phil bredesen

Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen - who has made news a lot this campaign season by stating the obvious - that Democrats don't have a chance to beat incumbent U.S. Sen.

Kind words from Phil Bredesen for John McCain:

A potential Veep for Barack Obama discusses the possibility of delivering her state and the State of Tennessee for the Presidential ticket of Barack Obama:

John Rodgers reports that a war funding bill may help save workers in the Department of Children’s Services here in Tennessee:

From McClatchy:

Gov. Phil Bredesen of Tennessee said that would be a “tough state” for Obama to win. But he urged Obama to go to a waffle restaurant there and find a way to reach rural, white working-class voters, who largely rejected him in the Democratic primaries.

Tim Chavez senses some underlying uneasiness with the progressive leadership of Fifth District Congressman Jim Cooper and suggests an electoral challenge:

This kind of thing really chaps my ass:
A historic but decaying church in Denmark will be saved with the help of a grant from the Tennessee Department of Transportation.

The former Denmark Presbyterian Church on Denmark-Jackson Road has not been active since 1998 but is included on the National Register of Historic Places.

Gov. Phil Bredesen is scheduled to visit Denmark today to make a grant

Sarcastro offers our Honorable Phil Governor a bit of advice on how to decide which state employees get his budget-cutting buyout:

In a speech to Rotarians, Phil Bredesen makes clear that while he may have his problems with it, he backs the Tennessee Plan for selecting judges:

Oh, it ain’t nothin’!  Just John Ford being John Ford, right?  I don’t have time this morning to do too much digging, but if I’m not mistaken, Bredesen at first remembered his conversation with Ford about the contracts. Then a subsequent report said that Bredesen didn’t remember.  Now he remembers again.