Cap and Trade’s Hot Air Tour Blows on to Nashville Fairground

This morning me and the youngest member of the clan, drove over to Nashville’s Fairgrounds to join in the outcry of stopping the Cap and Trade Environmental hysteria.

Chatty C. and I were greeted with free donuts, “Truth is Cool” t-shirt giveaways, and lots of global warming / climate change HOT AIR.

AFP President Tim Phillips rallied the troops to get out their cell phones right then and call their two state senators (Alexander & Corker). Who he said, both appeared to be facilitating on whether each would completely oppose this Cap & Trade legislation.

Giving out their office numbers, he asked everyone to call them right then and there and raise your hand if you got through. Hands began to trickle up periodically throughout the crowd of a couple of hundred.

Ben Cunningham and Lee Beaman were a few of the more notables seen in the crowd.
Good friends from church, Wayne and Ruth Hickman (Wayne seen in sunglasses in picture foreground) gave me a copy of the Media Malpractice Movie that was shown at the CoolSprings Thoroughbred last night. They told me that they did not want it back, just pass it along to someone else, so anyone who wants to see it, just let me know and I will pass it along to you.

Phil Valentine and Johnny B. reminded the folk that although numbers of current office holders might be in the clear majority to pass this legislation, similar odds were being played against when a few horn honkers started a ground swell that stopped the state income tax in Tennessee

He also mentioned a conversation with Senator Corker regarding his proposal for an amendment to allow the tax but give back the monies to the taxpayer. A shell game he would be very wary, one in which the return would surely be a smaller percentage than what was originally taken.

This Cap and Trade should be opposed not amended or made more palatable because of it’s feared inevitability.

TCPR’s Shaka Mitchell ended the rally with another cheer against the Cap and Trade proposal, preferring the Cap and Tax Moniker instead. Warning of much higher electrical cost at a time in Nashville where several thousand cannot pay their current utility bills.

As the balloon illustrates….Cap and Trade means: Lost Jobs-Higher Taxes-Less Freedom. An issue that many struggling in the current economic slow-down should hearken to educate themselves, their friends, and ultimately those policy makers representing them.

Tennessee GOP Senators want Specter Silver returned

A very reasonable request, but are we dealing with a reasonable politician ….. (an oxymoron I know!)

Alexander And Corker Want Money Back From Specter

In a statement earlier today on his party switch to the Democrats, Sen. Arlen Specter said he would return any monies donated to his campaign as a Republican upon request.

Sen. Lamar Alexander who just hours ago rebuked Specter for his actions will be taking him up on that offer.

Alexander was one of a group of Senators supporting Specter financially in his expected primary with conservative Pat Toomey. Now that Specter is no longer a Republican, Alexander will be asking for a refund of that money.

“Sen. Specter said he would return contributions made to him in this cycle, upon request. That’s the right thing for him to do, and we will request a refund,” Alexander said in a statement released by staff.

Tennessee’s other Senator, Bob Corker, will also be asking for a rebate on the money he has given the Senator from Pennsylvania. As point of fact, he already has.
When asked if the Senator would be asking for the campaign cash back, Post Politics was provided with a letter sent by Rock City PAC treasurer Kim Kaegi to the Specter campaign.

“[Rock City] PAC solicits funds to support Republican candidates and because Senator Specter in will no longer be running as a Republican in this election, we ask that the contribution be returned as soon as possible,” Kaegi says in the letter.

Specter’s primary challenger-to-be, Pat Toomey, is now expected to win the Republican nomination for Specter’s seat. It is unlikely that Specter will receive much of challenge in the Democratic Party primary although there have been rumblings to that effect.

By Kleinheider Posted on April 28, 2009 at 3:35 pm