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Governor Bredesen, Senator John Wilder, Representative Johnny Shaw and others will be at the Governor’s endorsement of Randy Camp at the Fayette County Courthouse in Somerville, Monday August 18th at 3:30 p.m. Camp is running to replace fmr Lt. Governor Wilder in Senate District 26.

David Fowler of the Family Action Council of TN has circulated an email announcing his personal decision to vote “no” on the question of retaining the Tennessee Supreme Court and Appell

Clint Brewer today attempts to make the case that Senator John Wilder’s failure to extend the Tennessee plan for judicial selection was not a case of partisan politics, as Wilder himself asserted upon his defeat on the Senate floor, but instead was simply a case of senators following a tradition laid out by Senator Wilde

Fox 17 reveals that Senator John Wilder almost hung it up after he was defeated as Speaker in 2007:

The Tennessee Senate was unable to reach a compromise that would have wrested some control away from the lawyerly interests controlling the Tennessee Supreme Court picks under the so-called “Tennessee Plan.” Reformers sought to open up the commission meetings as well as the make-up of the body.

An inglorious end to a glorious career:

Ken Whitehouse reports this evening that Senator John Wilder has lost his fight, in his last legislative session, to preserve the Tennessee Plan for selecting Supreme Court and appellate judges.

Above is some very interesting discussion from yesterday’s debate on the Senate floor on a resolution which has been a pet project of Senator Rosalind Kurita for quite sometime.

Tennessee Republican Spokesman Bill Hobbs discusses the possibility that the GOP could take control in the State House:

Actually, changes of the Republican Party taking a majority in the state House are growing. Democrats currently hold a 53-46 edge, so Republicans need to pick up just four seats to gain a majority.