House Speaker Beth Harwell will help lead a national effort to elect more Republican women to state office. Harwell was named Thursday as co-chair of Republican Women, Right Now, an initiative of the Republican State Leadership Committee. She will share duties with Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch, Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi and Washington Secretary [...]
Chip Saltsman, a former Tennessee GOP chairman and manager of Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s presidential campaign, has joined state Rep. Joe Carr’s congressional bid as its “campaign director.” Saltsman, who also managed U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann’s campaigns in 2010 and 2012, will “manage all facets” of the Lascassas Republican’s 4th Congressional District campaign, a spokesman [...]
Kane — we mean Glenn Jacobs — said Monday that he has “no plans on running for political office at this time” following a report late last week that he might be planning to take on U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander. The World Wrestling Entertainment star said “things get a little carried away on the Internet [...]
U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander has let Politico in on his grand campaign strategy — putting together an Operation Desert Storm-style force that will demolish anyone that gets in its way. “I’m running a Colin Powell military operation,” Alexander says in an interview with Politico posted Sunday, “which is assemble an overwhelming force, focus on a [...]
In a bid to distance his organization from a former leader’s comments, Davidson County Republican Party Chairman Robert Duvall said in a statement this morning that the county party has not taken a position on the possible dismissal of Election Administrator Albert Tieche. “As a partisan organization, it is not within our mission or goals [...]
In a bid to distance his organization from a former leader’s comments, Davidson County Republican Party Chairman Robert Duvall said in a statement this morning that the county party has not taken a position on the possible dismissal of Election Administrator Albert Tieche. “As a partisan organization, it is not within our mission or goals [...]
The possibility that Davidson County Election Administrator Albert Tieche will get fired Thursday has brought out partisans on both sides of the aisle. Kathleen Starnes, former chair of the Davidson County Republican Party, is one of several GOP members who have written emails to election commissioners in support of Tieche, another Republican. In her email [...]