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TNDP Chair Mary Mancini Welcomes County Delegates

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Dear Tennessee Democratic Party County Delegates, Hello! Thank you for participating in the Democratic National Committee Convention Delegate Selection Process. More people than ever before are involved this year, which reflects our two quality and very dynamic candidates – Secretary Hillary Clinton and Senator Bernie Sanders. The Tennessee Democratic Party works hard to reflect all […]

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Bill penalizes those filing sexual harassment lawsuits — if they lose

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Tennessee’s attorney general is pushing a revision in the rules for sexual harassment lawsuits at the same time he is investigating allegations of sexual harassment against Rep. Jeremy Durham, reports The Tennessean. This law change would specifically apply to people suing a state employee over sexual harassment claims, noted Tennessee House Democratic Caucus Chairman Mike […]

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The House ‘baby parts’ committee had its first hearing, and it was just a wacko as you’d expect

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The latest House Republican investigative boondoggle has lumbered into existence with the first hearing this week. It went off the rails nearly as much as the Benghazi committee’s Hillary Clinton interrogation, but with the added dash of crazy of it being about “baby parts.” Four of the six people called to testify at Wednesday’s hearing […]

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CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING

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What happens when, despite your best efforts, local school systems sue your state claiming a lack of adequate funding? You get nervous is what happens. Especially when three previous lawsuits claiming your state has underfunded schools have been successful. When a body like the Tennessee General Assembly faces a dilemma such as whether or not […]

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Analysis: Trump win trouble for Tennessee GOP establishment

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All is not well within the Tennessee Republican Party. At least, not if you’re an establishment Republican. That’s likely not a shock if you’ve followed politics to any degree in the Volunteer State in the past few years, but the depth and degree of that issue were further clarified with business mogul Donald Trump’s dominant […]

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Trump and Clinton claim big Super Tuesday victories in South

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Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Hillary Clinton swept through the South on Super Tuesday, claiming victory in their parties’ primaries in delegate-rich Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama and Virginia. The front-runners appeared ever more likely to end up in a general election showdown. On the Republican side, Ted Cruz won his home state of Texas, the night’s […]

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Ready or not, the Republican circus gets a new clown

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One of the more compelling concerns among Republicans worried about Donald Trump has to do with maturity: the New York developer just doesn’t have the temperament of an American president. Whatever his talents, Trump’s skill set doesn’t include displaying dignity and grace. It was a little unsettling, then, to see what’s become of Marco Rubio’s […]

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One-third of all U.S. presidents appointed a Supreme Court justice in an election year

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Eminent Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes famously described his fellow judges as “nine scorpions in a bottle,” but now they are reduced to eight. Justice Antonin Scalia’s passing had hardly been made public when Republicans began proclaiming that President Obama should not appoint the late justice’s successor. President Obama countered that he would perform […]

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