Posted on 03/20/2008 4:40:03 PM PDT by SmithL
NASHVILLE - Former Lt. Gov. John Wilder announced minutes ago that he will not seek re-election to the state Senate seat he has held for 44 years.
"I wanted to do what God wanted me to do, and I didn't know exactly what that was," Wilder said in a rambling speech on the Senate floor shortly before noon today.
After long deliberations, he said, "I decided not to run for re-election" for the Somerville seat. Wilder compared service in the Senate to being a soldier.
He closed his speech with this cryptic remark: "If I don't change my mind, that's what I'm going to do" - referring to retiring from the Senate.
Democrat Wilder, 86, was unseated as lieutenant governor in January 2007 by Republican Lt. Gov. Rom Ramsey. At 36 years, he'd been the longest-serving presiding officer of a legislative body in the United States until that point.
Unh-huh, sure.
First Herenton and then Wilder... I think the Feds have another set of indictments coming.
Wait John Wait! Take King Naifeh with you. PLEASE!!!!!
Thank goodness. It’s about time.
Tennessee ping.
Oh to be able to say...
Bye Bye Jimmy Naifeh
:(
His State Senate seat is expected to go Republican, and we’ll need that seat to maintain control of the body (right now, we really don’t have it — 16R/16D with a backstabbing RINO traitor who switched to Independent who will vote with the rodents if we don’t dump him in November).
Amen to that. I want Boss Hogg Naifeh gone. It’s disgusting that for over a dozen years now, Republicans have gotten an overall majority or plurality of the vote for the State House, but the rodents maintain control by screwing us on redistricting (their guys barely winning in many seats and rotten borough districts, while ours rack up landslide wins in fewer seats). As I always point out, Nashville votes about 40% for GOP legislative candidates, and since 1992, we hold 10% of the seats, obscenely out-of-whack.
My area is doing our bit both our local state reps and our state senator are all conservative Republicans...
Pro-veterans, pro-guns, pro-family, pro-immigration (illegal aliens need not apply)...etc...
all 3 should be re-elected this year easily...
To be honest between the two I’d much rather see Naifeh go out of office first. Wilder wouldn’t be far behind anyhow.
Wish I could claim the same. I have two shameful embarrassment liberal buffoons. State Sen. Thelma “The Mad Hatter” Harper (who doesn’t feel she needs to talk to her White constituents outside of downtown) and State Rep. Janis Sodomy, er, Sontany, who’s been sodomizing her constituents since she landed on the Metro Council well over a dozen years ago. I tried to launch a recall effort of her while she was on the Council and I was threatened by another if I tried that, they’d circle the wagons around her a$$ (one lady who was becoming a publicly vocal opponent of hers, who had moved down from NY state as my parents had to try to break into the music recording industry, and for whom I likely would’ve supported to replace her, had to leave town with her husband and kids, fearing for their safety. When I was on the phone with her one evening, some people did a slow drive-by her house with her kids playing outside. It just wasn’t worth it).
The rodent thugs really look after their own here. Once we get the Republicans a majority, we can start drastically increasing GOP representation all over the state. There’s no reason why we can’t have 2/3rds of the legislature.
I know Thelma ...
Dont know if I’ve met the other one...
Usually, I try to avoid mentioning her name because she makes me ill...
Poor baby
:(
It’s no wonder I pay more attention to national politics. Can’t do zilch with these embarrassments, so there’s little point in staying engaged on the legislative level here. Not really an excuse, just an unfortunate reality. :-\
Lamar is running again this year...
Wish Ed Bryant would run against him...
Ed was one of the House managers who proscecuted the Bill Clinton impeachment
Wish we could get rid of RINO Robin Smith...
There just isn’t the critical mass to oust Lamar! in either the primary or general. I’m not going to vote for him this year, that is for sure. He doesn’t need it, anyway. This will probably be his last term, anyhow (he’ll be almost 75 when it concludes).
Who is Robin Smith ?
LOL
Robin Smith has been the State Chairman since August...
I should've known that (yet somehow, I think I knew you were going to tell me that). I can't recall the last party chair that left much of an impact, things have been so status quo for so long in TN, at least since after 1994. They're usually just nobody figureheads with little power. :-\
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