Tête-à-Tête-Tête

Hope everyone who got a three day weekend enjoyed all three. I got them & didn’t do so bad.
My kid, the younger stepson, went with his girlfriend’s family to a Barbecue at Zach Wamp’s to kick off election season. He brought back this big magnet (it just fits across the front of the [...]

My friend Alice gave an interview with the North Carolina based Pensito Review about Tennessee Politics. You can find it here. What I like about Alice is that she is so dang smart. The interview is a pretty good summary of the prospects in Tennessee for the November election [...]

I mentioned the organizational meeting for the campaign against the anti-marriage amendment last week.
This is an update. The coordinator came down from Nashville to help set a Chattanooga organization in motion. I feel she was disappointed - while we had some turnout for the meeting, we did not leave with a volunteer [...]

DarfurScores.org has bought themselves a blogad - money well spent if you ask me. But, in case you haven’t clickied on their ad, it’s worth checking out.
Tennessee Overall rated “C”.
Part of that was outgoing Senator Bill Frist, who earned a ‘B’. Not bad - but it’s embarrassing that our ultra-conservative majority leader [...]

As of Monday, Air America is off the radio in Chattanooga. WDOD 1310 is going to a new format. I hear they had to downgrade NYC affiliates, too.
I’ll miss the Al Franken Show, Bill Press, and a couple of the weekend local shows. I wasn’t very impressed with anything else on there, [...]

When: Friday, August 18th, 7 p.m.
Where: Unitarian Universalist Church of Chattanooga (directions)
The ballot in November asks voters to approve an amendment to the
Tennessee constitution which excludes same-sex couples from the civic,
spiritual, emotional and financial benefits of marriage that are now
enjoyed by heterosexual couples. I believe this amendment, if
approved, will hurt more people than [...]

This blog may, or may not, have just joined Chattablogs. If it has, then that is something to be proud of. JQ & friends at Chattablogs have done our town a service for quite a while, providing blog-space for Chattanoogans who otherwise might not have it, and providing a forum that brings a community together. [...]

I had a few moments of unrealistic optimism this morning and last night. As I so very rarely do, I wrote a kos Diary, since I didn’t see any other mention of Tennessee electoral events from last night there.

If you are looking for them: here.
Not much to go on, but I think Bob Corker is smiling. I’m smiling on behalf of Terry Stulce who’s leading the Democratic Primary for U.S. House in my district 59%-41% with 9% of precincts reporting.
Hamilton County offices aren’t listed here, but I’m trolling for them. Stay tuned.
Update:
Corker [...]