Reflections on the election
Winner: Eddie Mannis, who battled through efforts by the county Republican Party to throw him off...
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Tag: Bill Hagerty
Winners and upsets
It’s not surprising that Bill Hagerty beat Manny Sethi for the GOP nomination for the U.S....
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Predicting a Sethi win; giving Oster the edge
Eddie Mannis is running against Gina Oster, but he’s also running against the Republican Party....
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See Spot run and other tales from the campaign trail
When a serious candidate for U.S. Senate insults his audience by speaking in 3-word soundbites …...
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It’s time to rethink self-government
There was one thing the Founding Fathers hated and feared the most and it was what we now call...
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Is Trump era bringing end to the Howard Baker Party?
What do these gentlemen have in common: Howard Baker, Winfield Dunn, Lamar Alexander, Fred...
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Manny against the Machine
It is a tangled tale; let’s try and sort it out. How does the cocktail party caucus retain control...
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How much is enough for a rainy day?
When Victor Ashe came into office as mayor in 1988 the city’s rainy day fund was $5 million...
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So you want to be a senator
We now know why it took former Gov. Bill Haslam so long to announce his decision not to run for...
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