Reporting From The TNGOP Statesmen’s Dinner

By Kleinheider Posted on July 28, 2008 at 8:13 am

Richard Locker reports from the closed to the press Republican Statesmen’s Dinner:

- Former White House senior political advisor Karl Rove told Tennessee Republicans the story of Sam Houston, the only man who ever served as governor of two states, as a metaphor for an unnamed president who grew unpopular with his people.

According to some who attended, Rove said Houston was wildly popular as the Texas governor (and former Tennessee governor) who helped lead Texas to independence from Mexico. But he was deposed as governor in 1860 because he opposed secession from the Union, an unpopular stand before the Civil War broke out — but a stand for which history later vindicated him.

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City Paper editorial
Sandra Clark
Photos by Blake Wylie
Protesters on hand
The Hobbs Report

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