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secure state with this law q 2nd amendment issues will likely come up if republicans maintain the majority in the general assembly what would be your stance on these issues a well i m a strong 2nd amendment protector and i have been the 15 years that i ve been a member of the united states congress and have basically a 100 percent record on this guns are a 2nd amendment right it s a constitutional issue and you have to look at the legislation but if the legislation that the general assembly sends me as governor basically protects people s right to have and bear arms in this state then i m gonna sign the legislation and in this case a right to carry permit statute in tennessee has been a good thing not a bad thing this is one of those consitutional issues that states need to stand straight and tall on bill haslam q if you were governor would you have signed guns in bars a i would have signed it number one i think permit holders understand they can not consume alcohol and i m not certain why they can walk into mcdonalds but not walk into chili s number two i think it s important as long as that individual property owner can decide what happens on his or her own property and that restaurant or bar owner can make the determination whether they want people with their carry permits coming inside or not q 2nd amendment issues will likely come up if republicans maintain the majority in the general assembly what would be your stance on these issues a i think the 2nd amendment clearly gives the right for individuals to bear arms and the supreme court has affirmed that as governor i ll work to protect that but i think we have some big challenges facing us as a state in terms of the state budget and continuing some reform in education and primarily focusing on jobs going forward as governor you re going to see me primarily focused on these things but i will fight to protect people s 2nd amendment rights ron ramsey q if you were governor would you have signed guns in bars a i d sign the bill this is much ado about nothing we re the 36th state to adopt a law like this and i d challenge anyone to find me one documented case where this has been abused when i carried the gun carry bill in 1997 we saw the same mass hysteria that we re seeing now saying that you can t trust ordinary citizens with a firearm we have almost 300 000 permit holders now and basically zero problems with them q 2nd amendment issues will likely come up if republicans maintain the majority in the general assembly what would be your stance on these issues a i may be one of the biggest proponent of 2nd amendment rights in the state of tennessee i believe in law abiding citizens having the right to defend themselves it s that simple when we re talking about felons having firearms when we re talking about crooks with guns i ll throw the book at them we need to make sure that law abiding citizens rights are protected and we do that by making sure that criminals don t have guns mike mcwherter sent a statement q if you were governor would you have signed guns in bars a while i support the rights of gun owners to carry their weapons there are some situations that are too volatile and unpredictable to allow the introduction of loaded weapons i would have liked to work with legislators to craft legislation that addressed the difference between taking a gun into an applebee s at noon to eat lunch and bringing one into a honky tonk at 1 a m to start trouble however the legislation that governor bredesen vetoed did not address common sense safety issues and i am unable to support it q 2nd amendment issues will likely come up if republicans maintain the majority in the general assembly what would be your stance on these issues a as a member of the nra i fully support our 2nd amendment rights and would work to ensure those rights are protected categorized in uncategorized race to the top the real signing january 26 2010 2 responses today there was pomp and circumstance surrounding the signing of the higher education bill and the race to the top bill however the governor admitted because of the race to the top deadline he actually signed that bill in a movie theater parking lot here s what he said the actual signing i have an iphone picture of somewhere it took place in a garage andrea and i were on our way to the movies they brought the thing to me and it was signed on the back of a car people who were in the parking lot at the time thought it might be a drug deal i requested the photograph fromlydia lenker the governor s press secretary here it is categorized in uncategorized special session call january 8 2010 leave a response the governor just sent out his call for a special session the worker s comp issue is in the call along with all of the education issues we ve been talking about for a while i ve attached the proclamation proclamation categorized in uncategorized john wilder passes january 1 2010 leave a response former lt gov john wilder passed away this morning after suffering a stroke earlier in the week he was 88 i am working on a full story for the newscasts but will post reaction as i get it here is the statement from speaker emeritus jimmy naifeh governor wilder was one of the most honest men i have ever known his integrity and commitment not only to his district but to the entire state of tennessee is a shining example of what it means to be a great leader when you look up the word statesmen in the dictionary you re sure to find john wilder s name he was a good man i m proud to say he was truly my friend i had great respect for him and will miss him here is the full statement naifeh statement on the passing of john wilder updates i have more quotes from both senator joe haynes and lt gov ron ramsey i had a long relationship with governor wilder he and i served together in the senate for 22 years he was my speaker for 22 years i was both for him and against him at that time i tried to beat him twice in that time and couldn t do it he and i became friends over the duration of that and i developed a lot of respect for him he was well intended he thought everything he did he did for the good of the state of tennessee senator joe haynes d goodlettsville the style that he had trying to bring everyone together and not have partisan politics i think that s one reason we re different from what s going on in washington right now we do all get along in the state senate and he ll go down in history no doubt about that as someone who made tennessee a better place to live lt gov ron ramsey r blountville updated with governor bredesen rep john tanner and sen lamar alexander s statements andrea and i were both saddened to hear of john wilder s death and want to express our sympathy and condolences to his family i hope they take comfort in reflecting on what a long and productive life he led gov wilder was one of the toughest men i ve ever known a couple of years ago he fell and cut himself at his home and lost a lot of blood before he could get to the hospital i visited him in the intensive care unit at the med where he couldn t talk because he still had a ventilator tube in his throat that was on friday the following monday he flew his plane back to nashville while we often agreed on issues i don t know that there are two people in tennessee politics whose political styles are more different than john wilder s and mine despite that or perhaps because of it we worked together well we got some things done and we grew a genuine friendship it was a privilege to know this unique tennessean i wish it could have been for a longer time john always told me that his goal in life was to make a difference for his state i believe he made it governor phil bredesen with gov wilder s passing our state and country have lost a most dedicated public servant i was honored to work alongside john in the tennessee general assembly and during my time in congress he had a great understanding of the problems facing tennesseans and a strong willingness to work with others toward bipartisan solutions betty ann and i offer our deepest condolences to the wilder family and all those who loved and worked with him during his long career rep john tanner d tennessee john wilder was a tennessee institution the very definition of a gentleman legislator during the l980s i saw firsthand how effective he could be when i worked with him on one of his most important contributions the reorganization of the state board of education sen lamar alexander r tennessee categorized in uncategorized budget hearings corrections november 16 2009 leave a response the department of correction is going to have to cut 52 million it said it is now left with only two options to get that savings either close a prison or early release 3 300 convicted felons from local jails the state pays for felons that are currently in local jails we re talking about those who have been convicted of class c d or e felonies the example tdoc commissioner george little used is a convicted drug dealer tdoc would look at early release for these nonviolent offenders who are at the end of their sentences in addition he thinks the recidivism rate for these offenders would be higher so some of these people would end up back in the system he didn t mince words today but he says the state is out of options court intervention dating back to the mid 1980s prevents tdoc from crowding the prisons like california has done during these budget times closing a prison he says would result in layoffs and possibly destroy a county s economy in addition most of the prisoners in state custody are usually the more serious offenders the governor wasn t exactly thrilled at the possibility of early release he wants to make sure that the state gets the savings it needs to balance the budget if tdoc moves in that direction categorized in uncategorized budget hearings education november 16 2009 leave a response i know i ve been absent from blogging for awhile but there s no better time to start it up again then at the start of budget hearings the governor started out saying that there were going to be some very harsh cuts coming up in this budget k 12 education is the first department up the governor is always trying to protect the bep money that goes to fund the basics of education statewide think teachers books classrooms etc based on the department of education s budget they are asking for an increase of more than 82 million increase in the bep inflationary costs they are then proposing cutting personnel in the department of education administration safe school grants k 2 assessment 10 percent of the funds to books from birth that does not include the stimulus money that is going away when stimulus money disappears extended contracts for after school tutoring will be done as will school health programs and some professional development the governor also asked commisioner tim webb to see if it was possible to ask teachers to step up and help during this budget crisis he said he hasn t cut positions or reduced pay it may be time to ask teachers to maybe help and continue some of the programs even if they can t be paid for them gov phil bredesen is also floating the idea worst case scenario that he doesn t fund the bep inflationary increase webb says that would likely have an impact on personnel in most districts because the majority of that money goes to fund salaries and benefits finance commissioner dave goetz is also floating the idea of cutting residential services for blind and deaf students categorized in uncategorized stimulus in tennessee october 12 2009 leave a response according to a release the state has created or saved 7 710 jobs through the federal stimulus plan here s the release nashville tenn tennessee has successfully met its first federal reporting requirements for funds that have flowed to or through the state under the american recovery and reinvestment act arra the recovery act is providing states with more than 246 billion of a total 787 billion made available to create and retain jobs invest in infrastructure and speed economic recovery tennessee was allocated a total of 5 6 billion the state reported on 3 billion received and spent by the state through recovery act grants our recovery act team and state agencies worked literally hundreds of hours toward an unprecedented accomplishment with no additional staff hired to handle the reporting process deputy governor john morgan said it s important to remember the recovery act is a two year program and this is just the first reporting period additional reporting on the use of recovery act funds will occur quarterly going forward the state transmitted a total of 310 project reports for the period ending september 30 2009 via federalreporting gov the central government wide data collection system of those 258 were for transportation projects alone the reports represent grants totaling 214 9 million received by 15 state agencies the reports reflect 7 710 9 jobs created and retained through september 30 through these funds a major component of the recovery act is the requirement for an unprecedented level of transparency and accountability so people can see how the funds are being spent specific reporting requirements have been set for government agencies and recipients of recovery funds to measure progress federal agencies prime recipients and sub recipients are required to submit data within 10 days after the end of each calendar quarter for grants loans and federally awarded contracts under the recovery act the first reporting period ended on september 30 and reports were submitted by recipients including states between october 1 and october 10 2009 the next reports will be submitted in january 2010 the section 1512 reporting process includes 99 different data elements the number of data elements reported per program depends on the fields applicable to the program and varies based on the number of sub awards and vendors if any under that program the state of tennessee chose to centralize its reporting to minimize the likelihood of duplications in the data or non compliance with federal requirements the federalreporting gov web site works in conjunction with the recovery gov web site the data submitted to federalreporting gov will be reviewed and validated by the funding awarding agencies from october 11 29 and then those reports and visual representations of the information will be available to the public via recovery gov recipient contract data will be published on recovery gov october 15 and recipient grant and loan data will be published on the site on october 30 the data can be viewed online or downloaded in xml format a standard structure for the transfer of data for those who want to create their own reports the reporting by the state of tennessee and other states represents only part of the recovery picture funds awarded directly to non state agencies will have been reported by those recipients and t...
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