gubernatorial campaign

The Tennessee Highway Patrol now says it won't release the list of 182 targets of the unauthorized criminal background checks run by Lt Ronnie Shirley, the trooper with ties to the Bredesen administration. The THP's rationale: it claims the list is "evidence" in a possible criminal case.

A Louisiana Senator has her name taken off an Obama fundraiser event:

Landrieu campaign spokesman Scott Schneider told the Advocate that she was never supposed to be listed as a co-host.

Bill Gibbons is running for governor in 2010, IF:

Despite Bill Frist’s somewhat dubious national reputation acquired during his stint as Senate Majority Leader, some Democratic operatives in Tennessee fear what Frist would bring to the table in a Gubernatorial campaign:

Dangling enema bag Matt Pulle, of the effervescently douchetastic Nashville Scene, did what few have achieved in these partisan times of ours.

Congressman Lincoln Davis has unveiled a new congressional website that people can go to until his Gubernatorial campaign site is up:

“It is important to make it easier for those I serve to gather information about issues in our nation’s capital,” said Congressman Davis. “We’ve seen the internet used as an information resource at a steadily increasing rate, and this tool helps me stay connected and keep up with chan

From the Politico’s Jonathan Martin:

Graham Shafer, who had until last week served as Fred Thompson’s national field director, has joined Mitt Romney’s campaign and will lend a hand with the Feb 5th effort.

Shafer will work with political director Carl Forti to help organize the 21 states voting on Super Tuesday.

There is an observation from Molly Ivins' 2000 bestseller "Shrub: The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush" that seem relevant to the relationship between the mainstream media in Tennessee and Republican presidential candidate Fred Thompson.

Ivins writes of the media and Mr. Bush: