Yep a reverse Sundquist LOL. He's doing to them exactly what Sundquist did to the GOP for 8 solid years :>} I hate to say it but if a gun was pointed at my head to either vote for Phil or Taxquist I'd vote for Phil. But I did not vote for him and most likely won't. Still he is better than Taxquist.
BTW while you were in high school during Alexanders term I working for the 1982 Worlds fair LOL. You would not believe the dirty deals that went on. Every thing from gross Eminent Domain violations to persons being tossed out of apartments or asked to pay up to several hundred dollar a night in rent. People before the fair were going nuts taking out second mortgages to add apartments to their homes. Parts of I-75 and I-40 had huge Air Stream trailer parks you could see and none not a one had more than a dozen customers on any day of the fair. By the end of the first week of the fair it was obvious to all somebody made a big, big, mistake.
One guy I worked with in maintenance there was a reserve cop and the Electrician for the fair. He told me Jake and CH were going down very soon. Indeed he was right.
Actually, I'll say that the GOP succeeded in spite of Scummy. We increased our percent of the vote in every election at the legislative level. Despite Scummy's attempts to help the 'Rats reduce our numbers to 1/3rd of the legislature (despite getting over 50% (!) of the vote), we were able to stop him. Unfortunately, we weren't able to stop the 'Rat gerrymander of the Congressional districts, or Pharoah Phil's purchase of the Governorship.
"BTW while you were in high school during Alexanders term I working for the 1982 Worlds fair LOL. You would not believe the dirty deals that went on."
Actually, I was in elementary and middle school during his term. I went to the Worlds Fair when I was 8. I don't doubt what shenanigans went on during it. Nonetheless, I still enjoyed the Fair in blissful ignorance. I don't, however, know how much was Alexander's fault in this instance. The Fair, IIRC, was already secured by the time Blanton finished his term with the blessing of Jimmuh Carter. I believe it was mostly a 'Rat affair that also involved the Butchers and Randy Tyree, one of the few 'Rats to be elected Mayor of Knoxville (of course, a Butcher and Tyree would both be Lamar's! respective opponents in '78 and '82).
"One guy I worked with in maintenance there was a reserve cop and the Electrician for the fair. He told me Jake and CH were going down very soon. Indeed he was right."
That was always something that really bothered me, that Lamar! could've used the mass-scale corruption in the TN 'Rat party to build up ours, and he did precisely nothing (which, you might recall, the party was either at parity or in the majority (the first Southern state to go majority GOP in the latter half of the 20th Century) following the Baker v. Carr decision until Watergate - and to this date, our high water mark in the legislature (House, at least) was during the 1969-70 session when we got Bill Jenkins the Speakership).