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STATE EDITORIAL ROUNDUP: Can't ignore texting while driving - The Daily News Journal
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 13:41:42 GMT

STATE EDITORIAL ROUNDUP: Can't ignore texting while driving
The Daily News Journal
30: The Paris Post-Intelligencer on recruiting celebrity candidates: Licking their wounds, Tennessee Democrats are looking around for somebody — anybody — who would stand a ghost of a chance of winning some prominent political office. US Sen.

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Legislators move from lobbied to lobbyists - The Tennessean
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:11:43 GMT

Legislators move from lobbied to lobbyists
The Tennessean
The Tennessean was able to identify 22 living former members of Congress from Tennessee. Of those, at least 10 have worked as lobbyists, and two who left Congress last year — Democrats Bart Gordon and John Tanner — are now in a position to do so in ...

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Staying close to power - The Tennessean
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 08:23:08 GMT

Staying close to power
The Tennessean
At least a dozen former members of Congress from Tennessee are working, have worked or could start working soon as lobbyists in the very chambers where they used to serve the public, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, ...

Blue Dog Democrat Rep. Heath Shuler retires - Fox News
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:15:27 GMT

ABC News (blog)

Blue Dog Democrat Rep. Heath Shuler retires
Fox News
"I have always said family comes first, and I never intended to be a career politician." In brief comments off the House floor, Shuler added "I'm putting undue stress on my wife. I feel very much at peace." Shuler decided on Tuesday that he would not ...
NC Democratic congressman Heath Shuler says he won't seek re-election to HouseWashington Post
Heath Shuler, Moderate Democrat from North Carolina, Announces He Won't Seek ...ABC News (blog)
NC's Heath Shuler won't seek re-election to HouseSTLtoday.com

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Gingrich outlines a Southern revival strategy - CNN International
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:32:44 GMT

Telegraph.co.uk

Gingrich outlines a Southern revival strategy
CNN International
The 10 contests that day include primaries in Georgia, Gingrich's home state, and neighboring Tennessee -- Southern states that border South Carolina, where Gingrich scored his only victory so far. "Our goal is to get to Super Tuesday, where we're in ...
Gingrich continues offensive against RomneyBoston Globe
GOP Presidental Candidates Turn To OhioWLWT Cincinnati
The limits of Paul-ism, exposedSalon

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Tenn. Democrats call for good government reforms, Republicans decry election ... - The Republic
Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:48:02 GMT

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Tenn. Democrats call for good government reforms, Republicans decry election ...
The Republic
Democratic leaders insist their proposals are designed to promote good government. But Republicans charge the measures are election-year games. "I'd be glad to look at any suggestions they have, but they're playing politics," House Majority Leader ...
Democrats propose biennial legislative sessionsThe Tennessean
Democrats' ideas deserve thoughtParis Post Intelligencer
Gallup: Number Of States That Are Solidly Democratic Drops SignificantlyThe New Civil Rights Movement
Daily Mail - Charleston (blog)
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TN Democrats seek celebrity to challenge Corker - The Tennessean
Sun, 29 Jan 2012 08:13:31 GMT

TN Democrats seek celebrity to challenge Corker
The Tennessean
Photo courtesy of Tom Neff How do you compete in a statewide race when your party's best-known politicians have decided they've got better things to do than challenge an incumbent, well-funded US senator? That's one tack the Tennessee Democratic Party ...

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TN Democrats seek celebrity to challenge Corker - The Tennessean
Sun, 29 Jan 2012 02:30:16 GMT

TN Democrats seek celebrity to challenge Corker
The Tennessean
Sanford Myers/The Tennessean How do you compete in a statewide race when your party's best-known politicians have decided they've got better things to do than challenge an incumbent, well-funded US senator? That's one tack the Tennessee Democratic ...

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Outrage subdued after DJ goes on racially charged rant on GOP congressional ... - Fox News
Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:24:50 GMT

Fox News

Outrage subdued after DJ goes on racially charged rant on GOP congressional ...
Fox News
As for her treatment on air, which she described as "racist" and abusive, she said it stems from the notion that black politicians should uniformly be Democrats. Bergmann is running in Tennessee's 9th District, which is mostly black.

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Special Report: Bloomberg reloads in push for gun control - Reuters
Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:56:53 GMT

Special Report: Bloomberg reloads in push for gun control
Reuters
"We have to face the fact that both Democrats and Republicans have for a while viewed this as the third rail of American politics," said John Feinblatt, who helps run MAIG as Bloomberg's chief advisor for policy and strategic planning.

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