How Do you vote?

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Republican.  Because ethics and integrity matter.
I refuse to vote for Tennessee's Corruptocrats.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Republican.  Because ethics and integrity matter.

Given the state of the federal GOP, I found this particularly hilarious.

But given the state of the Tennessee Democratic Party, it's the only logical choice.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

But given the state of the Tennessee Democratic Party, it's the only logical choice.

Bob "I'm a flip-flopping, tax hiking, ethically challenged pathological prevaricator" Corker is a paragon of virtue? And I don't think Governor Bredesen is a crook.

ahem.... State Trooper scandal

So which Democratic State legislator will be indicted this week?  It seems like its been a once a week activity for awhile now...

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

But given the state of the Tennessee Democratic Party, it's the only logical choice.

Bob "I'm a flip-flopping, tax hiking, ethically challenged pathological prevaricator" Corker is a paragon of virtue? And I don't think Governor Bredesen is a crook.

I don't support Corker, and he is a flip fliopper on abortion and did raise taxes (which I don't care much about), but I wouldn't say he's any less ethical than most anybody in DC. I'm not aware of any real lies that he's told either.

Thank you Tom. 

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

But given the state of the Tennessee Democratic Party, it's the only logical choice.

Bob "I'm a flip-flopping, tax hiking, ethically challenged pathological prevaricator" Corker is a paragon of virtue? And I don't think Governor Bredesen is a crook.

ahem.... State Trooper scandal

So which Democratic State legislator will be indicted this week?  It seems like its been a once a week activity for awhile now...

Ah, there's a state party competing with the NM Democrats for "most corrupt" then.

The NM Reps are definitely more honest than the NM Dems...they're also borderline insane, but such are my political choices.

Oh come now.  Our Democrats are WAAY more corrupt than yours.  Our Democrats have perfected corruption to a fine art form.

This is what happened in just one district:

Feb 2005: Senator Roscoe Dixon (D) abandons his constituients to get a $100,000+ job with county government, forcing a speical election.

April 2005: State Rep. Kathryn Bowers (D), chair of the local Dem party, abandons her constituients to run for Dixon's seat (creating two special elections at $150-300,000 each)

May 2005: Bowers, an accomplished poverty-pimp, defeats Mary Ann McNeil (R), a black Republican who is one of the most honored educators in the state.

A few days later, Bowers - along with Dixon and several other Democratic legislators - are indicted in the Tennessee Waltz scandal.

August 2006: Poverty-pimp Bowers, under indictment, wins the Democratic primary for the full term - soundly defeating Steve Webster(D), an accomplished realtor with GOP ties.

Just days later, Bowers resigns her seat and her nomination for "health reasons".  Her health is fine, but that's one of the only legal excuses that allow the Dem Party to replace her on the ballot.

All told, Democrats have cost our state MILLIONS of dollars in special election costs because they can't keep themselves out of jail - or because they're abandoning lower offices to seek the empty seats of their indicted predecessors.  One Shelby County Democrat legislator, Henri Brooks(D), ran for both the County Commission and the State House at the same time - just in case she lost one she would still be able to be a poverty-pimp in the other.  Democratic Voters didn't seem to mind, as she defeated Novella Smith Arnold (R), an Episcopal minister and civil-rights activist who was even endorsed by the Stonewall Democrats.

I don't see how Democrats in this county or state sleep at night.

[Bleeding heart conservative, HTMLdon]

Oh come now.  Our Democrats are WAAY more corrupt than yours.  Our Democrats have perfected corruption to a fine art form.

This is what happened in just one district:

Feb 2005: Senator Roscoe Dixon (D) abandons his constituients to get a $100,000+ job with county government, forcing a speical election.

April 2005: State Rep. Kathryn Bowers (D), chair of the local Dem party, abandons her constituients to run for Dixon's seat (creating two special elections at $150-300,000 each)

May 2005: Bowers, an accomplished poverty-pimp, defeats Mary Ann McNeil (R), a black Republican who is one of the most honored educators in the state.

All told, Democrats have cost our state MILLIONS of dollars in special election costs because they can't keep themselves out of jail - or because they're abandoning lower offices to seek the empty seats of their indicted predecessors.  One Shelby County Democrat legislator, Henri Brooks(D), ran for both the County Commission and the State House at the same time - just in case she lost one she would still be able to be a poverty-pimp in the other.  Democratic Voters didn't seem to mind, as she defeated Novella Smith Arnold (R), an Episcopal minister and civil-rights activist who was even endorsed by the Stonewall Democrats.

I don't see how any of those can be classfied as corruption, or were they just part of the timeline?

I neglected to mention that the legislators, 4 Democrats and 1 RINO, were indicted for taking bribes.  Another Democratic legislator was indicted last week in a seperate corruption incident.