Are there only 37 Conservatives in congress?

`(2) RESTORATION OF FUND BALANCE- Out of money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, there is hereby appropriated to the Highway Trust Fund $8,017,000,000.’.

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Although Ron Paul votes most conservatively over any one,  I do not even agree with him 100%..  The voters of the 7th district should have voted for me in 2006… Oh well.  I still support Ron Paul and I still think Marsha Blackburn is NOT A CONSERVATIVE!

 8 BILLION $ $ $  

When you see headlines such as the post I did on the “honor killing” and the “fashion show” included in this post it really makes you wonder what is the appeal of multi-culturalism. The folks that are so against the conservatives, mostly your Mid-South Peace and Justice types, are the ones that would hang first in countries such as Iran. They would not be allowed to exist in the countries such as Iran, but they desire to be like them. How so do you say? By forcing this country into socialism is how. A socialist country is controlled by the goverment. Everything from religion to TV is controlled by the government. Free speech, freedom of religion and gun ownership are not allowed. This is not allowed because if the people own weapons and are allowed free speech then government control is almost impossible.

You would think that the progressives would realize that this is happening and would move away from the path they have chosen, but they are ignorant. The only thing they are setting themselves and the rest of us for is failure. If we continue to worship at the altar of mult-culturalism them our culture will be lost. We are the United States Of America, the greatest nation to exist on this planet. We have a culture that is envied around the world, but some of those that live here refuse to see it. They think we have to change to become like everyone else when all we need is to just be who we are! Keep it up fellows.

Austin

Iranian fashion: bland, unattractive, and government-approved! - Styledash

Just when you think Congress is playing it safe and only passing bills that express their appreciation for something or other.  But now, Marsha Blackburn has voted for More and Bigger Government.  “How can this be?” you say…  well she just voted for the Aviation Safety Enhancement Act of 2008  “Sounds ok to me.  What’s wrong with a little safety?” you ask…  well it creates a WHOLE NEW FEDERAL GOVERNEMENT … with director, staff and well… More …

So there  you have it.  Smaller Government - not under Marsha Blackburn.  NeoCon RINO’s RULE!

Visit Blue Collar Muse for information on possible Tennessee toll roads. I am not a big fan of them considering I pay a hell of a lot of taxes for roads as it is.

Austin

http://conservablogs.com/bluecollarmuse/2008/07/21/times-running-out-to-just-say-no-to-tennessee-toll-roads/

Jim Coley, all around asshole and my former opponent, may have to actually win his office in the 2010 election if Marsha Blackburn goes down. I said “goes down.” You dirty minded folks know I mean in the Republican Primary for the 7th Congressional district of Tennessee. Considering that it was the Pied Piper, like following of Blackburn and her campaigning for Coley that shot him by me in the 2006 election. Everyone knows it was not because his platform was any better because he copied mine. It was funny to see the few push cards I put out copied by Coley and re-issued as his campaign material.

What has Jim Coley done for the 97th District of Tennessee since being elected in 2006? Well, I would say nothing, but he did a fabulous job of raising taxes and also made sure his position in the public schools was safe. Where are the anti-illegal immigration promises that Coley had made? Where is the pro-gun legislation? I guess he forgot all about doing some good for Tennessee after he was elected. This is no different than any other elected official in this state so I cannot really single him out for that. While I am throwing out the questions, where is his website? This is the age of the Internet and there is no web presence for Jim Coley. Just type in www.jimcoley.com, his former web address when he ran against me and you will find NOTHING. Tre Hargett was a horrible legislator, but he was a wonderful communicator. Here also is a wonderful post by Mick Wright who loves to bash me by bragging on the spanking that Coley gave me. http://www.mickwright.net/2008/04/29/537 I FREAKIN LOVE IT!!! This made my weekend that much brighter and I wish I would have seen this a long time ago. I may have to read Mick’s blog more often. WILL I BE BACK IN 2010? You better hope so!

Austin

I see that Tom racks up another Endorsement.

Leatherwood well prepared for 7th District

Voters in the 7th Congressional District have two staunch conservatives to choose from, one with an unblemished record

Now thats Funny.

Blackburn’s suitability comes into question because of missteps in her campaign finance disclosures that have resulted in a $1,500 fine by the Federal Election Commission and could eventually turn out to be a larger distraction for her.

The primary ethical concern revealed by the investigation is that Blackburn’s daughter, Mary Morgan Ketchel, is receiving an income as a fundraiser for her mother’s campaign.

That creates the impression that special interest groups contributing to the campaign may enjoy extraordinary leverage over the candidate.

Blackburn says this is a non-issue being raised by an opponent with nothing else to offer. But its relevance is something voters should decide for themselves.

Leatherwood has an unblemished record through eight years in the state Senate and almost eight years in the Register’s office.

Congress has less than 9% approval rating. Marsha Blackburn is Part of the Problem.  The voter’s of the 7th district need to tell Marsha: “Marsha, You Are Fired!”

H/T - Blogger SharonCobb (from the left?) is not too happy with the current Congressman and her lobbying son-in-law.    She points to an article in the Tennessean.

From the Tennessean article: Rep. Marsha Blackburn’s son-in-law and companies he works for have been paid about $1 million to lobby the federal government since 2004, according to a review of federal lobbying records.

Among the companies who have paid Paul Ketchel III to represent them are several that are located in the Brentwood Republican’s district and whose business falls under the authority of the House committee on which Blackburn serves.

And:

His largest client, Dialogic Communications Corp. of Franklin, paid Ketchel $326,000 from 2004-07 to lobby the House and Senate and federal agencies to buy the company’s emergency communications systems and for other purposes.

Dialogic’s business and that of other current and former Ketchel clients fall under the oversight of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, on which Blackburn serves. The committee deals with telecommunication and health issues.

Well I see Jim is in the Memphis Commercial Appeal newspaper today.  Go Jim.

Tomasik, 45 and in his first political campaign, lambastes incumbent U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn as President Bush’s worker bee with as much intensity as Morris, a 55-year-old in his second try in the 7th District primary. But after that, they part ways pretty quickly.

Tomasik, an engineer at Keeler Ironworks on Presidents Island, describes himself as conservative, and has posted regularly on a political blog called “Blue Collar Republicans.” He advocates replacing the federal income-tax system with the consumption-tax structure proponents call the “Fair Tax,” an issue espoused by former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee in the Republican presidential primary (Tomasik donated $326 to Huckabee’s campaign, according to FundRace 2008).

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Top issue: Advocates replacing federal income tax with consumption tax proponents call the “Fair Tax.”

You Go!

The West Fayette Republican Club will meet Thursday July 24, 2008 at the Fair Oaks Grill in Oakland at 6: 30 PM.  The menu is a buffet-style dinner for $8.00, with the option to pay and have dinner or attend without dinner. Our speakers this month will be candidates for Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District, Tom Leatherwood and Scott Golden (representing Marsha Blackburn).

Directions: Take Hwy 194 N. from Hwy. 64.  Turn right at Fair Oaks Entrance.  Take the 1st right, Fair Oaks Dr. to the end where the Club House is located on the right.

www.westfayetterepublicanclub.com

Marsha Blackburn supports the NRA.  The NRA sold us out by supporting the Brady Bill.  Tom Leatherwood supports the GOA.  The GOA is against the Brady Bill.

Chris Cox from the NRA supports Marsha. He called it a “no brainer.”

Larry Pratt from Gun Owners of America supports Tom. He says there’s a “clear difference”

From Team Leatherwood: “Arlington, TN (July 17) – Gun Owners of America, one of the nation’s leading advocates for the Second Amendment, has endorsed Tom Leatherwood in the race for the 7^th District congressional nomination. 

The group cited Leatherwood’s lengthy record of support for gun owners’ rights, and praised his commitment to protecting the 2^nd Amendment rights of veterans. 

GOA Executive Director Larry Pratt said Leatherwood’s opponent, incumbent Marsha Blackburn, “supported a bill that allows the government to ban certain veterans from purchasing firearms without judicial oversight.  Leatherwood, on the other hand, will support the ‘Veterans Second Amendment Protection Act,’ a bill that protects veterans’ rights.”

h/t The Mike Slater Show

Many thanks to Pat McGarrity of the TFA for this information. I wonder how Marsha pissed off these folks.

Austin

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, July 14, 2008
Contact: Chris Wilson at 901/ 652-8487
Arlington, TN – The list of area elected officials endorsing Tom Leatherwood for Congress in the 7th Congressional District is now at 30, with supporters including Shelby County and Fayette County Commissioners, city and county mayors and aldermen, Board of Education members, and members of the state legislature and Memphis City Council. Leatherwood is challenging incumbent Marsha Blackburn in the August 7 Republican Primary.
“The incumbent hasn’t been there when students and taxpayers needed her help to cut red tape and deal with the Washington bureaucracy,” said David Pickler, Chairman of the Shelby County Board of Education.  “Representing the people of your district in their dealings with the federal government is important.  Tom Leatherwood understands this.”
Bartlett Mayor Keith McDonald added, “I think Tom is in tune with the needs of Bartlett and other towns in the 7th District. I know him and I trust him to do a good job in Washington.”
According to Germantown Mayor Sharon Goldsworthy, “Tom has demonstrated the willingness and ability to make government work more effectively and efficiently.  In these economic times we need those skills in Washington.”
 “I’m honored that so many of my colleagues have joined in my campaign and I’m excited that the list is growing daily,” said Leatherwood, the Shelby County Register of Deeds.  “It means something when people you work with regularly give their public endorsement.”
In addition to Pickler, McDonald, and Goldsworthy, Leatherwood earned endorsements from Henderson County Mayor Dennis Ray McDaniel, Former Shelby County Mayor Bill Morris,  and Arlington Mayor Russell Wiseman.

Also endorsing are Shelby County Commissioners Wyatt Bunker, George Flinn, and Mike Ritz as well as Fayette County Commissioners Joann Allen, Ed Allen, Ron Gant, and David Lillard, Sr.  Fayette County Trustee Barbara Parker and Fayette County Register of Deeds Eddie Pattat have endorsed Leatherwood as has State Representative and Shelby County Board of Education Member Ron Lollar.
Other officials endorsing Leatherwood are Anne Edmiston, a Shelby County Board of Education Member, Ernest Chism, also a member of the Shelby County Board of Education and a Germantown Alderman. The endorsements from Shelby County include William R. “Bill” Key, Criminal Court Clerk, Jimmy Moore, Circuit Court Clerk, Debbie Stamson, County Clerk, Steve Stamson, Juvenile Court Clerk, Chris Thomas, Probate Court Clerk, and Chris Turner, General Sessions Court Clerk.
Also endorsing Leatherwood are Arlington Vice Mayor Harry McKee and Arlington Aldermen Glen Bascom, Hugh Lamar, Gerald McGee, and Brian Thompson.
In his current position as Register of Deeds for Shelby County, Leatherwood has returned money to the Shelby County budget every year, while serving as a leader in making information available at no cost to the public.  He began his career in elective politics in 1992 when he defeated incumbent State Senator Leonard Dunavant, an advocate for a state income tax, in the Republican primary.  Leatherwood went on to win in November and played a leading role in opposing a state income tax. 

Congress’s approval poll is in the Single digits.  It is generally agreed that they have failed us.  But reading the newspapers and web sites, you would think everyone’s congressman is Great.  How can this be?  Here in the Memphis area we have 3 districts (more or less), 7, 8, and 9.  Tanner isn’t opposed in his party… Where is the outrage?… Marsha in the 7th is opposed but Everyone (according to the web and papers) say she is doing a great job.  Where is the outrage?  Even Cohen in the 9th has opposition, but here too people love him.

Congress has bailed out for special intrest.  It is time to kick the whole bunch out!

I have news for you people, it IS your congressman that is the problem.  Fix it.

Shelby County Register of Deeds, Tom Leatherwood hopes to beat Congressional Representative Marsha Blackburn in the Republican primary on August 7.  He tells me that he would be up for debating the winner of the Democratic primary if he is successful and the rival is so inclined   He approached me with this news after a candidate forum in Oakland Monday evening at the Lutheran Church.  At the moment, the exact name of the forum escapes me. 

(Where were you, Mickey?) 

Both Marsha Blackburn and my Democratic primary challenger Randy Morris have not seen the need in debating during the primaries.   I can understand Blackburn’s elitist strategy but I do not understand why Morris would not jump at the chance to debate.  There just does not seem to be a whole lot of fight in the nice gentleman from Waynesboro, Tennessee.  That is certainly regrettable.

I must say that I would love to see Leatherwood win the primary because, as he said, a debate would be good for the people in our district regardless of the safe margin one or the other candidate may enjoy.   

It looks to me like I may have a slightly better chance at winning my primary than Leatherwood has at winning his primary.     We will just have to wait and see.

Jim Tomasik for Congress

I have seen more emails from my U.S. TN 7th district Congressman Marsha Blackburn since Tom Leatherwood is running against her, than the total previous 5 years she has been in office.

Is she becoming intimidated?

Will she debate Mr. Leatherwood?  WHY NOT?

On Monday President Bush says “Drill, drill, drill” as he opens up offshore drilling, and two days later….

NEW YORK (AP) — Wall Street turned higher Wednesday as another drop in oil prices helped offset concerns about a jump in inflation last month. The Dow Jones industrial average rose more than 100 points.

Stocks drew support from oil prices that pulled back for a second straight day on concerns that a slowing economy will damp demand. Light, sweet crude fell $4.84 to $133.90 on the New York Mercantile Exchange, compounding a drop of $6.44 on Tuesday.

So now if those jack-asses in Congress will just get with the program.

Some people just believe they have more rights than others….

The Sons of Confederate Veterans say they’ll raise the Confederate flag across South Carolina in response to the NAACP’s new push to remove the banner from the Statehouse grounds. Confederate Veterans spokesman Don Gordon says each time the civil rights organization complains, the Sons of Confederate Veterans will put up a new flag. Gordon says his group is negotiating with a landowner to put a large flag atop a pole along a Midlands interstate highway. He would not give details. He says the group hopes to add other large flagpoles to interstates across the state so drivers will “know they’re in the South.” The NAACP announced at its convention this week a renewed boycott and other efforts to bring down the Confederate flag that was moved to a capitol monument after a deal brought it down from the building’s dome in 2000. - WCBD 2

Let there be no misunderstanding, I am an American, period. However, I was also born in the South and like it or not, the Confederacy did exist and continues to exist in the hearts of many Southerners. However, the victor gets to write the history books and that little controversy of 150 years ago has been painted as a noble struggle against slavery, which it was not.

My ancestors did not fight to keep slavery alive. One of them, A.C. McLeary wrote a little book about his experiences which is worth at read for those who wish to insist that they did. They fought to defend their State (Tennessee in the case of mine) against invaders who wished to force upon them a Union they no longer desired. These States had joined in the Constitutional Union voluntarily and as such felt they had the right to leave it voluntarily. What they soon learned was that President Abraham Lincoln had other ideas. So at the expense of 620,000 American lives, so-called freedom was forced upon the South. Those are more than in every other war in American history combined.

Although smaller and poorly equipped, the Confederate forces came very close to winning their freedom, but the Emancipation Proclamation issued by President Lincoln in 1863 turned the conflict from one about States Rights, to one about a moral cause, the elimination of Slavery.

Yes, slavery was an evil practice, but racial inequality did not end with the Civil War in the North or the South. To answer the practice of slavery by enslaving an entire geographic area was not the solution. So for some the Confederate flag represents slavery of a by-gone era, but for others, like me, it represents the slavery imposed upon the South which continues into the modern era.

“I gave his old pants and the Eskimo cloak to Ben, our negro man, who stayed at home and helped my mother take care of the children after father died. He was the father of Jim and Calvin McLeary and an uncle of the well-known Henry McLeary, of Humboldt. My mother gave Ben a horse when the war was over. He lived several years after the war, and we all have a good feeling now for any of Ben’s relations.”

So if the Confederate Battle Flag offends you, then that is your problem. But for me it is a symbol of Liberty lost. It marked the beginning of what James Madison, the architect of the United States Constitution warned of.

“Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.”

There may come a time in our future when the Battle Flag may have to wave once again, and if so, I will gladly join ranks under it with the same pride and devotion as my forefathers.

“We are all proud of the crosses of honor given us by our dear Daughters. I wear mine when traveling among strangers; and while in Memphis some time back, waiting for my train to start for Arkansas, a fine-looking old ex-Federal soldier, whose home was in Baltimore, Md., took hold of my cross and said: ‘My friend, did you not know that these railroads won’t allow a fellow to ride on their train with one of those things on?’ I told him that I did not, but I was under General Forrest during the war, and he taught us to go where and when we pleased.”

Not much has changed since my great-uncles day.