Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Gray Sasser released the following statement regarding Lieutenant Governor Ron Ramsey’s late-night rule change, which allowed the adoption of a Senate rules committee report with less than the constitutional majority of seventeen: “Never before in Tennessee history has a [...]
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Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey Redefines Constitutional Majority
Tuesday, April 17th, 2007Democrats Want to Halt PAC Money Transfers
Thursday, February 8th, 2007NASHVILLE -- Political action committees would be banned from transferring campaign cash to other PACs under a bill introduced in the state Senate Wednesday. The bill sponsored by Sen. Joe Haynes, D-Nashville, follows an Associated Press report last month that a PAC controlled by Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey [...]
RAAMPAC Contributions to Beavers Questioned
Thursday, January 25th, 2007From The Lebanon Democrat: MT JULIET - Along with other Republicans state senators up for re-election in 2006, state Sen. Mae Beavers benefited from what may have been an attempt to circumvent campaign finance regulations from Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey [...]
Contributions to Ketron, Tracy Questioned
Friday, January 19th, 2007From The Daily News Journal: MURFREESBORO -- Local Republican State Sens. Bill Ketron and Jim Tracy may have benefited from questionable campaign contributions from two Republican political action committees, according to an Associated Press analysis of campaign finance records. Republican [...]
GOP PAC's Skirt Campaign Finance Laws
Thursday, January 18th, 2007From The Associated Press: NASHVILLE -- Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey's political action committee avoided campaign contribution limits by giving money to another PAC, which then directed money to key Republican candidates, an Associated Press analysis of campaign finance records has found. Ramsey's committee, [...]
King Pharmaceuticals Settles Medicaid Lawsuit
Tuesday, January 16th, 2007NASHVILLE -- An East Tennessee pharmaceutical company with close financials ties to newly elected Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey and the Tennessee Republican Party last week settled another lawsuit accusing [...]
Ramsey's In-Session Fundraising Questioned
Thursday, January 11th, 2007As Ron Ramsey takes the helm of the Tennessee Senate, Go4Truth thought it might be helpful to its readers to reprint the following story from the Tennessean concerning questions about Ramsey's fundraising during last year's legislative session. (Sen. Diane Black, the newly elected Republican Caucus chair in [...]
Ramsey to GOP Foes: 'Don't Make Me Come Back There!'
Wednesday, May 10th, 2006Ron Ramsey is not amused by the name calling and bickering in the Republican U.S. Senate primary. The Nashville Post reported yesterday that the state Senate majority leader "wants his party's candidates to replace outgoing U. S. Sen. Bill Frist to ease their verbal war with one another in their primary campaigns." [...]
Tuke Calls on GOP to Return Gregory Money
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005Tennessee 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 [...]
Republicans Balk at Contribution Limits
Tuesday, October 18th, 2005Debate 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 [...]
