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Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Bob Tuke called on Senate Majority Leader Ron Ramsey and other Republicans in the Tennessee General Assembly to take a stand against political contributions by John Gregory and other individuals with ties to King Pharmaceuticals Inc. Tuke made the call in advance of a mee [...]

Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Bob Tuke released this statement following the U.S. Justice Department's announcement that Bristol-based King Pharmaceuticals Inc. has agreed to pay $124 million to resolve claims that it underpaid rebates to state Medicaid programs and overcharged various federal and state entities for it [...]

Republican State Senator Jim Bryson appeared on Knoxville talk radio station WNOX-FM this past weekend to bash the Bredesen Administration and call for additional TennCare reform. Political observers will recall that Bryson, during the closing days of the 2005 legislative session, submitted a bill that would have sent tens of millions of dol [...]

Debate over ethics reform appears to have stalled in the General Assembly with Senate Majority Leader Ron Ramsey and other Republicans refusing to consider a $20,000 limit for individual donors in an election cycle and instead attacking Democrats over small-dollar cash contributions at campaign chili suppers and bar-b-ques. The most heated d [...]

Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Bob Tuke released the following statement following reports that House Republican Leader Tre Hargett has backed out of his recently announced lobbying job with drugmaker Pfizer: “Representative Hargett did the honorable thing by backing down from his position with Pfizer. But there still [...]

The news keeps getting worse for Republicans still reeling from the decision by State House Minority Leader Tre Hargett to resign his seat to take a job as chief lobbyist in Alabama and Tennessee for drug manufacturer Pfizer. As it turns out, Hargett used his public office to go to bat for [...]

Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Bob Tuke today issued the following statement after House Republican Leader Tre Hargett announced he is resigning from the General Assembly to work as a lobbyist for drug manufacturer Pfizer: "If there was ever any question that the Tennessee Republican Party is in the bac [...]

Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Bob Tuke on August 18 called on the State Republican Party, and individual candidates and political action committees, to turn down any contributions that might be transferred from the campaign account and PAC of newly hired Pfizer lobbyist Tre Hargett. Hargett’s individu [...]