What about your state legislature ?
The GOP is supposed to be about local politics.
oh the state legislature is FINALLY republican. in 2008 we had a 1 seat majority, first time we had a majority in the house (so it's my contention that the dixiecrats did not join the republican part since we got a majority after say 40 years of Nixon's southern strategy)
But we finally got it in 2008 and kent williams, sold us out. He got every democrat to vote for him for speaker, so they could split the committee chairmenships. In 2010 we elected more republicans and he's no longer the speaker..
Williams was elected as speaker of the Tennessee House on January 13, 2009, in a surprising divergence from the Republican party's accepted plan for succession.
Democrats, who had lost the majority in the House for the first time since 1969, threw their support behind Williams as a means of keeping House
Majority Leader Jason Mumpower out of the office.
[7][8][9] Williams, one of 50 Republicans in the 99-seat House, voted for himself alongside the assembly's 49 Democrats to clinch the position, defeating Mumpower by a vote of 50 to 49.
[10] Outgoing speaker
Jimmy Naifeh instructed the House clerk to depart from the normal practice of conducting a
roll call of the members in alphabetical order, instead calling first on the Democrats, then on the Republicans. This allowed Williams to vote last, so that before he voted he knew that his vote for himself would be the deciding vote. After the vote he was booed
[10] and called a "traitor." Subsequently, Williams voted with the Democrats to elect Democrat
Lois DeBerry as speaker pro-tem over Republican
Beth Harwell.
And this is why I love playing with liberals that just soak up the indoctrination of racial politics....they dont know anything about the "southern" strategy, except what their teachers tell them, and they arent biased...naaaaaaaaah
