Jim Kyle’s Ittie Bittie Twittie Gubernatorial Exploratory Committee

17 Responses to “Jim Kyle’s Ittie Bittie Twittie Gubernatorial Exploratory Committee”

1. Milton writes
   April 25th, 2009 3:33 pm

   Is Kyle going to run on his support for a state income tax? Remember, he voted for one in 1999.

2. Heyron writes
   April 25th, 2009 7:02 pm

   Better to vote for an income tax than to gouge the shit out of well paying customers.

3. dan writes
   April 25th, 2009 7:47 pm

   He knows its going to be a very long time before the dems ever sniff the majority again in the senate. So this shouldnt come as a surprise.

4. Charles writes
   April 25th, 2009 9:06 pm

   It would be great if he went and got another job. But preferably one far, far away from public service.

5. Reality writes
   April 25th, 2009 9:19 pm

   Jim Kyle? Are you serious? He has been at least complicit in every Democrat scandal for over 20 years. John Ford was his Shelby County delegation colleague. Kyle never said an unkind word about him. Kyle fought to let Crutchfield and Bowers sit in the special session on ethics that was brought about because they took bribes. Kyle praised Jerry Cooper after he left office in disgrace for stealing campaign funds.

   Look up Democrat corruption and you find a picture of Jim Kyle.

6. Scooter McRae writes
   April 25th, 2009 10:43 pm

   Don’t forget, he voted for those municipal bond swaps that have cities and towns across the state in big trouble now, owing millions of dollars. Our dumb ass legislators passed the things unanimously.

7. Donna Locke writes
   April 25th, 2009 11:11 pm

   Gee, Sen. Kyle, remember when you sponsored the Senate bill to allow illegal aliens to get Tennessee driver’s licenses and made Tennessee a major magnet for illegal aliens?

   As I posted in 2001:

   Roll Call Vote Giving Tennessee Driver’s Licenses to Legal and Illegal Aliens — April 23, 2001

   Tennessee Senate Bill 1266 - House Bill 0983 abolished the previous requirement that driver’s license applicants furnish a Social Security number and expanded the list and type of documents accepted by driver’s license examiners for identification if the applicant is not a U.S. citizen. This bill was passed by those legislators voting yes on April 23, 2001. The bill was signed into law by Gov. Sundquist.

   Senators voting yes (20): Burks, Clabough, Cohen, Cooper, Crutchfield, Davis, Dixon, Ford, Graves, Harper, Haynes, Henry, Herron, Kurita, Kyle, McNally, Rochelle, Trail, Williams, and Speaker Wilder.

   Senators voting no (10): Atchley, Blackburn, Burchett, Carter, Crowe, Fowler, Haun, Norris, Person, and Ramsey.

   Representatives voting yes (69): Armstrong, Bittle, Black, Bone, Bowers, Boyer, Briley, Brooks, Brown, Buck, Buttry, Caldwell, Chumney, Clem, Cooper, Curtiss, Davidson, Deberry J, Deberry L, Dunn, Fitzhugh, Fowlkes, Fraley, Garrett, Hagood, Hargrove, Harwell, Head, Hood, Johnson, Jones S, Jones U, Kernell, Kisber, Langster, Maddox, McDaniel, McDonald, McMillan, Miller, Montgomery, Odom, Phelan, Phillips, Pinion, Pleasant, Pruitt, Ridgeway, Rinks, Roach, Sands, Scroggs, Shaw, Shepard, Stanley, Tidwell, Tindell, Todd, Turner B, Turner L, Turner M, Vincent, Walker, West, White, Williams, Winningham, Wood, Speaker Naifeh.

   Representatives voting no (21): Baird, Beavers, Cole (Carter), Cole (Dyer), Ferguson, Ford, Givens, Godsey, Goins, Kent, Lewis, McCord, McKee, Mumpower, Newton, Overbey, Patton, Rowland, Sargent, Westmoreland, Whitson.

   Representatives present but not voting (6): Bunch, Davis D, Hargett, Rhinehart, Sharp, Windle.

   Representatives not voting (3): Arriola (E), Davis R, Towns.

   Reps and senators now trying to repeal the above law by sponsoring a new bill: Rowland, Blackburn, Beavers, Black, Pleasant, Stanley, Hargett, Goins, Todd, Baird, Godsey, Mumpower.
   More may join them.
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   Many of the lawmakers above have since come to their senses. — Donna

8. BluedogCatcher writes
   April 26th, 2009 12:16 am

   Donna,

   Is there anyone so completely daft that they believe the lack of a drivers license will stop an illegal immigrant from driving? And furthermore, is there any discussion that you will not eventually twist to your loathing of all things Mexican? Is there a second issue somewhere out there that you care about?

9. Donna Locke writes
   April 26th, 2009 12:55 am

   Is there a second issue somewhere out there that you care about?

   I want doo-wop to make a comeback.

10. Janet Step writes
    April 26th, 2009 6:23 am

    Can’t the Tennessee Democratic Party do any better than this? Three career politicians (Kyle, Herron, and McMillan) that have been right in the middle of every dirty deal and bad piece of legislation for over twenty years and the scion of political royalty who’s never done anything on his own and is only running because he thinks it’s his birthrite. He’s already quit one race. Does anyone believe he’ll finish this one?

    It’s the same old tired choices the TNDP gives us. Not a fresh face or a new idea in the bunch.

11. DG writes
    April 26th, 2009 9:49 am

    Cammack? Burke?

12. Donna Locke writes
    April 26th, 2009 4:40 pm

    Last night I dreamed 8 years had passed and it was 2009. And a socialist was president and General Motors had become Government Motors, and Hillary Clinton was secretary of state (SOS), and Bill Clinton was still ubiquitous and immune to all pop-up blockers. And not only were we STILL fighting amnesty for illegal aliens, but Janet What-Border? Napolitano was something called homeland security secretary, and Hilda “We are all Americans whether you are legalized or not” Solis was labor secretary, and Cecilia La-Raza-Suckin’-Up-Your-Tax-Dollars-Reconquista-Fanatic Munoz was director of intergovernmental affairs.

    And not only that, but one of the sponsors of the Tennessee driver’s-licenses-for-illegal-aliens bills was running for governor to replace a carpetbagger corporate-welfare-king from New York who had helped trash Tennessee and had blasted the world’s largest fallout shelter into the ground at the governor’s mansion where he didn’t live. And Nashville was almost Atlanta, and Spring Hill was almost Franklin, and newspapers were circling the drain, and a contrary, smart-aleck Vanderbilt student on my e-mail list was controlling the main political news outlet in Tennessee.

    Thank heavens it was just a nightmare.

13. Janet Step writes
    April 26th, 2009 4:59 pm

    If we’re talking about working people, we can forget any help from the state legislators running for governor. They all supported workers comp in 2004. Kyle and McMillan both sponsored it. How can organized labor support any of them?

14. loves it writes
    April 26th, 2009 6:20 pm

    Donna…that was amazing!

15. JanetS writes
    April 26th, 2009 8:00 pm

    DG, yes, Ward Cammack deserves a serious look. He understands the economy like no other candidiate in this race. He understands that the jobs of today are in the green economy. Anyone smart enough to get in the green sector today is going to make a lot of money. It’s just like computers were several decades ago.

16. Outrageous . . . writes
    April 26th, 2009 8:50 pm

    Making Jim Kyle governor would be putting the fox in charge of the hen house. In 2004, he sponsored the bill to increase his own legislative salary and pension. He ought to run for Congress.

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