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  • Hilleary slings liberal label at Corker [TN Senate race]

    11/24/2005 11:53:32 PM PST · by SmithL · 14 replies · 635+ views
    AP ^ | 11/25/5
    NASHVILLE - Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Van Hilleary is criticizing a GOP rival for helping secure corporate underwriters for a 2004 legislative retreat affiliated with the Legislature's Black Caucus. The actions of former Chattanooga Mayor Bob Corker came up earlier this week during Hilleary's appearance on a conservative talk radio show in Nashville. Both Corker and Hilleary are vying to succeed Bill Frist. "Bob Corker's raising money for the ultra-liberal Black Caucus in Tennessee," said the show's host, Steve Gill, addressing issues first raised in a Hilleary campaign news release. "Is he running in the right primary?" "That's a good...
  • [Tennessee] House leader orders audit of event tied to Caucus

    10/16/2005 9:55:02 AM PDT · by SmithL · 4 replies · 459+ views
    AP ^ | 10/16/5
    NASHVILLE - House Speaker Pro Tem Lois DeBerry, who has said questions surrounding an annual conference focusing on issues of importance to blacks is "killing me," has ordered an audit of the event's finances. Barbara Nance, director of the General Assembly's Office of Minority Affairs, said Friday that she did not know when results of the audit would be available. Records have been turned over to Nashville accountant Harry Hoskins, who will perform the audit. "He is going to keep them until he finishes the report," Nance said. Republicans have raised questions about the finances of the Black Caucus, and...
  • Black caucus has no watchdog

    10/04/2005 9:34:11 PM PDT · by SmithL · 276+ views
    Nashville Tennessean | 10/4/5 | BONNA de la CRUZ
    Tennessee's Black Caucus gets a bunch of money, and is accountable to no one.