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The State of Dean's Speech is....Crapalicious
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Well, the reviews are in—Mayor Karl Dean's State of the Metro Address has been panned by both the City Paper and the Scene, the two papers that actually follow local politics.
The State of Dean's Speech Is....Crapalicious
Bill Frist To Give Blanton State House Run A Bump
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Republican State Committeewoman Barbara Blanton kicks off her campaign to unseat 62nd District state Rep. Jim Cobb in the pages of the Shelbyville Times-Gazette:
Blanton announces for state house seat
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Barbara Blanton has announced her candidacy for State Representative for House District 62 in the Aug. 7 Republican primary. Blanton, president of Rotary Club of Shelbyville, served for four years as...
Rotarians ask for whom the bell tolls
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The 86-year-old bell and gavel belonging to the Shelbyville Rotary Club are missing. Noon Rotary President Barbara Blanton filed a complaint with the police department that the historic bell had been...
A Tennessee Political Primer
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- Community
- blanton
- border state
- bredesen
- democratic control
- ed crump
- fourteenth amendment
- governorship
- john wilder
- machine politics
- meaningful story
- military governor
- misogyny
- nineteenth amendment
- political passions
- reconstruction period
- republican control
- revolutionary war
- state senate
- sundquist
- united states constitution
If you are an ideologue, living in Tennessee can be maddening. For all the talk about our fair state being a “red state”, such labels are superficial and do not tell any kind of meaningful story. We do not, nor have we ever run super-hot or super-cold. When it comes to political passions, Tennessee has always been lukewarm. A cursory look at our history bears this out.




