TN TAX BATTLE: Tax supporters savor prime spots (photo of boss hogg & feeders)

The Tennessean ^ | 6/27/02 | EDITH WRIGHT

[GailA]

BILL STEBER / STAFF House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh makes a surprise visit outside the Capitol to shake hands with tax reform supporters, teasing a dancing Shannon Houska yesterday.

Pro-tax protesters partied the day away yesterday as they celebrated beating the anti-tax protesters out of the prime spots at War Memorial Plaza.

[GailA]

Memphis teachers were bussed in at 5 am in the morning, the State employees were there for the FREE HIRED BAND, and the FREE hot dogs, chips and pop. The actually boss hoggites were about 30 in number other wise.

There were a the height of the day 12 ANTI-TAX protestors...we got the most horn honks.

[tdadams]

You beat me to it Gail. I was about to post this myself with a chunky-mucous-barf alert.

[tdadams]

I'm just utterly amuzed how the Tennessean is straining logic to make us think the tide is turning. So now we're to believe all the horn honking down there is in support of an income tax? I don't think so.

[GailA]

I'll be there later today. My friend ED and I drove up yesterday. He has to go get the wing window of the car replaced. Some criminal broke it and stole a cloth bag containing candy and snacks out of the car..on and one $2.50 watch with a dead battery.

[tomahawk]

Boss Hogg is big, fat, and out of control, just like the TN Govt. Look at that man's wasteline! He can't control his eating, much less Govt. spending. What a disgrace.

[JDGreen123]

Yes! Uncanny resemblance between Naifeh & Boss Hogg both in appearance and tactics:

I take it that Matt Kisber plays the role of assistant ala Roscoe P. Coltrane.

[gunnedah]

A tax is a tax! YOU CAN PAY ME NOW OR YOU CAN PAY ME LATER!
EITHER WAY WE WILL TAKE YOUR MONEY AND THERE IS NOT A DAMN THING YOU CAN SAY OR DO ABOUT IT.