Tenn. lawmaker pleads guilty to bribery (last of five nabbed in 'Tennessee Waltz' corruption probe)

From what I can tell, bits and pieces of Favors district is split between the GOP seat and the Crutchfield seat. Favors’ predecessor was a White Dem, and it isn’t overwhelmingly Dem. The Black district I was referring to is the heavily Black one represented by Tommie Brown (a woman).

I don’t know Killian’s affiliation, but it being Marion County, I’d presume it was Dem. South Pittsburg is a small town and it’s more likely the seat would go to someone from urban Hamilton County.

these’s another reason why these rodents are falling on their swords for penny ante charges. Supposedly, they’d prefer a short stint in prison to revealing the nexus of corruption and “fundraising” that cuts to the very heart of how the rodents do their business. Those longer trials that Crutchfield and Bowers are avoiding are quite telling. I’d just like to know who is really pulling the strings in this state. The fact that we’re coming up on half the members of the rodent caucus in the Senate of the past few years getting indicted or sent to prison ought to be the biggest news story in the state. It’s not, and we all know why.

Umm, is it their coercion through churches and unions? How about the Sundquist connection that started the investigation that never seems to penetrate his RINO skin? The FBI definitely has a bee in its bonnet on this one, which means much more to come. The spirit of Buford Pusser apparently still walks this land and that's a damn good thing.

No telling where all their money connections come from. Businesses, churches, unions, maybe space aliens. Of course, their punishment administered from our late and much lamented lawdawg would be the equivalent of a wet noodle wrap on their wrists rather than a 2x4 upside their heads. Oh, if only he hadn’d died, had he become Governor, he’d have exposed their crooked network nearly 30 years ago. Imagine having had back to back Republican Governors of Buford Pusser and Elvis Presley ! That sure as hell beats Blanton and Lamar!, ugh.

mash here All D's but 1, all black but 2..lots of cries of racisim as a result. BTW 1 got away with it...Rep Lois Deberry, House Pro-Tem, she only took a measley few hundred...a birthday gift....what is so ironic is that Deberry is the wife of the chairman of the TN Parole Board, Charles Traughber..John Ford is the UNCLE of former US Rep Harold Ford, JUNIOR.

deberry On a party-line vote, the Democrats on the House Ethics Committee decided not to investigate Lois DeBerry for accepting $200 in gambling money from E-Cycle Tennessee Waltz

12 arrests; 11 convictions, guilty pleas, expected to plead guilty; 1 awaiting trial

Kathryn Bowers, former state senator, scheduled to plead guilty Monday

Darrell Catron, former juvenile court aide, pleaded guilty, awaits sentencing

William Cotton, former Hamilton Co commissioner, convicted, serving three years

Ward Crutchfield, state senator, pleaded guilty Thursday, awaits sentencing

Roscoe Dixon, former state senator, convicted, serving five years

John Ford, former state senator, convicted, awaits sentencing

Michael Hooks Jr., former Memphis city school board member, awaits December trial

Michael Hooks Sr., former county commissioner, pleaded guilty, begins 26 month prison term Friday

Charles Love, former Hamilton County school board member, pleaded guilty, awaits sentencing

Barry Myers, consultant, pleaded guilty, awaits sentencing

Chris Newton, former state representative from Cleveland, pleaded guilty, served one year The LONE Republican

Calvin Williams, former county commission aide, convicted, sentenced to 33 months

We have a couple from Alabama who are just now in Federal prison. Ex-Gov Seigleman and noted grifter Richard Scrushy, who make the Tennessee folks look like penny ante pikers. Scrushy took over two billion out of Healthsouth hospital and the ex-Gov has been a felon for over thirty years. They are now wearing smart looking orange fashions and griping about bad food and getting only one hour a day for exercising. Sadly, they both should have been hung many years ago.

Memphis has more than it’s share of corruption...dems have been in control for decades. Not that some republicans don’t get greedy and corrupt, but by far it is the dems who do the most. Another Ford, Edmund is now under federal indictment in the MLG & W scandal...the family just keeps on giving...so far JUNIOR hasn’t been caught with his fingers in the cookie jar unless you count using campaign funds to buy extremely expensive suits.

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