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The problem with writing a post about Happy Hour on your lunch break is the cruel reality that you’re still half a day away from Happy Hour. Then there are things that happen between the time I’m writing this and when it’s going to post, like, oh I dunno, the 3pm presser with Willie...
With just under 10 days before the beginning of early voting, some of the races are really starting to heat up. Outside of the Governor’s race and the 9th District primary, the two races I’m following closest are in TN-08 and TN-06. I call these races the “Open Seat Challenge”. Both seats were held...
Well, yesterday was kinda fun. A couple of hours after I published this post, Jackson Baker at the Memphis Flyer took the ball and ran with it noting that another candidate has been suspiciously absent from the state’s largest county. In a comment to that article, one person opined that perhaps Stephen Fincher (Who...
In a campaign release yesterday, TN-08 Democratic candidate, Roy Herron, came out against turning the Milan Army Ammunition Plant into a nuclear waste storage facility. From the release: Herron, a candidate for Congress in Tennessee’s 8th District, said, “This is an outrage. Let’s not sell our souls for a handful of jobs and the...
Nick Beadle of the Jackson Sun is on the case with more: Last week I wrote that a Memphis-area Tea Party group was complaining that Republican Stephen Fincher had not returned their calls about a debate in Bartlett but Democrat Roy Herron was talking with them about participating in the event. According to an...
The CA’s Bart Sullivan is all over this one: Republican congressional candidate Stephen Fincher’s receipt of $3.2 million in federal crop subsidies since 1999 is likely to be a major issue in a year of Tea Party political ascendancy within the GOP. Some see Fincher’s receipt of subsidies as a potential conflict of interest...
Dr. George Flinn, he of the County Commission, Flinn Broadcasting and a race for the 8th Congressional District is moving from East memphis, says Zack McMillan in Sunday’s CA, but apparently closer to Midtown than anywhere in the District he seeks to represent. While it is NOT a requirement for a Congressman to live...
What an eventful 24 hours it’s been. Yesterday some good friends got married, which was followed by some frivolity at the expense of our livers, with the musical stylings of Papa Top’s West Coast Turnaround carrying us forward into the wee hours of the afternoon. After which, we scattered, covered, smothered, and chunked our...