Monday, April 21, 2008

Maybe he needs to ask his pal LAMAR! for help with the Shelby County Budget!

Check this out. Here is a list of thirty people from around the state who claim to be Democrats who couldn't freaking wait to endorse LAMAR! for a another term in the US Senate. Five are from Shelby County, but I am particularly upset about one of them, and NOT the one you probably think.

Willie Herenton is NOT an elected Democratic official, and, to my knowledge, he is NOT serving as co-chair of any Democratic coordinated campaigns this year, so he gets a pass. Besides, after Don Sundquist, Jim Rout and LAMAR!'s original Senate campaign in 2002, it;'s old hat by now, and despite his protestations, he is for all intents and purposes an independent. That's fine with me, as he holds a non-partisan office. Besides, who the hell has he ever gotten elected besides himself, anyway, but I digress.

There is ONE elected official from Shelby County on that list, someone who was elected TWICE to their office as the nominee of the Democratic Party, yet, just like with Bill Gibbons' 2006 campaign for AG, he couldn't WAIT to endorse a Republican. His name is AC Wharton.

AC Wharton, who apparently believes he owes Republicans more for his two elections than Democrats. I know, he's term-limited, so what the hell can you do about it?

Me? Not a damn thing. However, the Shelby County legislative delegation, to whom he must turn in order to get permission to pass a payroll or privilege tax sure can, and don't think they haven't noticed. I don't care who he takes up there with him to lobby for this ability, it's DOA. Any leverage that our Democrats in Nashville may have had with the leadership went out the window when this got out. Yeah, I know this happened three months ago, but this is the sort of thing that festers over time.

What the hell possessed him to do this? Even if for some unknown reason he WANTED LAMAR! to win, he could have kept his damn mouth shut and disappeared whenever the Senate race came up for discussion.

I know, some of you are going to say, gee whiz, LAMAR!'s not like the other Goopers, he's part of the Baker-Alexander-Donelson Old Guard tradition and he's not knee-jerk. You see, he's not a maverick, either, and like others of that tradition, he has basically shut up and done what he's been told to do by the most reactionary GOP leadership since the beginning of their party in 1860. And he should be punished for this by removal from office this fall.

However, these weak-kneed Democrats ran to him just as soon as Mike McWherter chickened out of a challenge, and they should be ashamed of themselves for doing so. This is what Kos, Chris Bowers, Atrios and others are talking about when they say more and BETTER Democrats, Democrats who support progressive politics and positions and don't turn chickenshit at the first sign of trouble.

Because of this, Mayor Wharton, you have crapped in your own bed; now you're going to have to lie in it.

Say, I've got a thought; why don't you call your buddy LAMAR! and have HIM lobby the General Assembly for you? I'm sure he'd LOVE to help you get more tax revenue for Shelby County, because he would support any tax hike for OH, WAIT, he's a REPUBLICAN, he never met a tax hike he liked, except when HE was Governor. Oh well, I tried, the rest is up to you.
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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Excellent.

callmeishmael said...

Neither LAMAR! nor YOU! ever met an exclamation point YOU! didn't like, huh? Points well made and, as always, entertaining. Except that is when YOU!'re wrong, then it gets, well, lively.

Anonymous said...

LWC what do you expect, their all insiders. Their just scratching each others backs. Wilder has been doing it for a while. GOPers like Steve McDaniel have been doing it to Naifeh for a while as well. Its just the way the game is played sometimes.

Don said...

Cracker, Thank you for helping to bring attention to the deep and diverse support that Senator Alexander has among Tennesseans of all political backgrounds.

I do want to make sure you are aware that the list was 53 as of March 2 - including the following new local endorsers of Lamar!

* State Rep. John DeBerry of Memphis.
* Thomas Long, Memphis City Court Clerk.
* Donnie Mitchell, retired Director of Public Services and Neighborhoods for the city of Memphis.
* Bill Morris, former Shelby County Mayor.
* Liz Rincon of Memphis, a former campaign staffer for Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-9) and grassroots activist.

Full List of Independents and Democrats for Lamar

It is great to see that in a time of bitter and divisive partisanship, that Tennesseans can come together and agree that we are well represented in the Senate by Lamar Alexander.

Don't worry, there is still time for you to abandon your rage and join Senator Alexander in bringing Tennessee together. You could be number 54 :)

Steve Steffens said...

Thank you for providing the newest list of traitors, htmldon...

Bringing Tennessee together my ass, pal. He's an old Gooper hack that does what he's told by people with money, he is a barnicle on the good ship Tennessee.

Freedonian said...
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TN Solar said...

Lamar can also be proud to have made the list of the top 10 Fossil Fools in congress. Se article below:
Who stands between us and a clean-energy future? These guys." Chris Mooney" ;May 01, 2008"
First, the good news: Goofy global warming deniers like Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla.) have been thoroughly outed as cranks, and largely relegated to the ash bin of history. Today's most potent climate bad guys are more subtle creatures—those who, usually to court favor with a home-state constituency, are holding back the growth of a clean-energy economy. Few do so outright. But when we survey the current U.S. Congress and the political landscape more generally, it's clear that many individuals and organizations have helped preserve our moribund fossil-fuel-based energy system:

sen. lamar alexander (R-Tenn.) One of the most important renewable-energy industries that we must encourage is wind power. But Tennessee's senior senator has taken precisely the opposite tack, tilting at wind and even claiming it produces "puny amounts of high-cost unreliable power." Alexander has also introduced legislation that would remove tax credits for wind power, and in opposing the Senate rps, commented, "Forcing
Tennesseans either to build 40-story wind turbines on our pristine mountaintops or to pay billions in penalty taxes to the federal government amounts to a judge giving a defendant the choice to be hanged or shot."

For the full article go to:
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/05/fossil-fools.html

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