Thursday, December 08, 2005

Time to kick it up a notch

As Emeril Lagasse might say. I have been quiet for a while, but with filing deadlines for county races getting near, it's interesting to see who's picking up petitions.

Wanda Halbert has picked up petitions for THREE different races, Register (Inc - Tom Leatherwood - R), Criminal Court Clerk (Inc - Bill Key - R) and Juvenile Court Clerk (Inc - Steve Samson - R). it will be interesting to see which, if any, of those seats causes her to file.

Despite the recent ruling against term limits for county officials by the State Court of Appeals, Sidney Chism is going full speed ahead with his race for County Commissioner (IIRC, I believe he's pulled a petition for Cleo Kirk's seat) with a fundraiser scheduled for New Year's Eve.

That will be an interesting race should Commissioner Kirk be allowed to run again by the State Supreme Court; it will be one of the hottest Democratic primary races this May.

In unrelated news, The Cracker is now hooked up to the Tennessee BlogWire through LeftyBlogs.com, down and to the right; please peruse the links and the fine writers linked there.

2 comments:

Len said...

I see LeftyBlogs is as selective as the Memphis telephone directory if they let the Ford for 2006 campaign blog in there. There are many things I'd call Junior (though none of them are fit for polite company, so I won't mention them here), but "lefty" is most assuredly not one of them.

Steve Steffens said...

Yeah, but other than that, it's a pretty good list, more than just "anybody to the left of a batshit insane wingnut" kind of list.

Sharon Cobb's on there, as is Tennessee Guerrilla Woman, so it's OK, even if Young Mr. Jackson is on there.