U.S. Representative Cory Gardner (CO-4) Delivers Weekly Republican Address
By: RNC Comms
Link:
U.S. Representative Cory Gardner (CO-4) Delivers Weekly Republican Address - Video
Herbert Slatery speaks about his appointment as attorney general in the Tennessee Supreme Court chamber in Nashville on Sept. 15.
NASHVILLE Newly appointed state Attorney General Herbert Slatery, who last week became only the second Republican in Tennessee history to hold the post, fully embraces the unusual process in which the state Supreme Court names the state's top lawyer.
But what Slatery, and most other people, may not know is that Tennessee's one and only previous Republican attorney general, Thomas M. Coldwell, who served from 1865 to 1870, also happened to be the last one popularly elected to the job.
"It's an interesting story," said former Tennessee Attorney General W.J. Michael Cody, who said he researched the history of Tennessee's unique approach with former Deputy Attorney General Andy Bennett, now a Court of Appeals judge. Most other states, including Georgia and Alabama, elect their attorneys general.
Indeed it is an interesting story, of suspected intrigues in the post-Civil War Reconstruction era. It ranks with the tale of Republican Slatery's own appointment over sitting Democratic Attorney General Bob Cooper by a Supreme Court dominated by Democrats.
In the present day the court's three Democrats -- Justices Sharon Lee, Connie Clark and Gary Wade -- survived efforts by Republican state Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey and national conservatives to unseat them in August elections.
Then the Democratic justices and their two Republican colleagues declined to reappoint Cooper and named Slatery, who was Republican Gov. Bill Haslam's legal counsel, instead.
The 19th-century story involves a former U.S. senator-turned Confederate from Tennessee, A.O.P. Nicholson, and his fellow Tennessean and Confederate Congress member Joseph Heiskell.
Both attorneys, the pair evidently became fast friends during the Civil War while cooling their heels in a Yankee prison.
With apparently a lot of time to daydream, Cody said, Heiskell decided he'd like to be attorney general. Well, Nicholson came back, he'd like to be a Supreme Court judge.
Originally posted here:
Last Tennessee Republican AG was elected in 1865
Woman Doesn #39;t Know Why Republican Scott Brown Gave Her an Award
Janice Leahy receives a made-up award from Republican Scott Brown http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/scott-brown-janice-leahy-hero-award On the Bonus Sh...
By: David Pakman Show
Go here to see the original:
Woman Doesn't Know Why Republican Scott Brown Gave Her an Award - Video
"Meatless Mondays" Make Republican LOSE HIS MIND
Are "meatless Mondays" a liberal plot to turn our kids into vegetarians?! A top Texas official denounced school districts that have scaled back on serving me...
By: johniadarola
More:
"Meatless Mondays" Make Republican LOSE HIS MIND - Video
Republican Leadership Press Conference - September 16, 2014
At a press conference today, Republican leaders urged Senate Democrats to act on the dozens of House-passed jobs bills they #39;re blocking, including two more m...
By: House Republicans
See the rest here:
Republican Leadership Press Conference - September 16, 2014 - Video