Former Senator And Gubernatorial Candidate Jim Bryson Started A Blog Yesterday
Posted on March 5, 2009 at 4:41 pmAnd, already, it is embroiled in controversy. House Democratic Leader Gary Odom and Rep. Ty Cobb have issued a press release denouncing today words Bryson penned not 12 hours ago on his blog. At issue is Bryson’s assertion that GM should “die with dignity.”
I feel bad for people who will lose their jobs. However, GM has been uncompetitive for a long time. When the government doesn’t allow non-competitive businesses to die, it undermines our economic system. It is time to allow GM to go into bankruptcy. If they can work out their issues and emerge, more power to them. If not, let more competitive company take over their assets and employees.
Odom and Cobb are calling for House GOP Caucus Chair Glen Casada specifically and the entire Williamson County delegation at large to rebuke the former legislator and constitutional officer candidate for his blog post.
UPDATE: Bryson reacts
Big Jim Wants To Have A Word With You
Posted on December 18, 2008 at 9:16 amAnd then he wants you to have a word with Senator Mark Norris. In an email to supporters, former Sen. Jim Bryson notes that Republicans are accepting public comment in the constitutional officers races and wants his folks to make sure that Norris knows that Bryson would make a fabulous Secretary of State:
The Republican legislative leadership is asking for public comment on the candidates. Senator Mark Norris’ office is collecting those comments and recommendations via email, fax, and phone calls regarding the constitutional offices. Please take time to send your thoughts regarding who you would like to see serving as your next Secretary of State, Comptroller, and Treasurer.
Senator Mark Norris’ Email: sen.mark.norris@legislature.state.tn.us
Senator Mark Norris’ Fax: (615) 253-0194
Senator Mark Norris’ Office Phone: (615) 741-1967
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Forget The Politics For A Moment
Posted on December 17, 2008 at 7:40 amGordon Belt wants to know how the candidates for Secretary of State will manage Tennessee’s State Library and Archives.
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Better Than The Anti-Bryson: Secretary Of State Candidate Denies Responsibility For Website
Posted on November 19, 2008 at 2:51 pmFormer gubernatorial candidate and state senator Jim Bryson makes clear in a conversation with Post Politics that he had nothing to do with a website touting his candidacy for the constitutional position of Secretary of State.
“I’m in the same position you are,” Bryson stated. “I’m trying to figure out exactly who this is and what it’s about. It’s professionally done and looks like something I might have done or put someone up to. That’s not the case.”
Bryson said he first found out about the site earlier this week when he was sent an email asking how long the site had been up.
Yesterday, after a few days of the website’s existence in the public domain, a press release was issued revealing the man behind the website, Joshua Pendergrass. Sen. Bryson says he believes he has met Mr. Pendergrass before but did not ask him to create the site and neither he nor his people have coordinated with him.
Bryson said he has tried to call Pendergrass to talk to him about the site but has not yet touched base with the apparent creator of the site.
“I certainly appreciate the interest and enthusiasm for my candidacy but the simple fact is that this election is about 132 votes. It is not a popular election,” explains Bryson. “This is about a lot of personal phone calls explaining my qualifications and what I plan to do in the office.”
Bryson was hesitant to speculate on whether this independent effort on his behalf would be helpful or hurtful in getting the requisite amount of votes for his candidacy in the legislature but was pleased to learn that the internet venture was for him and not against him.
“This isn’t the first time a website about me was created without my knowledge,” said Bryson referring implicitly to a negative blog attacking him during the 2006 Gubernatorial campaign. “At least this one is positive.”
Where’s Gratitude?: Ramsey Rejects Kurita For Secretary Of State
Posted on November 14, 2008 at 7:19 amWe talked about the growing discomfort among Republicans, particularly in the House, of the prospect of a Secretary of State Rosalind Kurita a few days ago.
Now, it would seem official. Rosalind Kurita is now not even being backed by the man she made Speaker:
Former Democratic state Sen. Rosalind Kurita, who staked her political future on supporting a Republican for speaker, now is being rejected by Republicans in her bid to become Tennessee’s secretary of state.
Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey, R-Blountville, whom then-Sen. Kurita helped elect as Senate speaker in 2007, confirmed Thursday that rank-and-file Republicans, as well as grass-roots activists, fiercely oppose Ms. Kurita’s election by lawmakers to the post.
“That’s true,” said Lt. Gov. Ramsey, who last week stated that Ms. Kurita, of Clarksville, would make a “great” secretary of state.
“Rosalind Kurita voted for me for lieutenant governor,” said Sen. Ramsey, who as Senate speaker also has the title of lieutenant governor. “I owed her at least a consideration there. That obviously is not going to happen, and I have no problem with that. Keep in mind I don’t appoint this position.”
So what do you think of this? Should Ramsey have backed her regardless of the rumblings on the right? Should he have expended some political capital for a woman who basically gave up her career to put him where he’s at?
Couldn’t Ramsey and Mumpower, who are close, have rounded up a few Republicans to commit to voting for Kurita in hopes that some Democrats, recognizing that Kurita is the best they’re gonna do, would vote for her also?
The likelihood that the Senate will refuse to seat the man the Democratic Party installed in her Senate seat is increasingly unlikely considering the leeway the law currently gives a party in choosing their nominee.
Has Ramsey just thrown Rosalind Kurita under the bus?
Sticking His Beak In: A Message From Jim Bryson
Posted on August 12, 2008 at 8:49 amFormer state Senator and Gubernatorial candidate Jim Bryson and, more importantly, his Political Action Committee, want to know what you’ve been up to:
Life has been very good to me and I’m thankful. Thank you for your friendship and your support. Words cannot adequately express how much that has meant to me.
I would love to hear what has been going on in your life since last we spoke. Please click on this link and update your contact information. Then reply to this email and let me know what is going on in your life. I want to do a better job of keeping in touch. I promise not to bombard your inbox but I will send out a note from time to time. Until we meet again, may God bless you.
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