underground party

The Daily News Journal reports on the Republican attempting to bring the 48th state House seat home for their party:

Joe Carr, Jon Jaques and Lou Ann Zelenik are vying to steal Hood’s seat away from the Democrats.

No she is not talking about the great civil rights battle but a bigger more important issue to her. The battle for the first lady to get her giant underground party room at the mansion. The scene has the details.

In language usually reserved for military engagements or tragedies like Virginia Tech, first lady Andrea Conte amps up the rhetoric for us Tennessee hayseeds who don’t believe spending millions on an underground party bunker is really a wise investment of Tennessee taxdollars.  

Well, at least the Democrats in the State of Tennessee are finally being honest. You simply must check out the stupid, elitist, arrogant quote of the year from Democrat standout State Representative Johnny Shaw.

When I first heard about Bredesen's Bunker, I didn't sympathize with the petulant neighbors worried about a little disturbance in their perfect lives, but I tho

Tom Humphreys has a Knoxville News Sentinel story on the continuing battle over the Bredesen Underground party bunker.

This project at this time has got to be about the biggest boondoggle idea since "The children's interactive broccoli museum".

Phil Bredesen believes that the Lieutenant Governor should be an elected position. Andrew thinks this is sour grapes:

Tennessee's hyper-sensitively thin-skinned Gov. Phil Bredesen lashed out at Lt. Gov. Rob Ramsey yesterday because Ramsey had the temerity to question the spending of more than $10 million in tax dollars to build a lavish underground party ballroom at the Governor's Mansion. WSMV reports...

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It looks as if regular people from both political viewpoints are starting to notice the waste that is the underground party bunker. Word is people are starting to honk their horns when near the state capitol in fashion similar to the income tax fight to show their displeasure with the overinflated, unneeded project

The Memphis Commercial-Appeal's legislative reporter, Richard Locker, updates the Bredesen Ballroom controversy in a big story today that glosses over some key facts.