling directed at anyone. It may be frustrating to read, but I do believe everyone is entitled to their opinion.
But obviously Clarksville Online doesn’t hold itself to such lofty standards.
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Red Light, Green Light
Posted on at 2:24 pmThe Tennessee Center for Policy Research’s Justin Owen talks red light cameras with WKRN’s Bob Mueller:
Check It
Posted on at 1:51 pmMary Mancini warns you make sure you are on the voter rolls before you go to the polls:
Voter roll purging is this election season’s new black. Unfortunately, it’s not fabulous. So take what little time you have between now and next Tuesday and check your registration - whether this is your first election or you’ve been voting every year since you were 18.
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“If” Is the Key Word
Posted on at 1:36 pmA blog with an obviously superficial knowledge of Tennessee politics runs down the 2010 Governor’s race:
Governor Bredesen cannot run for reelection in 2010. Harold Ford would probably get the Democratic nomination if he ran. If he does not, other possible candidates include Representatives Steve Cohen, Lincoln Davis, and John Tanner, Kim McMillan, and Bill Purcell.
Bill Frist would be the frontrunner for the Republican nomination if he ran. If he doe not, Representative Zach Wamp probably will. Representatives Marsha Blackburn and David Davis represent the next tier. Last resort candidates include Jim Bryson and State Representative Beth Harwell.
Given the state’s Republican leanings, the GOP is a favorite to retain the governorship.
The inclusion of Cohen, Tanner and Purcell on the Democratic side and the absence of Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam from the Republican side make this an imperfect analysis at best.
Sounds Like An Interesting Family
Posted on at 1:29 pmSome interesting info from 1998 on one of the families involved in the purchase of Nashville’s minor league baseball franchise:
Hirokuni and Mitsuhiro Honzawa have been warring in courtrooms in New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Liechtenstein over the landmark Mobil Building at E. 42nd St. and Lexington, as well as numerous other properties in New York and Tokyo valued at $1 billion.
The fight has been brutal, especially by Japanese standards where disputes typically conclude as negotiated settlements not public hostilities.
Hirokuni, 62, the older of the two brothers, has accused Mitsuhiro in legal papers of a wide range of abuses, from bungling the family’s New York investments to embezzling $2.3 million from a family bank account in Hong Kong.
Mitsuhiro, 56, has denied these accusations while making several on his own. He contends Hirokuni improperly locked him out of the family business and evicted him from his luxurious company-owned house, forcing him to live in a small apartment.
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