With a one seat advantage in the state house, Tennessee’s Republican Party has empowered radical voices who spent the entire legislative session focused on abortion, guns and booze while the priorities of working families were ignored.
Rutherford County’s Republican delegation has sponsored legislation to deny our county’s growing unemployed the benefits they deserve. They’ve protested in the streets against enhanced health care for our veterans and millions for our schools. Rutherford County Republicans have said they want nothing to do with the jobs being created in our county and the help to retrain workers.
This is the real agenda of the Tennessee GOP, and if given more power in 2010, Republicans will redraw district lines and ensure their radical agenda has a regional foothold in American politics for years to come.
When the census is complete in 2011, the Tennessee General Assembly is charged with drawing new lines on congressional and state legislative districts.
With the state’s Republican Party taken over by “right-wing zealots,” Mr. Forrester said, the Democratic Party has developed a strategy to regain the House.
The House now has a one-member Republican advantage.
“We know we have enough money,” Mr. Forrester said. “We don’t know if we have enough boots on the ground.”
He said the party plans to target eight to 12 state Senate and House seats, while also making sure every state House and Senate seat up for election and held by a Republican has a Democratic challenger.
This is where we put a stop to it. This is where America’s Democratic party was born, and this is where your hard work starts to move Tennessee forward.
