State Rep. Mike Turner​In this week's Scene, I write about a secret meeting that may play an important part in the NAACP-supported lawsuit against the city's new student assignment plan. The meeting gathered some of the city's most prominent black leaders with Chamber of Commerce president Ralph Schulz and state House Democratic caucus chair Mike Turner, a member of the task force that recommended the rezoning plan to the school board.
At the meeting, Turner described his reasons for supporti
Karen JohnsonIn the student rezoning case in federal court, Metro's lawyers pop out of their seats with objections at the mere mention of the possibility the Chamber of Commerce might have tried to influence the school board. It's as if they actually think the judge will believe that the Chamber didn't push for the new student assignment plan. Please.
The Chamber gave great wads of campaign cash to supporters of the rezoning plan. It even endorsed and funded an obscure candidate named Co
Unite TN will hold its next organizational meeting in this magic bus.Without bothering to notify the state Democratic Party, a group of lefties is organizing to influence the 2010 elections. According to an email to the group from its leader, Liberadio(!) co-host Mary Mancini, Unite TN is "off to a fantastic start" and hopes to do pretty much what the party is supposed to do--organize, develop messages and get out the vote.
A few minutes ago, we asked party chairman Chip Forrester for hi
The moonbeams have landed!At last report, Nashville's moonbeams were organizing to take control of state politics and reign supreme over Tennessee in a new age of enlightenment. Although he'd not heard a word about these activities until we told him, Democratic Party chairman Chip Forrester immediately proclaimed he was working with the lefties in their quest, united together for a better tomorrow.
Now, more intelligence has arrived from Pith's stable of smug anonymous insiders suggestin
