Before there was Newscoma, LeftWingCracker, or anyone else blogging in this state, there was SouthKnoxBubba, which eventually became KnoxViews. It was SKB's writing that inspired me to start this blog after John Kerry's defeat in 2004, and I was crushed when the blog was taken down.
Then, I rejoiced when KnoxViews was started, and it is still going strong today. Randy Neal (the TRUE Blogfather of Tennessee, in my opinion) is the founder of that blog and the original SKB, and you should be reading KnoxViews. Go read it and thank him for being a true inspiration to all of us who write about progressive politics in this state.
Randy, if you hadn't started SKB, I doubt I ever would have started LWC. Thank you.
Showing posts with label Tennessee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tennessee. Show all posts
Friday, February 01, 2013
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Everyone is missing the point on Senator Campfield
Look, I know every bill he puts out is FILLED to the rim with TEH CRAZY, and he is now made out to be a national laughingstock, which, well, he should be by now. Our friends at the Tennessee Equality Project have even created a Stacey Campfield Counseling Fund to which you can contribute, allowing The Senator to be used as a prop for fund-raising, and bully for them on that.
However, while The Senator comes up with crazier and crazier bills to file, and we react to them, even though they are not likely to pass, we ignore that the GOP-dominated body is busy screwing over non-millionaires with every other action they take.
They are trying to pass legislation that would give the STATE, not local school boards, control over whether charter schools should be opened in their municipalities and counties. The TGA is gutting every possible protection for municipal workers and teachers (oh, wait, they already DID that), and, in short, doing everything possible to take Tennessee back to 1898 except Jim Crow (and they would do that if they could).
What Campfield also does is move the goalposts, so that what he proposes is SO beyond the pale that no one notices the REAL damage that a GOP-dominated legislature does to our society. It's not all about business, either. The Lege is still trying to pass, at the NRA's insistence, a bill that would allow workers to bring their guns onto the parking lots of their employers, which the state's largest employers are fighting, with good reason.
Yes, friends, this is what you get when you get a GOP-controlled legislature. Whether you agree with the TNDP's election of Roy Herron or not, (and, frankly, I didn't), you need to get involved in any way possible to assist the TNDP and the SCDP (or, if you're not in Big Shelby, your local county Party) in trying to turn the state around from the backward march this Legislature is leading.
Our future depends upon it. Unless, of course, you LIKE living in the Dark Ages.
However, while The Senator comes up with crazier and crazier bills to file, and we react to them, even though they are not likely to pass, we ignore that the GOP-dominated body is busy screwing over non-millionaires with every other action they take.
They are trying to pass legislation that would give the STATE, not local school boards, control over whether charter schools should be opened in their municipalities and counties. The TGA is gutting every possible protection for municipal workers and teachers (oh, wait, they already DID that), and, in short, doing everything possible to take Tennessee back to 1898 except Jim Crow (and they would do that if they could).
What Campfield also does is move the goalposts, so that what he proposes is SO beyond the pale that no one notices the REAL damage that a GOP-dominated legislature does to our society. It's not all about business, either. The Lege is still trying to pass, at the NRA's insistence, a bill that would allow workers to bring their guns onto the parking lots of their employers, which the state's largest employers are fighting, with good reason.
Yes, friends, this is what you get when you get a GOP-controlled legislature. Whether you agree with the TNDP's election of Roy Herron or not, (and, frankly, I didn't), you need to get involved in any way possible to assist the TNDP and the SCDP (or, if you're not in Big Shelby, your local county Party) in trying to turn the state around from the backward march this Legislature is leading.
Our future depends upon it. Unless, of course, you LIKE living in the Dark Ages.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
We Welcome Quips of Yellow to THE ENDLESS BLOGROLL
Heads up to the newest Tennessee blogger, Quips of Yellow, good posts being written over there, go check them out!
Monday, June 15, 2009
We welcome OpenPen to THE ENDLESS BLOGROLL
I apologize to Janet Meek and her wonderful collection of writers at OpenPen, which includes Mark Naccarato and Liberadio's Mary Mancini, for not putting them up until now, they are awesome, and they are based in EAST TENNESSEE.
Mark has a great post up now about the cost of NOT fixing healthcare, go there now.
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Tuke for Tennessee
Tuke for Tennessee
Bob Tuke finally has his website up in his Senate race (H/T to Sharon Cobb), and I hope you'll go over there and take a look at it, and sign up for email updates. So far, among elected officials from Big Shelby, only Lois Deberry has signed up with the former TDP Chair, but I hope more will follow.
Yes, he also supports Obama, that's an added bonus. Go give him a shout out!
Update: here's the announcement video:
Bob Tuke finally has his website up in his Senate race (H/T to Sharon Cobb), and I hope you'll go over there and take a look at it, and sign up for email updates. So far, among elected officials from Big Shelby, only Lois Deberry has signed up with the former TDP Chair, but I hope more will follow.
Yes, he also supports Obama, that's an added bonus. Go give him a shout out!
Update: here's the announcement video:
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