Monday, August 01, 2005

I doubt THIS is good news

Per the CA, Barry Myers has pleaded guilty to two charges for his involvement in the TENNESSEE WALTZ sting operation. Given that he was originally charged with ELEVEN counts, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that he cut a deal to sing like a canary against Roscoe Dixon and Kathryn Bowers.

Well, unless we see several other pleas in rapid succession, this probably means that the investigation and the trial will be following the Party around like the Flying Dutchman for the next year, even though we've had a change of leadership. Don't think for one second that the Tennessee Republican Party isn't getting TV ads ready RIGHT NOW to drill us with this in 2006.

Ayayayayayayayay.

3 comments:

polar donkey said...

Well we could just grab this problem by the horns and clean up our party. It's not just Bowers, Ford, and Dixon. Jimmy Neifahe has his stench and as long as the representatives stay in bed with lobbyist, special interests, and don't get a decent salaries there will always be rumors of corruption. If democrats don't want to reinforce the public's trust in government, let republicans run attack ads. I am loyal to my party but it gets trumped by the good of the state and nation. I'm an agnostic but if an elected official doesn't want to help clean-up this state, well he/she can burn in hell for all I care. Obviously, these elected officials don't deserve the offices they hold. Plus, republicans are hardly beacons of clean government. Think the Gregories and all their Kentucky, big pharma-money. In addition, the fundraising tactics of Delay have permeated every level of the republican party. That lady who ran against Bowers in the state senate race didn't even know where her campaign money came from. If you want clean elected officials, have public financed elections. Democracy ain't free but it shouldn't be bought by the rich and powerful.

Steve Steffens said...

this is why it have to come from within the Party itself and not leave it to the elected officials, who will not clean up after themselves....

polar donkey said...

It is actually not that hard to make politicans address publicly funded elections. Turn it into a crisis. That's the reason almost every political issue gets addressed. That NBF statue has been there forever. It became an issue again because it was made a crisis. If the damn Tennessee Waltz investigation can't be turned into a crisis what can? How do you think clean money elections got passed in Arizona and Maine? Are people just smarter in Maine and Arizona? If any city in America needs clean money elections its Memphis for godsakes. This is what drives me crazy about Memphis. If anybody has an idea, you have to battle apathy and general negativity that nothing can get done in this city. By progressives getting a foothold on the Shelby County Democratic party EC, issues like the Living Wage are much closer to getting addressed politically. Mobilize people, try to educate the populace, frame the issue, and then manufacture a crisis.
What, are we afraid republicans are going to come into the city and win publicly funded elections? Please, the last thing a republican wants to take part in is a clean money election. So now all we have to do is change our own party. Isn't that why people all these new people showed up to the caucus and convention. Stop saying why things can't get done and start fighting. The only thing that can happen is the city gets better because it sure can't get any worse.