Tribe/Suzy Wong’s gets state’s first bar license
Tribe and Suzy Wong’s House of Yum, a restaurant-and-nightclub combo on Church Street in Nashville, was issued the state’s first limited service liquor license, Nashville lawyer Will Cheek says on his blog.
The legislature created the limited-service license earlier this year amid the debate over whether to let guns into bars and restaurants that serve alcohol. Some bars complained that the requirement on their liquor license that they derive a significant portion of their income from food sales is impossible for them to meet because their customers just don’t want to eat. Not meeting the food-service requirement opened them to fines or the risk of losing their licenses.
Cheek describes the license as “the first time since before prohibition that the state has legitimately issued a liquor license to a bar.”
House could have 57 GOP districts
Updated at 10:55 a.m. to correct headline
GOP committeeman John Ryder tells the Commercial Appeal that Tennessee could have as many as 57 GOP-majority districts after redistricting, in an interview after Tuesday’s no-media lunch with the Davidson County Republican Party.
Ryder also said Nashville’s suburbs are the most likely communities to pick up seats in the 99-member House of Representatives.
Bill Frist to host Nashville fundraiser for Haslam
Former Senate Majority Bill Frist will host a fundraiser in Nashville for Bill Haslam, according to a presser from the Knoxville mayor.
The event is part of a series of fundraisers around the state with Republican bigwigs that includes an event in Memphis co-hosted by FedEx founder Fred Smith and one in East Tennessee hosted by Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey. The Chattanooga event will be hosted by Sen. Bob Corker, with Lamar Alexander in attendance. (No mention of any other prominent Republican guests from that fair city.)
The complete presser follows:
HASLAM ANNOUNCES REGIONAL FUNDRAISERS AND EVENT LEADERSHIP
Events Highlight Growing Momentum for Knoxville Mayor
NASHVILLE – Republican gubernatorial candidate and Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam’s campaign announced an impressive calendar of regional fundraisers and event leadership for the General Election.
The events and leadership show the tremendous confidence in Bill Haslam, his experience and his ability to lead our state as our next Governor. Tennesseans from across the state are coalescing behind him as the best prepared to take on this state’s challenges, make it the No. 1 location in the Southeast for jobs and capitalize on its unique opportunities.
The events are:
- September 16 in Memphis: hosted by Barbara and Pitt Hyde, Dina and Brad Martin, Amy and Bill Rhodes, and Diane and Fred Smith
- September 21 in Jackson: hosted by Alice and Carl Kirkland, Jimmy Wallace and Gary Taylor
- September 22 in Parsons: hosted by Janet and Jim Ayers and Fran and Scooter Clippard
- September 24 in Chattanooga: hosted by Elizabeth and Sen. Bob Corker with Honey and Sen. Lamar Alexander in attendance
- September 27 in Limestone: hosted by Sandy and Jim Powell and Lieutenant Governor Ron Ramsey
- September 28 in Knoxville: hosted by Cindi and Pete DeBusk
- October 4 in Nashville: hosted by Karyn and former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and chaired by Steve Smith.
“These events showcase the strong statewide support for Bill Haslam and his vision to make Tennessee the No. 1 location in the Southeast for jobs,” said Kim Kaegi, Campaign Finance Director. “With only five weeks until early voting starts, these events should put the campaign in a great position.”
“Crissy and I are incredibly grateful to all of the Tennesseans from each of our great state’s 95 counties who have already been so generous to us, but I promised we’ll keep working and we’re doing that,” Haslam said. “I’m humbled by the people that have stepped forward to host for us, and we truly appreciate their efforts as we work toward the start ofearly voting on Oct. 13 and Election Day Nov. 2.”
Mayor Haslam is the two-term Republican Mayor of Knoxville, reelected in 2007 with 87 percent of the vote. A hardworking public servant, Haslam led Knoxville to become one of the top ten metropolitan areas for business and expansion, while reducing the city’s debt, tripling the rainy day fund, reducing the number of city employees to the lowest amount in 15 years and bringing property taxes to the lowest rate in 50 years. An executive leader with a proven record of success, he helped grow his family’s small business from 800 employees into one of Tennessee’s largest companies with 14,000 employees.
For more information on Bill Haslam, please visit www.BillHaslam.com.
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GOP group looks forward to 2011
Updated 9/8 with Story’s story and a working website link
How confident are Republicans that Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam will win in November? One group is already putting him on its brochure for an event with Karl Rove in April.
Conservatives on the Move, a organization that lists Fabian Story as its executive director and its address as a Nashville P.O. box, gives Haslam equal billing to Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey on a flyer for an event on April 9, 2011, at the Marriott Cool Springs.*
* Date and location subject to change, says a footnote.
The inside of the brochure says Conservatives on the Move “is a grassroots political and social movement designed to educate today’s American as to the meaning and the message of conservatism.” What does that mean? The brochure mentions outreach to civic groups and a “specialized educational curriculum” on American history, economics and the Constitution that will “help ensure the stability of our republic one mind at a time.”
The organization also speaks of its Internet presence, though the website on the brochure, www.conservativesonthemove.org, does not appear to exist. A quick search of the Registry of Election Finance and the Federal Election Commission also turned up nothing.
Update: Story contacted us after reading this post to say that Conservatives on the Move has applied for nonpartisan 501 ( c ) 3 status and was not endorsing or taking a guess on the outcome of the November election with its prominent placement of Haslam on the brochure’s cover. The group just likes his fiscal stances, he says.
Story also said that, despite what’s written on the brochure, the website’s address is conservativesonthemove.org, without the “www.”
GOP group looks forward to 2011
How confident are Republicans that Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam will win in November? One group is already putting him on its brochure for an event with Karl Rove in April.
Conservatives on the Move, a organization that lists Fabian Story as its executive director and its address as a Nashville P.O. box, gives Haslam equal billing to Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey on a flyer for an event on April 9, 2011, at the Marriott Cool Springs.*
* Date and location subject to change, says a footnote.
The inside of the brochure says Conservatives on the Move “is a grassroots political and social movement designed to educate today’s American as to the meaning and the message of conservatism.” What does that mean? The brochure mentions outreach to civic groups and a “specialized educational curriculum” on American history, economics and the Constitution that will “help ensure the stability of our republic one mind at a time.”
The organization also speaks of its Internet presence, though the website on the brochure does not appear to exist. A quick search of the Registry of Election Finance and the Federal Election Commission also turned up nothing.
Phil Bredesen signs up for Facebook
Gov. Phil Bredesen seems to be well on his way to the civilian life, at least if this profile on the Book of Faces is any indication.
The popular governor set up the profile recently, says a spokeswoman, and it is strictly for his personal use. Evidence, perhaps, is in the number of friends Bredesen has, only 131 at the time of writing, or roughly the number that an incoming Vandy freshman can expect to pickup in the first five minutes of orientation.
Further evidence that this is Bredesen’s personal happy space (now thrust into the public domain) can be found in Bredesen’s choice of profile photo. This is no pol in a blue suit, or even Bredesen in his Green Vest of Comfort. Bredesen said a couple of weeks ago that he looks forward to taking a few months off once his term ends. Could he be dreaming of those sun-kissed days already?
For the record, here’s Phil Bredesen’s official Facebook page. Note the yellow power tie and statesman-like columns.
Phil Bredesen signs up for Facebook
Gov. Phil Bredesen seems to be well on his way to the civilian life, at least if this profile on the Book of Faces is any indication.
The popular governor set up the profile recently, says a spokeswoman, and it is strictly for his personal use. Evidence, perhaps, is in the number of friends Bredesen has, only 131 at the time of writing, or roughly the number that an incoming Vandy freshman can expect to pickup in the first five minutes of orientation.
Further evidence that this is Bredesen’s personal happy space (now thrust into the public domain) can be found in Bredesen’s choice of profile photo. This is no pol in a blue suit, or even Bredesen in his Green Vest of Comfort. Bredesen said a couple of weeks ago that he looks forward to taking a few months off once his term ends. Could he be dreaming of those sun-kissed days already?
For the record, here’s Phil Bredesen’s official Facebook page. Note the yellow power tie and statesman-like columns.
Redistricting talk closed to the press
Reporters were turned away this noontide from a presentation on redistricting to the Davidson County Republican Party’s First Tuesday lunch club from “Mr. Inside,” as they called him, John Ryder, Tennessee rep to the Republican National Committee.
Republicans have repeatedly complained that previous redistricting efforts (controlled by Democrats) have left them underrepresented in the state legislature and Congress, and we were eager to hear Ryder give his take on how that situation might be addressed if Republicans run the table this November. But organizer Tim Skow met reporters at the door, saying that club members had been promised the lunch would be off the record.
It seems improbable that Ryder would have blabbed a lot of top-secret Republican Party info to an entire lunch club — even one fully populated by partisans — but something has them getting shy. Certainly the following description of the event is tantalizing:
You want HOT political discussion?
You want to know what we can do “legally” to make the DEMs scream as a result of redistricting?
You want to know what is going on inside of the Republican Party at the National level and what we will likely see nationally between now and Nov 2nd?
You want to meet Tennessee’s “man in the know”?
Then you want to be at 1ST TUESDAY on Sept 7th when JOHN RYDER — our National Republican Committee Man from Tennessee makes his first visit to 1ST TUESDAY !
Redistricting talk closed to the press
Reporters were turned away this noontide from a presentation on redistricting to the Davidson County Republican Party’s First Tuesday lunch club from “Mr. Inside,” as they called him, John Ryder, Tennessee rep to the Republican National Committee.
Republicans have repeatedly complained that previous redistricting efforts (controlled by Democrats) have left them underrepresented in the state legislature and Congress, and we were eager to hear Ryder give his take on how that situation might be addressed if Republicans run the table this November. But organizer Tim Skow met reporters at the door, saying that club members had been promised the lunch would be off the record.
It seems improbable that Ryder would have blabbed a lot of top-secret Republican Party info to an entire lunch club — even one full populated by partisans — but something has them getting shy. Certainly the following description of the event is tantalizing.
You want HOT political discussion?
You want to know what we can do “legally” to make the DEMs scream as a result of redistricting?
You want to know what is going on inside of the Republican Party at the National level and what we will likely see nationally between now and Nov 2nd?
You want to meet Tennessee’s “man in the know”?
Then you want to be at 1ST TUESDAY on Sept 7th when JOHN RYDER — our National Republican Committee Man from Tennessee makes his first visit to 1ST TUESDAY !
Redistricting talk closed to the press
Reporters were turned away this noontide from a presentation on redistricting to the Davidson County Republican Party’s First Tuesday lunch club from “Mr. Inside,” as they called him, John Ryder, Tennessee rep to the Republican National Committee.
Republicans have repeatedly complained that previous redistricting efforts (controlled by Democrats) have left them underrepresented in the state legislature and Congress, and we were eager to hear Ryder give his take on how that situation might be addressed if Republicans run the table this November. But organizer Tim Skow met reporters at the door, saying that club members had been promised the lunch would be off the record.
It seems improbable that Ryder would have blabbed a lot of top-secret Republican Party info to an entire lunch club — even one full populated by partisans — but something has them getting shy. Certainly the following description of the event is tantalizing.
You want HOT political discussion?
You want to know what we can do “legally” to make the DEMs scream as a result of redistricting?
You want to know what is going on inside of the Republican Party at the National level and what we will likely see nationally between now and Nov 2nd?
You want to meet Tennessee’s “man in the know”?
Then you want to be at 1ST TUESDAY on Sept 7th when JOHN RYDER — our National Republican Committee Man from Tennessee makes his first visit to 1ST TUESDAY !