Admiring Andrew Jackson

By Kleinheider Posted on April 26, 2009 at 5:47 pm

Governor Phil Bredesen on a recent award presented him at the Hermitage:

“I’m very, very pleased by this, Andrew Jackson is a man I admire very, very much. He’s had different connections to my own life that I am going to talk about tonight. To have this first award given by the Hermitage means a lot to me and being able to share (the night) with Jon Meacham who won a Pulitizer prize this week for his work on Andrew Jackson is a great honor. He is a great writer. He’s an inspiration to me. You can actually have a real job and do other things. I’m very pleased. I have a copy of his book. I have had it signed by him. I’m not going to confessed to you that I have read it because I haven’t. My job gets in the way of things I would love to do.”

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Tags: Andrew Jackson, Hermitage, Jon Meacham, Phil Bredesen  

One Day, And This Day May Never Come, We’re Gonna Call On You To Break Some Ties

By Kleinheider Posted on March 2, 2009 at 10:51 am

Rep. Mike Turner on what the House Democratic Caucus expects from the Carter County Republican Speaker:

“Our goal is to have (voting) ties. The only person who can break ties at this time: we put him in the position, My job is to tell (Speaker Kent Williams) who put him there. I’m not his best friend. Gary Odom has a lot of clout with the Speaker (Williams) as does Speaker Jimmy Naifeh. Which is coming from the extremes on our side. One has one ear; the other one’s got the other. My job is to tell the Speaker (Williams) when he has irritated us on something. They kicked him out of the Republican party. They have not kicked him out of the Republican caucus. All that stuff is in a flux. We don’t know if he’ll be real active, going around trying to break ties. if he is that could cause real problems. Hopefully, on the real regressive stuff we can hold ‘em to three-three, five-five, or six-six on the various committees.

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Tags: Carter County Republican, Hermitage, Kent Williams, legislative breakfast, Mike Turner