Pay attention, folks. Or prepare for some jaded journalist to explain
that people get the government they deserve. There is a lot of substance
in today's report from The
CA, including issues that are very much in play right now.
Our Nashville bureau is all over the crucial waning days of this session of the Tennessee General Assembly, as a battle over the state budget breaks out while lawmakers focus time and energy on laws that would make driver's license tests English-only and try to require election commissions get proof of citizenship from people registering to vote. Our own Wendi Thomas lashes lawmakers for their emphasis. The legislature did pass a law banning the sale of sham "international driver's licenses' that awaits Gov. Bredesen's signature.
From Washington, U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen wants more women's restrooms in federal buildings, which we guess might make some of the women who make up 60-plus percent of the voters in the 9th Congressional District happy. Whether those women will care if former Memphis mayor Willie Herenton debates Cohen is another issue, but Herenton pulled out of a News Channel 3 debate because he claims The CA's Otis Sanford and Channel 3's Norm Brewer would be biased against him.
Although we're going to hear much more about Republican gubernatorial candidates Bill Haslam, Zach Wamp and Ron Ramsey the next three months, Jackson businessman Mike McWherter is trying to get his share of attention running unopposed in the Democratic primary. At the Rotary Club of East Memphis yesterday, he transmitted a message that essentially went like this -- Democratic governors know how to create jobs and manage budgets but Republicans nowadays are fiscally irresponsible. We're guessing Haslam, the mayor of Knoxville who loves touting his own budget-balancing acumen, might have something to say about it when he comes into town today.
Our Nashville bureau is all over the crucial waning days of this session of the Tennessee General Assembly, as a battle over the state budget breaks out while lawmakers focus time and energy on laws that would make driver's license tests English-only and try to require election commissions get proof of citizenship from people registering to vote. Our own Wendi Thomas lashes lawmakers for their emphasis. The legislature did pass a law banning the sale of sham "international driver's licenses' that awaits Gov. Bredesen's signature.
From Washington, U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen wants more women's restrooms in federal buildings, which we guess might make some of the women who make up 60-plus percent of the voters in the 9th Congressional District happy. Whether those women will care if former Memphis mayor Willie Herenton debates Cohen is another issue, but Herenton pulled out of a News Channel 3 debate because he claims The CA's Otis Sanford and Channel 3's Norm Brewer would be biased against him.
Although we're going to hear much more about Republican gubernatorial candidates Bill Haslam, Zach Wamp and Ron Ramsey the next three months, Jackson businessman Mike McWherter is trying to get his share of attention running unopposed in the Democratic primary. At the Rotary Club of East Memphis yesterday, he transmitted a message that essentially went like this -- Democratic governors know how to create jobs and manage budgets but Republicans nowadays are fiscally irresponsible. We're guessing Haslam, the mayor of Knoxville who loves touting his own budget-balancing acumen, might have something to say about it when he comes into town today.
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