Thursday, January 15, 2009
Politics / Woods Jason Mumpower's Keepsakes
Posted by Jeff Woods on Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 10:16 AM
Yet another heartbreaking tale from the Republican day of infamy: On Tuesday, Jason Mumpower ordered 65 flags flown over the Tennessee Capitol as keepsakes for his big moment in the sun. But as the flags fluttered outside, the outfoxed Mumpower could only slump in his chair beside his distraught mother inside the Capitol, clutching the family bible he planned to use to take the oath of office as speaker of the House. What will he do with those flags now?
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He could sell them as a premium to big republicans on eBay - "these flags represnent the state stolen from republicans" or whatever...
Let me just say that I watched the taped version of the January 13, 2009 elections which took place in the TN House! Till then I thought I had seen the lowest level to which democrats could stoop but I was wrong. Mr. Williams deserves to be ousted from the Republican party as he is the new poster child for everything that is wrong with our political justice system. And as for Mr. Odom, I recommend some new tax dollars for a better hair piece! Let's give all of the democrats the four years they so despairingly hope for. I doubt the country will make the same mistake twice.
I saw more honor and integrity in Jason Mumpowers composure that day than I ever expect to see in the elderly man who was thrown at all Tennessean's. It's a dark day for Tennessee!
DAnderson
Sullivan County, TN
Jason will likely trade-in all of his 65 Tennessee flags for some more Spidey-Man comic books...
Rep. Stacey Campfield has stated on his blog that Rep. Jason Mumpower had "over 100 flags" ordered to be flown over the Tennessee state capitol building and that these Mumpower flags were intended as "gifts" for all the members of the Tennessee Republican Party State Executive Committee - perhaps this is the real reason that the TRPSEC is miffed at Williams: the SEC didn't get their socialistically-flown (i.e.: flown at taxpayers' expense) Tennessee state flags from their idealized TNGA House Speaker Jason Mumpower"
"...I was talking to an SEC member last night. While they wished to remain anonymous they said they did not expect a vote to allow Kent Williams back into the party to even come up for a vote at the next SEC meeting.
I asked why.
The response was Williams disastrous meeting with the Shelby county and surrounding county SEC committee members. I had heard rumor of the meeting a few weeks back but asked for details from someone who was actually there.
What happened? I asked.
What I heard after that confirmed what I had heard previously and was almost a comedy of errors or a lesson on how to alienate Republicans of all stripes. While I could go on and on as to what was said I will only pass on some of the highlights.
One question posed to Kent was why he didn't appoint more Republicans to committee chairs. His response was that we didn't have 13 out of 49 Republican members who were even qualified to be chairs of the committees. He then went on to even name specific Republican members (While I was not personally on the short list I know the members named and most would consider those named way more then qualified).
The person who relayed the story to me said they thought personally if the members mentioned were not qualified to be chairmen of committees then how could Kent think he was qualified to be speaker of the house after only one term in office.
Kent then went on to name off more Republican members (Again, I was not on the list) and say they were "Bad" or "problem" members. The people present wondered if Kent was just pulling names out of thin air because those mentioned were, and are, well thought of members.
He went on to attack Jason Mumpower for being "Childish" for having over 100 flags flown over the capitol on the first day of session. Little did Kent know the flags were going to be given to the SEC members for their hard work and support for Republicans through the years."
(more at above listed hyperlink)
