Conaway: Our parents deserve better from us
We can’t even stand up and come together as one to fight something that’s killing us for two or three months without falling apart. After all, we need our nails done and a haircut.
Topic: Donald Trump
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May 2020
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April 2020
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We’re missing national unity in this crisis
The dissension has filtered down to statehouses and into the streets, with thoughtless protesters thumbing their noses at social distancing and demanding that states end stay-at-home orders.
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Nelson: What do Trump and Tennessee’s Democratic Party have in common? Disdain for constitutional democracy
The Democratic voters of District 90 were going to have a choice in August about their nominee for state representative, which is what constitutional democracy is all about. But the state party’s executive committee denied them that choice by striking John DeBerry’s name from the ballot.
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Sanford: The Trump-Corker plan to put profit over people went bust – fortunately
I knew that former Sen. Bob Corker briefly served as a Tennessee commissioner of finance. What I didn’t know is that Corker cares more about finances than human lives. I knew he had guts. I also thought he had a heart.
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March 2020
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Conaway: The reality of old white men
A collection of old white men may sound like a Cabinet meeting in Washington or a Senate vote, but it was just another Tuesday and the regular meeting of my “and I’ll tell you another damn thing” lunch group.
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Trump surveys Tennessee tornado damage
President Donald Trump traveled to Tennessee on Friday to tour neighborhoods where lives and homes were destroyed by tornadoes that swept through parts of the state earlier this week.
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February 2020
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Nelson finds comparisons and contrast between Clinton and Trump
Presidential historian Michael Nelson of Rhodes College has a new book about the Clinton presidency and the former Arkansas governor's two runs for the White House. On The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, Nelson linked Clinton's influence and time in power to the course that brought Donald Trump to the White House.
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Not a fan of debates? Watch the Super Tuesday show anyway
Some critics argue that debates between candidates are shallow and superficial. To which I say: Compared to what? When else do we get to see them side by side, without their handlers?
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Sanford: Lamar Alexander needed courage – and an editor
Instead of the word salad that came from Tennessee’s senior Republican senator late on the evening of Jan. 30, all we really needed was a single sentence.
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December 2019
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Nelson: Will Steve Cohen’s grandstanding keep him off the impeachment prosecution team?
The Memphis congressman is the fourth most senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, which wrote the two articles that are the basis of the Senate trial. But Cohen’s peers tend to regard him as a grandstander rather than a team player.
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November 2019
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China tariffs hinder Tennessee jobs, commissioner says
International job clients are hitting the "pause button" on relocations to Tennessee because of the U.S. trade war with China, according to Economic and Community Development Commissioner Bob Rolfe
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October 2019
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Nelson: Biden and Obama were a ‘two-man wrecking crew’ against a divided America
When the presidential debate is held in Tennessee next year, will Joe Biden face off with Donald Trump? The new book “Barack and Joe” presents the potential Democratic nominee as a “rare blend of moderate thinking and immoderate decency.”
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Ford Jr. offers nuanced view of partisan politics and Trump
Former Congressman Harold Ford Jr. returned to his hometown and the city he represented for a decade in Washington to talk about national politics, President Trump and the city’s edge.
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September 2019
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Nelson: Mid-South hosted 2 presidential debates in ‘08. How about 2020?
Debates between presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain were held at Belmont in Nashville and Ole Miss in Oxford. Belmont has applied to host another one next fall. Ole Miss thought better of it.
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Hagerty enters U.S. Senate race with heavy dose of Trump
Citing a mid-summer endorsement by President Donald Trump and playing heavily on conservative themes, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Bill Hagerty entered the 2020 U.S. Senate race’s Republican primary Monday morning.
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Nelson: Tennessee’s sad history with impeachment
Four of the first six federal officials to be impeached by the House of Representatives were Tennesseans, including the first president ever indicted for “high Crimes and Misdemeanors,” Tennessee’s Andrew Johnson.
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August 2019
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Corker questions wisdom of China trade war
Former U.S. Sen. Bob Corker believes the United States’ trade war against China is “getting out of hand” because of the nation’s failure to bring allies into the fight.
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Former Gov. Haslam predicts Trump wins if Democrats continue leftward trend
Former Gov. Bill Haslam is forecasting a Trump victory in the 2020 presidential race if Democrats continue to trend leftward but otherwise sees a tight race in a “split” country, though he won't say he will vote for President Trump.
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Sexton meets NRA leader but says no gun talk took place
House Speaker nominee believes gun laws should be handled at the federal level for the sake of uniformity.
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FedEx chief Smith working to shape new trade agenda
FedEx chief Frederick W. Smith is one of three co-chairs of a Washington-based business think tank's new commission exploring ways to develop a positive trade agenda for the United States.
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Ronald Reagan wouldn’t recognize this Republican Party
In Tennessee, more than 70,000 citizen children live with an undocumented family member. If a large-scale immigration raid occurred in our neighborhoods, it would have ramifications among the nearly 14,000 Latino/Latina children attending Shelby County Schools.
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State Rep. Lamar calls out Trump over mass shootings
With Democrats from across the nation calling for stricter gun laws in the wake of two mass shootings, state Rep. London Lamar said President Donald Trump planted the seeds for the deadly incidents by fomenting hatred.
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Lee pinpoints cybersecurity as potential tool to stop shootings
Gov. Bill Lee is analyzing gun control legislation in the wake of two mass shootings nationally but appears most interested in cybersecurity to stop people who show signs of radicalism or mental “instability.”
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July 2019
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Sethi claims ‘GOP establishment’ tried to talk him out of Senate run
With U.S. Ambassador to Japan Bill Hagerty likely to run for the U.S. Senate, the first Republican to enter the race, Manny Sethi, is calling out the Republican “establishment,” saying it pressured him not to seek the seat.
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Hagerty resigning from Japan ambassadorship with U.S. Senate run expected
With a U.S. Senate run in the offing, Bill Hagerty is leaving his post as U.S. Ambassador to Japan after two years of service, the U.S. Embassy announced Tuesday.
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