Extracting His Pound Of Frist: Sasser To Debate Daddy’s Decapitator [UPDATED]

By Kleinheider Posted on September 30, 2008 at 11:38 am

UPDATE: Senator Bill Frist will not be appearing at this event. Gray Sasser will participate in a panel discussion with Carol Swain, Bill Ivey and Beth Harwell at noon on Sunday. WPLN’s Jacqueline Fellows will serve as co-moderator and the broadcast will be made available to BBC World Wide stations. Post Politics apologizes for the misinformation.

In yet another fun little warm-up to Tuesday’s Presidential Debate at Belmont University, two players in Tennessee politics will debate each other at the Frist Center this Sunday. However, unlike Jim Cooper and Bill Haslam, the two participants in this war of words have a history.

Gray Sasser was only 25 in 1994 when Senator Bill Frist riding a populist conservative rage of discontent unseat his Democratic Senate Leader-in-waiting father, Jim, in the race for U.S. Senate race that year.

This Sunday morning, Post Politics has learned, Gray Sasser, now the chair of the Tennessee Democratic Party, will finally get his change at revenge by coming into Bill Frist’s “house” to debate the prospective candidate for Governor on domestic policy.

The debate will be be broadcast locally on WPLN but will also beam out over the globe on BBC’s worldwide radio network. Be ready for fireworks.

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Post Politics: 16 April 2008 - Afternoon Edition

By Kleinheider Posted on April 17, 2008 at 11:42 am

What’s in a name: A Chattanooga poultry plant gets raided by Immigration Control and Enforcement Agency. A plant run by a company named “Pilgrim’s Pride.”

Today is the last day to sign up for Debix, the identity theft monitoring company which Metro contracted with to provide free services for registered voters after the Metro Election Commission was compromised during a Christmastime theft.

The Tennessee Democratic Party points out that if you subtract monies raised by Senator Lamar Alexander during a major fundraiser where the President of the United States was the star attraction then he only raised $50,000 more than one of his his Democratic opponents during the same period.

Praise Lamar!: Newt Gingrich shows a bit of love for Lamar new flat tax proposal.

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