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 [...]
We weren’t going to report on the first phone survey of the 2015 Nashville mayor’s race until we could put a face behind the polling, but now the cat is out of the bag. In his weekly column, veteran journalist Pat Nolan reported on a recent phone survey that asked participants about a slew of [...]
During a discussion Tuesday about Nashville’s injured-on-duty policies, a Metro Human Resources official used an unfortunate turn of phrase to describe police officers, firefighters and others who suffer injuries that the government deems catastrophic. Asked at a Civil Service Commission meeting how employees with “obviously catastrophic” injuries would be treated by a review panel under [...]
When Davidson County’s Republican legislative delegation submitted its nominations for three positions on the county election commission Wednesday, it was two days late, according to the schedule laid out in state law. Tennessee Code Annotated 2-12-101 says the State Election Commission “shall appoint, on the first Monday in April of each odd-numbered year, five (5) [...]
While she’s about to lose her seat on the Davidson County Election Commission, Republican Patricia Heim is on track for another term on the board of the Tennessee Registry of Election Finance. Heim, a member of that board since 2007, has been appointed for another term by Gov. Bill Haslam. This term would end Dec. [...]