committee member

But one of our state legislators may be. Andy Sher reports on the coming battles over the budget due to revenue shortfall and economic uncertainty:

The Clarksville Leaf Chronicle posted a letter from a perturbed constituent of Rosalind Kurita's who doesn't much like her hissy-fit lawsuit which names every TNDP Exec Committee member, including those who voted for her, as a defendant:

Speaker Pro Tempore Rosalind Kurita

State of Tennessee

STATEMENT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Pam George

Phone: (615) 741-2374

A few words from Rosalind Kurita on the tri-county Democratic Executive Committee meeting tomorrow:

Hat tip to Randy Neal at KnoxViews via Michael Silence.

Senate Foreign Relations Committee member Senator Bob Corker speaks upon his return from a trip to the Republic of Georgia:

The Service Employees International Union, a "host committee member" and "an official sponsor" of last week's Democratic National Convention, has other ethical problems beyond recent charges of double-crossing students.

Tom Humphrey reports:

Bill Owen, a DNC committee member and former state senator from Knoxville, said Tennessee law requires that a person designated as a pledged delegate follow through by voting for his or her candidate on the first ballot.

College students allege that the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) encouraged them to help organize food service workers, using rallies and even hunger strikes, while SEIU made deals with their employers to insure that there would never be unions at some state schools.

Last Thursday, the Promptness subcommittee of the Tennessee Study Committee on the Administration of the Death Penalty met for several hours with some compelling testimony and discussion.