Senate Ousts Ford (TN)

The (Memphis) Commercial Appeal ^ | 20 April 2006 | by RIchard Locker

[Coldwater Creek]

This job is not quite as lucrative as you think.

They are not in session 365 days a year.

There is the cost of maintaining an apt. in Nashville, gas expense's for going back and forth, etc.


Also, as another poster pointed out, you must learn to spell y"all if you are going live in the South.

Living in Ill. I imagine that you are already experience in the art of the dead voting. ( just kidding)

[Condor51]

I know they aren't in session each day, but their 'allowances' aren't only for the days in session.

Now, I don't necessarily think $83K is an awful lot for a state Rep (its all relative to cost of living), it's just how Tenn, IMO, scams the people with the lowly $16,500 per year salary. Heck be up front about and say we deserve $80,000 a year as we work hard, and be done with it.

You got me on the ya'll.

As to our dead voters here in IL - the DOJ is starting to look into that and are finally arresting said dead voters and putting them on trial and in prison. Naturally I mean the corrupt politicians. Our ex-gov, 'Lyin' George Ryan (RINO) was just convicted on 22 counts and will be going away for a loooooooooong time. Given his age it will be a life sentence :-)
(I've always hated his rotten, corrupt, guts)

And 'Da Mare' of Chicago, Richie Daley is shaking in his boots. There's more Feds roaming City Hall now than patronage workers. He'll be going down in the near future - someone will sing to avoid a long stretch in the pen.

[Onelifetogive]

I just thank and praise God that He chose me to do this.

I never realized that God chose people to commit voter fraud.....

[RavenATB]

The nice thing about the financial package is that "allowances" are typically not taxed as income. So, if that applies in this case, the vast majority of the money in her compensation package would be tax free.

[dljordan]

"Contraction of you all. Y'all."

How about you'un's?

[Coldwater Creek]

I think that is what people in Missouri say!

[jmaroneps37]

For those who insist upon seeing the dark center of the silver lined cloud: PLEASE stop saying we are NOT making progress in the war on voter fraud, just stop it please!

[NCC-1701]

She looks like she came out of a casket at one of the Ford family funeral homes. Some of those that voted for her wheeled through those doors themselves.

[NCC-1701]

One of the out-going (man, I love saying that) county commisioners, Walter Bailey, has intimated that the commision should place a black in that now vacated seat. What a crock. What ever happened to the "content of their character" bit? BTW, Bailey, along with fellow commisioners Cleo Kirk and Julian Bolton lost their bid for further service on the Shelby County commission. The Tennessee Supreme Court upheld the will of the people concerning term limits. Those three, along with others have been term limited out of their seats. Now if the City of Memphis can get rid of its mayor Willie Herenton by way of a recall, that would be like hitting the trifecta at Churchill downs on Derby Day.

[Coldwater Creek]

I hear Bailey say that basically on a black Democrat could represent the 29th district. Millington where the white Republican is in that district. Does that mean that white Republican's are not to be represented?

We got out, and even tho we are not represented by a Republican race never enters the picture.

[NCC-1701]

"...race never enters the picture...."

With Bailey, that's the FIRST and ONLY thing that is to be considered. Tough luck to all the white Republicans. The thing that galls Ophelia and the Fords is that she (they) lost out to a white, male, Republican. That is not permitted in the Ford's universe.

[Shimmer128]

I don't know where they say that, but the plural of y'all is y'all.
:D

[Coldwater Creek]

I have always said y'all's.