Post Politics: 7 April 2008 - Afternoon Edition

By Kleinheider Posted on April 8, 2008 at 10:07 am

Brentwood’s Truman Bean suggests that Tom Leatherwood’s challenge to Marsha Blackburn for the Republican nomination in the 7th Congressional District may have more to do with geography than ideology.

A close aide to Hillary Clinton has resigned to spearhead the “Vote Both” movement, a push to promote a joint Hillary Clinton/Barack Obama ticket.

The New York Times discusses the rise of an “enlightened survivalism.”

Sen. Roy Herron will be introducing his bill to create a “nonsectarian, nonreligious academic study of the Bible” to the Senate Education Committee on Wednesday.

Les Jones asks this question in light of the recent controversy over the openness of the state’s gun permit database: “[I]f you were a crazy ex-husband who wanted to kill your ex-wife in defiance of an order of protection, wouldn’t you want to know if she has a permit to carry? More importantly, wouldn’t you want to know where she had moved to in order to get away from you?”

A liberal Memphis blogger is dismayed that Congressman John Tanner will not face a challenge in the 8th District Democratic primary but hopes he will use the opportunity to share his substantial war chest to help elect more Democrats around the country.

ORNL and the State of Tennessee will partner to built on of the world’s largest supercomputers with a $65 million dollar assist from the National Science Foundation.

Sean Braisted takes issue with the description of Sen. Rosalind Kurita’s Democratic primary opponent as a political novice.

An interesting debate on the concept of grandparent rights at KnoxvilleTalks.

The Rutherford County Board of Education will provide relief to its contract bus drivers in light of escalating gas prices.

Ron Paul supporter and Libertarian candidate for the state House in District 58, Lisa Leeds, shares her political evolution to the revolution in a recent e-mail to supporters: “I have been involved in some way, shape or form in politics since I turned 18. I worked on the Mondale campaign that year, and other campaigns through the years. In 2004, I worked on the Kerry Campaign and this when I came to see the light I did in fit the mold of a Democrat.”

A state comptroller’s audit reveals that the Sportsmen’s Wildlife Foundation has not been been efficient or effective in “establishing and administering” programs as proscribed by legislation which earmarked monies from the sale of a state specialty license plate. The Sportsmen’s Wildlife Foundation was founded by former state Rep. H.E. Bittle of Knoxville who also sponsored the legislation directing monies for the plate sales to the organization.

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Tags: H.E. Bittle, Marsha Blackburn, Rosalind Kurita, Tom Leatherwood