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Daily Dose for December 05, 2006
Daily Dose
2006 Best in Politics Awards -- Be sure to make your nominations in the Tennessee Politics Blog 2006 Best in Politics awards. We're rounding up the best political action in 2006 - and allowing you to vote on the best political players and plays. Nominations are open until December 11 and then you will have until the end of the year to vote on the awards.
Davis Reelected GOP Chair -- Tennessee Republican Party Chairman Bob Davis was unanimously re-elected to the post this past weekend during the State Executive Committee meeting in Nashville. Davis outlined his straightforward goals: "We must ensure we re-elect Senator Lamar Alexander, win Tennessee for the Republican presidential nominee and take control of the state legislature."
Bredesen Advocates Consolidated 911 -- Governor Bredesen advocates consolidating the state's 911 centers instead of investing in local call centers, according to today's Chattanooga paper. Bredesen: "Some counties have it in a trailer with one person...Rather than supplementing that, maybe we should be telling them to consolidate those counties and have an effective, modern 911 operation."
Memphis City Council Shuffle -- Five members of the Memphis City Council advocated that fellow Councilmen Rickey Peete and Edmund Ford resign after the pair were indicted on federal public corruption charges. In an unrelated mater, City council chairwoman TaJuan Stout Mitchell resigned her spot to take a job in Memphis Mayor Willie Herenton's administration. The intergovernmental post pays over twice as much as the city council gig.
A Retrospective on Cooley -- John Rodgers tracks the relationship between Phil Bredesen and his right-hand man Dave Cooley through the good and the bad, hitting the highlights including their meeting and more recent events like an encounter with Judd Matheny and the infamous ticket incident.
Public/Private Toll Roads? -- Department of Transportation Commissioner Gerald Nicely said Tennessee should festina lente on public-private partnerships to create toll roads in Tennessee. Other states have begun implementing toll road programs where private companies build the roads and collect a portion of the proceeds for themselves. Bredesen is skeptical of the whole toll road concept: "When it comes to where you would put a road in Tennessee that somebody would pay to drive on and they couldn’t just easily take a road along side of it somewhere, it’s not obvious about where that is."
