Waking up to some surprising news.

After building Post Politics into a one-man, one-stop shopping supermarket of Tennessee politics, Kleinheider has been let go by SouthComm. It's Volunteer Voters deju vu all over again.

I see they've assigned three people to take his place. Might be enough, we'll see. As the only full-time, paid media blogger in the state that I know of he was quite prolific at Post Politics, as he was at Volunteer Voters before that. We had to reorganize the blog-o-rama news feeds several times to prevent signal overload. In addition to being on every press secretary's distribution list and sniffing out every link of interest to Tennessee political junkies, he wrote some occasional killer commentary, too, whether you agreed with him or not. He was also starting to write some great columns for City Paper, but I guess those are gone, too.

Anyway, we wish ACK the best of luck wherever he lands. And a salute to the best headline writer in the game, who can chase down a rumor better than anybody.

SEE ALSO:

• Kleinheider's Facebook page
• Kleinheider's Linkedin page (in case you're hiring)