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Forrester Rebukes Tennessee Democratic Grasstops

By Kleinheider Posted on December 27, 2008 at 12:18 pm

Former Treasurer of the Tennessee Democratic Party and a candidate for chairman of the organization has fired back a response to a letter signed by many of Tennessee’s top Democratic officeholders in support of his opponent Charles Robert Bone:

Our state Party was led this year by the very people who have now signed the endorsement letter for Charles Robert Bone. They set the strategy for this year’s campaign in Tennessee.

Our state Party did not suffer from a lack of funding, I know because as Treasurer I signed the checks. What our Party suffered from this year was a lack of a grassroots organization that involved everyone that believes in and supports the values of the Democratic Party.

You cannot build a viable political party from the top down, no more than you can improve the economic well being of our country with “trickle down” economics as failed Republican administration policies, tragically for our country’s working men and women, have so vividly shown us these past 8 years.

And while I respect everyone who signed the endorsement letter, if these elections have taught us anything, they should have shown us that the “top down” approach does not work any longer in Tennessee.

Read the full letter.

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4 Responses to “Forrester Rebukes Tennessee Democratic Grasstops”

  1. Joe the Plumber writes
    December 27th, 2008 12:36 pm

    I don’t buy it - Chip is running a positive campaign and you have mischaracterized his letter. Key statement: “And while I respect everyone who signed the endorsement letter, if these elections have taught us anything, they should have shown us that the “top down” approach does not work any longer in Tennessee.” - This is not an attack, it’s a response to an attack.

  2. Harrison writes
    December 27th, 2008 4:18 pm

    So let me get this straight … Chip blames members of Congress and the Governor for legislative losses in 2008? Last I checked, they did their part. They won. They’ve run some of the more sophisticated (and successful) campaigns in modern Tennessee history — including a modest 95-county win just two years ago. And we’re supposed to take political advice instead from Chip? Who got pasted 3-to-1 by Bob Clement in a Democratic congressional primary? This is absurd. Someone needs to give this clown a good ‘ol fashioned Grundy County ass whipping.

  3. Solomon Grundy writes
    December 28th, 2008 10:20 am

    I’d say that could be easily arranged. Just send him to Grundy County. He’d get about half-way through his “netroots” spiel and the boys from Gruetli-Laager would string him up by his bowtie.

  4. Alex writes
    December 29th, 2008 9:56 am

    Does this Forrester really believe that websites and blogs win legislative races in TN? If so, he needs to take off that bowtie, get out of Nashville, and learn something about this state.

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