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From the Tennessean: NASHVILLE -- A canvassing group hired by the Republican National Committee is responsible for 12 potentially phony voter-registration forms found in Davidson and Williamson Counties, election officials said Friday. Liberty Consultants also worked in Rutherford County, where the elections administrator said he [...]

From The Associated Press: The Republican National Committee confirmed Wednesday that it hired a voter registration group that was banished from Tennessee Wal-Mart stores for failing to meet the retailer's standards of nonpartisanship. Wal-Mart Stores Inc. told Liberty Consultants a group paid by [...]

From The Associated Press: A voter registration group with Republican ties has been banished from Wal-Mart stores in Tennessee for failing to meet the retailer's standards of nonpartisanship and may soon be shut out of stores in California and Nevada, the retailer's spokesman said Tuesday. Liberty Consultants wanted [...]

Indicted former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s ties to former congressmen Van Hilleary and Ed Bryant run deeper than most Tennesseans realized. According to the Chattanooga Times Free Press, Washington lobbyist Susan Hirschmann — one of Hilleary’s top political advisor [...]

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 [...]

Did Republican U.S. Senate candidate Van Hilleary lie to the Tennessean in 2003 when he insisted he wasn’t going to Washington to become a lobbyist? It looks that way. The background: On July 9, 2003, the Nashville newspaper reported that Hilleary, who lost in his 2002 bid for governor, had taken a job as a “Washington lobbyist [...]

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 [...]

U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas has been indicted for conspiracy in a campaign finance scheme, forcing him to temporarily step down from his leadership post. DeLay, one of the GOP's leading national figures, dismissed the charges as baseless and politically motivated. DeLay's indictment reverberated in federal [...]

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 [...]

After weeks of trying to make partisan political hay over ethics, the Tennessee Republican Party now is reeling from the August 16 news that State Representative Tre Hargett, the House Republican leader, is resigning to take a job as the chief lobbyist in Alabama and Tennessee for drug manufacturer Pfi [...]

The Tennessee Republican Party, under the leadership of state representative and former party chairwoman Beth Halteman-Harwell, violated federal campaign finance law by misusing more than $335,000 in political contributions, according to documents released yesterday by the Federal Election Commission. The FEC said an audit [...]