Short Answer: No

By Kleinheider Posted on April 3, 2009 at 12:52 am

Rep. Henry Fincher refuses to apologize to Rep. Brian Kelsey at the request of Rep. Glen Casada. Chairman Casada is not pleased:

“Mr. Speaker I would just like to remind the body that there is no room for disrespect, for making fun of people, for mocking people. This is a body of respect. If respect is not shown on the floor then maybe that individual does need to be in the chamber.”

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Remembering Tommy Burks

By Kleinheider Posted on April 2, 2009 at 9:11 pm

Rep. Henry Fincher on why he wants to carry his steel in the Plaza:

“On October 1998, a senator from Putnam County, my friend, Sen. Tommy Burks, was foully murdered on his home property by his opponent, his Republican opponent, who was running for his senate seat he was shot down dead we are in danger because of the positions we have to take so I certainly understand and agree that judges are in a difficult situation, I see that constantly. They have to make hard decisions about people’s families, their kids, and whether they are going to jail. I fundamentally disagree with the premise that we are not in danger because that danger was brought home in a very personal way to me and I take issue with that premise, Mr. Speaker.”

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Truth Is Always The Best Defense

By Kleinheider Posted on at 6:00 pm

The folks over at the politics sleepover camp downtown are getting a little rambunctious:

Fincher responded that Kelsey, of Germantown, was “mistaken on this, as he is on many other issues.”

That prompted House Republican Caucus Chairman Glen Casada of Franklin to demand an apology from Fincher.

Fincher, of Cookeville, refused. In Fincher’s words his statement about Kelsey was “completely warranted and a statement of objective fact.”

SEE ALSO: Can Kelsey

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