bob clement

The City Paper has a lengthy article detailing Jim Cooper's support for Obama the man, but not so much Obama the vehicle for a center-left policy agenda. Which got me to thinking, what if Obama taps Jim Cooper to join his cabinet if he's elected? Would Rep. Cooper rather spin his heels as the Ron Paul of the Democratic party?

The controversial school board rezoning vote punctuated by charges that the Chamber of Commerce masterminded the plan to move north Nashville students to the inner city Pearl Cohn cluster is blowing up into a media conflagration and now so-called "liberals"

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Among other things, it appears, a (semi) serious profile treatment from the dean of Tennessee politics, Tom Humphrey:

Day late and a dollar short on this one...I meant to post this yesterday.

Well, this isn't exactly the kind of support you'd be looking for in a Democratic primary.

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Twas an eventful weekend for Democrats in Tennessee. Both the annual Jackson Day dinner and the National YDA conference were held downtown, and Gov. Phil Bredesen spoke at both.

Mayor Karl Dean continues what looks like an administration against neighborhoods, and CM Mike Jameson seems to have had enough of that. Jeff Woods relates what happened yesterday during a Planning Department budget hearing:

Lobbyist Tom Lee's clumsy dust-up with Will Pinkston, a top aide to Gov. Phil Bredesen, reminded me of another time Lee's firm found itself on the wrong end of an inane political firestorm.