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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