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      <title>Comments On: Open-Mic Gaffe: Powerful Chairman Vows to Ram Workers&apos; Comp Bill Through His Committee
    
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      <![CDATA[This kind of rank politics would have never happened with Jimmy Naifeh as the Speaker of the House.
        
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      <![CDATA[Is the Recall Dead? <br>
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Think Every County should start one Today....
        
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      <![CDATA[The political activities of this State Rep. and Its Workers Comp program deserves close watch from Federal authorities designated to protect us from prohibited personnel practices.
        
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      <![CDATA[It just illustrates how deceptive GOP legislators can be. Contempt for the very people you are sworn to serve should disqualify this particular scallywag!
        
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      <![CDATA[I find it funny how they were scared of the open mic at the end. Subconsciously they knew their comments were stupid.
        
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      <![CDATA[Look what they did to unemployment compensation last time, in another "let's be for the employers of TN" move. They're emulating Florida, where the governor has backed legislation that makes it virtually impossible for many otherwise eligible people to be approved for unemployment benefits, and then announced that he's lowered the unemployment rate!
        
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    <author><![CDATA[stellabardo!]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[And the sickening sycophant woman who labels anyone who doesn't agree with Eldridge "uneducated." Really?
        
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      <![CDATA[This really doesn't surprise me about Jimmy Eldridge. I have been practicing workers' compensation in Tennessee for 29 years, and what the Governor is trying to ram down the throats of honest, hardworking people in the State of Tennessee is a disgrace!!
        
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    <author><![CDATA[SECSouthernSon]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Why get bent out of shape when a politician at least tells the truth?
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Valerie Ohle]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[He doesn't have to take time. A super majority of any power guarantees threats like this AND relieves the ruling (and yes, I mean RULING) lawmakers of any due deliberation or consideration of the long term impact or fairness of their actions.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Gregory D. Hanners]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Pride goeth before a fall - they will keep doing this until they crash and burn.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Just Observing]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[This is fair to them. We are in power and we can do what we want.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Eric A. Patton]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Why should they, Kevin? They have a honey badger super majority mentality.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Kevin Morgan Jones]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[After being caught making the comments, you would think that they would make sure to take their time with this bill to at least portray that they are trying to be fair
        
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      <![CDATA[How do these dolts always manage to discover new lows of contempt for anyone trying to earn a living and new ways of fawning all over the feet of biz pigs? Gotta be more careful who we elect.
        
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