There are 40 article(s) tagged Phil Bredesen:

• April 2023

  • Opinion: Can Tennessee get it together on guns?

    In an op-ed, Democrat Phil Bredesen and Republican Bill Haslam, who served as governors successively from 2003 to 2019, offered some specifics around “small step” gun restrictions as starting points.

    By Edward Felsenthal April 15, 2023

• June 2021

  • General Assembly committee leadership short on diversity

    Since Bill Haslam was elected governor in 2010, Republicans have held control of Tennessee’s state government, with the party controlling the trifecta of the House, Senate and governor’s office. No Black politician has chaired a full, standing committee since then.

    By Ian Round June 15, 2021

• January 2021

  • The Memphis 10: Kustoff and company still side-stepping accountability

    Plus, Zach Randolph’s honor, a case for Scooby Doo, and restaurants that are gone but not forgotten.

    By Chris Herrington January 14, 2021

• December 2019

  • Nelson: Why Tennessee is no longer the mother of presidential contenders

    In none of the past three elections – 2012, 2016, and now 2020 – has anyone given a thought to the possibility that the next president might come from Tennessee.

    By Michael Nelson December 24, 2019

• November 2019

  • Ministers call for DNA testing in Sedley Alley case

    'As faith leaders, though we may hold different views, we stand together in our belief that, because the death penalty is an irreversible sentence, state officials must take every step to ensure public trust.'

    By Evan G. Collins, Eddie Dowdy II November 16, 2019

• December 2018

  • Burson campaign photos show new political reality

    Charles Burson began with the certainty that he was taking pictures of what would be Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign march to the presidency. That belief and his political experience influenced how and where the Memphis attorney and former Tennessee attorney general framed what he shot.

    By Bill Dries December 16, 2018

  • Ballot Basics: The Elections of 2018

    The last vote count of a busy election year is certified and in the books.

    By Bill Dries December 12, 2018

• November 2018

  • Dems see gains, but Haslam calls election ‘mixed’ night

    Democrats took a thrashing statewide in the midterm elections as a potential “blue wave” hit a “red wall” in Tennessee. But nationally, the tone was more middle of the road, and Memphis Democrats take solace in making some senatorial history.

    By Sam Stockard November 10, 2018

  • Sanford: Tennessee is clearly a microcosm of our current national politics – hopelessly divisive

    Phil Bredesen spent his last four minutes and 12 seconds in the spotlight Tuesday night coming to grips with the sobering reality that his time in politics is over.

    By Otis Sanford November 09, 2018

  • Majority of Shelby County voters turn out for the vote

    For the first time in 24 years a majority of Shelby County voters showed up for an election other than the presidential general election.

    By Bill Dries November 07, 2018

  • Lee makes history; Blackburn rolls over Bredesen

    Republican Bill Lee roared to victory Tuesday as the next Tennessee governor, making history by becoming the state’s first GOP governor-elect to follow a Republican governor in office.

    By Sam Stockard November 07, 2018

  • Both sides of partisan divide push Memphis voter turnout

    At his next-to-last campaign stop in his bid for the U.S. Senate Monday evening, former Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen had trouble getting in the door of Jim Neely’s Interstate Barbecue in South Memphis.

    By Bill Dries November 06, 2018

  • Blackburn rallies with Trump; Bredesen speaks to faith leaders

    Driving home their final points in the waning days of the U.S. Senate campaign, Republican Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn rallied with President Donald Trump while former Democratic governor Phil Bredesen spoke at an interfaith prayer lunch Sunday, Nov. 4.

    By Sam Stockard November 05, 2018

  • Blackburn, Bredesen clash over immigrant caravan but agree on birthright citizenship

    The immigrant caravan of thousands of people walking through Mexico to the U.S. border is creeping into Tennessee’s U.S. Senate race and, predictably, putting the candidates at odds in an already contentious race, this time over whether federal troops should be used there.

    By Sam Stockard November 05, 2018

  • Top statewide contenders expected in Shelby on election eve

    With no partisan primaries on the Nov. 6 ballot, it’s not clear whether voters will shift to blue or further solidify the state’s status since 2000 as a red or Republican state.

    By Bill Dries November 04, 2018

  • Early voting ends with ‘robust’ turnout, Medicaid stand by Dean

    Early voting in advance of the Nov. 6 Election Day ended Thursday evening with Shelby County turnout expected to remain below 200,000 and below the early voter turnout for the November 2016 presidential general election.

    By Bill Dries November 02, 2018

  • Blackburn leading Bredesen in three new polls for U.S. Senate seat

    With less than a week left until the Nov. 6 election, Republican U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn is leading former Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen in three new polls released this week.

    By Sam Stockard November 01, 2018

• October 2018

  • Politics doesn’t always make you nauseous (only most of the time)

    There’s a bit early in Primary Colors, Joe Klein’s written-as-Anonymous 1996 roman a clef on the 1992 Bill Clinton campaign, that comes to me from time to time.

    By Chris Herrington October 25, 2018

  • Bredesen, Blackburn chart different courses in Senate bid

    It’s not just that Phil Bredesen and Marsha Blackburn have different views on many issues. The Democratic and Republican contenders for the U.S. Senate seat on the Nov. 6 ballot differ on what’s at stake in the statewide race.

    By Bill Dries October 23, 2018

  • Blackburn, Bredesen careers take contrasting directions

    The race for an open U.S. Senate seat pits a self-declared moderate against a fire-brand conservative, and the legislative careers of former Gov. Phil Bredesen and U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn back up those definitions in a big-money battle that could swing Senate control.

    By Sam Stockard October 22, 2018

  • Bredesen would work with Trump to cut drug costs

    Former governor Phil Bredesen, finding common ground with Trump Republicans, is proposing a method for reducing pharmaceutical prices by using the president’s negotiating skills to cut a deal with drug companies.

    By Sam Stockard October 17, 2018

  • As governor, Bredesen faced the infant mortality crisis head on and made infant health a priority

    Of all the health care issues that any community faces, infant mortality causes the most heartbreak. Nothing matters more than giving our babies – each and every one of them – a fighting chance. Nowhere has it mattered more than in Memphis.

    By Danielle Tate October 17, 2018

  • Memo: Outside groups spending heavily as Bredesen, Blackburn deadlocked

    The U.S. Senate race between former Gov. Phil Bredesen and U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn is deadlocked, according to an internal Bredesen poll, even though outside groups are spending heavily against the former Tennessee governor.

    By Sam Stockard October 16, 2018

  • Blackburn pierces Bredesen with partisan politics

    Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn’s partisan attacks appear to be trumping former governor Phil Bredesen’s moderate politics as early voting approaches for the Nov. 6 election for an open U.S. Senate seat.

    By Sam Stockard October 15, 2018

  • Blackburn would spend $70B on border wall; Bredesen says he’d put money into technology

    Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn committed to spending tens of billions of dollars on constructing a wall at the Southern border, while former governor Phil Bredesen called such an idea antiquated Wednesday night.

    By Sam Stockard October 12, 2018