Thu
Oct 27 2011
01:30 pm
By: R. Neal
Sounds like the Shelby Co. Democratic Party over in Memphis is giving up. This can mean only one thing: we will all be assimilated by the Haslam borg.
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Well, heck, everyone wants to
Well, heck, everyone wants to be part of the 1% like Haslam. If you get on his/their good side maybe you'll get rich.
Well, then...
I hope they have a daddy who's a good businessman, like Haslam does.
Thank you
For the shoutout, sir. I wrote about this almost a year ago and have been encouraging candidates privately. They should have had someone either announce one way or the other so that we could have had a candidate.
Our county party chair had to
Our county party chair had to step up and run in a special election for State Senate. That's commitment!
Special elections
My goodness, what's happening in Shelby County? This is scary stuff.