Former Senator And Gubernatorial Candidate Jim Bryson Started A Blog Yesterday

15 Responses to “Former Senator And Gubernatorial Candidate Jim Bryson Started A Blog Yesterday”

1. Morpheus122 writes
   March 5th, 2009 5:19 pm

   Bryson is one of the candidates that Tennessee Democratic Party treasurer Bill Freeman funded. It’s hard to believe that the treasurer of the Tennessee DEMOCRATIC Party worked to elect such an anti-labor Republican, a man that feels no empathy for the plight of tens of thousands of auto workers that could lose their jobs.

   Worse still, TNDP chairman Chip Forrester continues to stand by Freeman, despite the fact that he has worked against every principle of the Democratic Party.

2. Sandy writes
   March 5th, 2009 5:37 pm

   Wonder how Bryson feels about all the freebies Volkswagen is getting from the State of Tennessee and Chattanooga. He’s probably okay with that just like Corker and Wamp, but don’t help GM or Saturn.

3. Morpheus122 writes
   March 5th, 2009 5:46 pm

   Of course, Sandy. Because Volkswagen is non-union.

4. Sandy writes
   March 5th, 2009 5:56 pm

   Yep, that is it. Labor is loyal to the Democratic Party, it is too bad it doesn’t work both ways.

5. Morpheus122 writes
   March 5th, 2009 6:02 pm

   I couldn’t agree more, Sandy. Good for Odom and Cobb for hitting Bryson on this, but where’s Chip Forrester and the Tennessee Democratic Party? Can they not stand up for all the labor guys that give them contributions and knock on doors and make calls for their candidates? In this case, I guess they can’t because Chip’s TREASURER funded Bryson. The TNDP doesn’t have a moral leg to stand on.

6. Harrison writes
   March 5th, 2009 6:07 pm

   Freeman = Bryson = Union hating. Chip should be ashamed.

7. Morpheus122 writes
   March 5th, 2009 6:15 pm

   Agreed, Harrison. AGREED!

8. DG writes
   March 5th, 2009 8:06 pm

   Jim Bryson is a private citizen. Why the hate from two elected officials? Ty Cobb is a union thug that supports Barack Obama and his bailout bill. Perhaps instead GM should look at its own decades of mismanagement and the decisions the UAW has forced it to make. I won’t buy a GM because of the UAW.

9. Maury County Citizen writes
   March 5th, 2009 8:18 pm

   Ty Cobb is a fine man who worked his ass off to beat Tom Dubois’ in the last election because he actually cares about the fate of his hometown. All Duboiscared about was how to keep his republican donors on board, and it came back to haunt him.

10. Morpheus122 writes
    March 5th, 2009 8:49 pm

    DG, why the total lack of concern from Bryson for the tens of thousands of people that could lose their jobs? Typical Republican. Piss on the little guy.

    I guess that’s typical of Bill Freeman’s Tennessee Democratic Party too.

11. Donna Locke writes
    March 5th, 2009 8:50 pm

    Tom DuBois and his family are very involved in this community — I live in Maury, too — it is not accurate to say Tom doesn’t care about the fate of this place. He has sponsored legislation to try to protect it. His work as a city judge is along the same lines. He and his family have donated a lot of money to projects in this county.

    I lived here a long time before Saturn-GM moved in. We were doing very well, and frankly, it was a better place to live then. I’m not speaking for Tom on that — he may totally disagree. But years ago the clothing and towel factories left for overseas and south of the border, and the chemical plants left when the phosphate was gone and government regulations on same set in. That hurt us. But this was a strong farming community with a strong work ethic and we would have attracted other industry, industry that would have hired locally rather than dumping thousands of out-of-state transplants on us while expecting/demanding that we foot the bill for all this and pay the price in diminished quality of life in many ways.

    GM has never paid its fair share of taxes here either. They snookered the local leaders on that one, leaders who were used to honest, fair dealings with other Southerners. Even a former local UAW bargaining chairman who moved here and writes a column for the Columbia paper has admitted in print this inequity and the wrongness of it. He has also come out strongly for immigration enforcement, which, at this point (HB2240-SB2158), leads me to give you folks a closer look.

12. AHughes writes
    March 5th, 2009 9:15 pm

    Ty Cobb is far from a UNION THUG! He is anything but a thug of any kind DG. Have you ever worked with him? NO! Do you know him? NO! Do you know what he stands for? NO!

    Just because he has union support doesn’t make him a hired “Thug” for them. Ty Cobb didnt write the union contracts or make the union by-laws. He lives where the constituency is smack dead in the center of a Saturn plant and so in turn he has to take into consideration of their views.

    Union “thugs” are the men who killed Jimmy Hoffa, not Ty Cobb.

    Im not going to say anything bad about Tom DuBois or to say he didnt want to help his county, but he DIDNT support the unions and his party, BOB CORKER, was for letting GM fail.

13. Morpheus122 writes
    March 5th, 2009 11:02 pm

    leaders who were used to honest, fair dealings with other Southerners.

    Yeah, Donna, the South has a long history of treating workers fairly. Yeah, riiiiggghhttt. No slavery and share cropping around here. No night riders in the Middle Tennessee tobacco fields and no fire bombing the union houses in Southeast Tennessee either. No, sir. The good working folks of Tennessee are “used to honest, fair dealings with other Southerners.”

14. Donna Locke writes
    March 5th, 2009 11:49 pm

    Morpheus, name one local leader or anyone else in Maury County who did that in our lifetimes. I’m descended from sharecroppers, by the way. Lots of people in this county are — white, black, American Indian. I have a painting of one of my granddaddies behind a mule and plow, hanging in my living room. It isn’t really him, of course. It just looked like him and one of his mules, and I couldn’t walk past without buying it from the artist.

15. Steve Richards writes
    March 6th, 2009 10:04 am

    Liberal democrats who don’t understand capitalism or the free-market, chastising a conservative Republican who does understand - gosh, who would have ever thought they would have done that…