Dude, You Can Send Out Mailers About The Bridges We’re Building With These Bonds
Posted on March 27, 2009 at 7:11 amThe governor thinks Republicans will come around about not using stimulus funds for bridge projects:
“They don’t like the idea,” Gov. Bredesen acknowledged of Republican opposition. “I understand that. They may like the idea better when they actually focus on the fact there’s lots of bridges in their districts.”
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Sebelius, Can You Believe This
Posted on February 9, 2009 at 7:55 amJeff Woods thinks Phil Bredesen is gonna have a hard time besting the other reported contenders for the job of Health and Human Services Secretary:
Let’s face it. Sebelius has got it all over Bredesen for this job. She was an early supporter of Obama for president. Bredesen didn’t get behind Obama until it became obvious he would win the nomination. Along the way, our governor cleverly bad-mouthed Obama, repeatedly telling one of the best campaigners in American political history that he was screwing things up with the Wal-Mart crowd.
Did I Studder?
Posted on February 6, 2009 at 4:28 pmBredesen spokeswoman, Lydia Lenker, reiterates that Governor Phil Bredesen is not in talks to become the next Secretary of Health and Human Services:
“I can’t keep up with this speculation central (in Washington),” she said. “Nothing is changed and I don’t know where they’re getting this information. We haven’t gotten any phone calls (from White House officials). There are no talks going on.”
Everybody Chill Out, Slow Your Roll, Etc. On Bredesen
Posted on at 1:20 pmWhitehouse tells us what’s what on the Bredesen HHS chatter:
NashvillePost.com has been reluctant to weigh in on the speculation of Bredesen’s future because of conflicting signals from a number of sources. Locally, sources are saying it is a strong possibility but our D.C. sources have been saying that they haven’t heard that there are any legs to Bredesen’s chances.
Universally, our sources are saying right now that if Bredesen is going anywhere it is a bit soon to be saying so. That is the best information we can provide you at this time and will continue to monitor it closely.
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Bredesen Would Take HHS Job If He Could Run Wild With It
Posted on at 12:22 pmAndy Sher reporting:
“If it were a case of really being able to help in some fundamental way, something I really believe in which is to create universal health care, I certainly would think about it and talk about it,” Gov. Bredesen told Tennessee Press Association members Thursday night.
“If it’s a matter of administering a big, huge bureaucracy, I’ve already got that job,” Gov. Bredesen said.
Asked what he would do if President Barack Obama offered him the job, the governor said, “I’ll cross that bridge if I come to it.”
Does that sound like a man subtly campaigning for the job or is it just me?
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Bredesen Interviewed By Esquire
Posted on December 16, 2008 at 7:47 amDiscusses the Veep chatter surrounding him during the election season and why people may have been looking to him:
“It seems to me that the kids who always have their head up, looking around for the next opportunity, usually don’t do as well as the ones who put their head down and become really good at doing the job at hand. Being on those various short lists for vice president was sort of the ultimate proof of that, because I’ve been doing all these things that are supposed to make me unpopular.”
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Mulling Bredesen’s Bone
Posted on December 11, 2008 at 10:19 amSean Braisted reacts to the Governor’s comments on the race for TNDP party chair:
Coming from Bredesen’s office, that is about as full fledged and endorsement as you are going to get out of him considering his overwhelming desire to sit on the fence whenever possible. Considering quite a few people at the FRCR holiday party this past Tuesday knew about Bredesen’s support of Bone, I find it a bit hard to swallow that he is passively indifferent while leaning towards Bone.
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Bredesen To Walk Point On “McMansions” Talking Point In Ohio
Posted on August 21, 2008 at 1:21 pmNot really the guy I’d pick. From Barack Obama’s latest itinerary:
OH: Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen will talk about McCain losing track of how many homes he owns at events throughout southeast Ohio
Now, I can’t remember what Phil Bredesen’s net worth is off the top of my head but, suffice it to say, it’s substantial.
Why would Obama want Bredesen on this particular talking point?
That’s what he gets for bragging about being all populist and stuff, I suppose.
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The World Is His Blog
Posted on August 18, 2008 at 9:10 amAunt B. notes a certain blogger-like tendency on the part of our governor to shoot off at the mouth with less consideration than one might expect from a man in his position:
Our Governor literally has a blog (if one can “have” a blog if one only blogs, on average, twice a year), but I want to talk more about Bredesen’s blogger-like self-presentation. Am I the only one who has noticed that Bredesen runs around the real world acting like it’s his own personal blogosphere? I’m just thinking about how anyone who hangs around blogs for very long starts to notice that there are certain postures people adopt when blogging and commenting which, though I’m sure designed to make the posturer feel like Mr. McAwesome, leave the rest of us rolling our eyes.
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Not Even A Thought
Posted on August 5, 2008 at 7:06 amMany state employees say if Governor Bredesen wants their jobs, he needs to come and get them. They can’t afford to take the voluntary buyout:
“It’s not as much as I’d make in a year’s time, and I’ve been here for 10 years…a little over 10 years. With the bills I have, there’s no way, no way.”
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Passively, My Dear, I Don’t Give Damn
Posted on July 10, 2008 at 8:08 amStateline provides an analysis of governors who might have trouble translating their political success and popularity nationally:
Bredesen hasn’t actively distanced himself from the state Democratic party, yet observers say that his popularity, which remains high despite a revenue slowdown that has forced cuts, stems from his image as a businessman.
I don’t know. If Bredesen doesn’t consciously or “actively” distance himself from his party, his passive distancing sure packs quite the wallop from time to time, wouldn’t you say?
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TNGOP Engages In “Class Warfare” Over Budget
Posted on May 7, 2008 at 2:39 pmGOP Communications Czar Bill Hobbs throws a little dust on the Governor for announcing employee layoffs for workaday bureaucrats while leaving his top dog political appointees’ pay raises intact:
“Upper management making out like bandits and getting lavish party facilities while the rank-and-file stand to lose everything.Gov. Bredesen promised voters he’d run Tennessee like a business. We didn’t know he meant Enron,” said Hobbs.
Budget Issues To Prevent Cops From Acting As Judge And Jury
Posted on at 10:33 amGovernor Phil Bredesen has sent a letter to Senator Randy McNally requesting the withdrawal of a bill which would authorize police to take away a motor’s drivers license at the point of arrest on a DUI charge due to budget constraints:
Unfortunately it is not possible to dozens of new positions to administer this measure at the same time we are planning workforce reductions across government.
Read the full letter here which was sent to both the House and Senate sponsors of the legislation.
Last summer, Governor Bredesen embarrassingly praised administrative revocation as a legislative achievement before finding out it had not actually passed. He subsequently vowed to make the effort to pass such legislation a priority.
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