People Are Talking To Matt Kisber About Running For Governor

By Kleinheider Posted on January 17, 2009 at 2:30 pm

No word on who initiated the conversation:

Meanwhile, state Economic and Community Development Commissioner Matt Kisber said he has “had some people talking to me about it (running for governor).” He said he remains “focused on the job I’m doing and I’ll wait to see what happens in the months ahead.”

Mr. Kisber played one of the leading roles among local, state and federal officials involved in landing the VW auto assembly plant to Chattanooga’s Enterprise South industrial park. The plant is expected to cost $1 billion and employ 2,000 people initially.

The commissioner said, “I’ve learned in politics not to rule anything out. But I’ve got my hands full in what I’m doing right now, and it’s important to focus on what’s in front of me.”

(via Uncle Milty)

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TNGOP Engages In “Class Warfare” Over Budget

By Kleinheider Posted on May 7, 2008 at 2:39 pm

GOP Communications Czar Bill Hobbs throws a little dust on the Governor for announcing employee layoffs for workaday bureaucrats while leaving his top dog political appointees’ pay raises intact:

“Upper management making out like bandits and getting lavish party facilities while the rank-and-file stand to lose everything.Gov. Bredesen promised voters he’d run Tennessee like a business. We didn’t know he meant Enron,” said Hobbs.

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