Thursday, May 14, 2009
By the Way / Woods Morning Roundup: Ford Defends His Defense of Torture and Other News
Posted by Jeff Woods on Thu, May 14, 2009 at 7:15 AM
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Harold Ford Jr. goes hardball on Chris Matthews over torture. ... Republicans threaten to kill the state Election Commission. Oh no, not that! ... Al Gore brings climate campaign to Nashville. ... Even Pennsylvania won't take TVA's coal ash. ... Hidden fees cost Tennessee cities $400,000. ... Tennessee will devote $62.5 million in federal stimulus money to a new Tennessee Solar Institute in Knoxville. ... New judicial selection plan advances. ... Opponents stall the charter schools bill in the House Education Committee. Rep. Tommie Brown:
"I got a stack of letters from a group of children from Nashville hand-delivered to me. That's pimping little babies. They're telling me how great it is to be in a charter school and why we ought to do it for other kids."Tennessee voids the marriage of transgender couple. ... TennCare denies a dying boy a special mattress ... Tobacco settlement money directed to conserve farmland. ... The bill is moving to keep the unemployment trust fund solvent. ... Memphis restaurateurs fear alcohol and guns is a lethal mix: "I guess we have to wait for someone to shoot someone before legislators change their minds." Wamp sniffs around in Gibbons' backyard: "I'm a heat-seeking missile." He refers to the GOP primary field as "four good men."
"We're together every week. I compare us to a bunch of NASCAR racers. They even go in and pray together before they go out there and run each other up against the wall and hope the other guy crashes."
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