Tennessee Conservative
Special Interest Groups Spend Approximately $60 Million A Year In An Effort To Curry Favor With Tennessee Legislators. That’s Almost A Third Of A Billion Dollars Over The Past Five Years. And All Of This Is Absolutely Legal.
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A University Of Tennessee Insider Has Contacted The Tennessee Conservative With Concerns About The Recently Renovated IT (Information Technology) Center Located In The Lupton Library At The UTC Campus Receiving Approval From UT President Randy Boyd To Be Converted Into A Pride Center.
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Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee Recently Signed Into Law A Bill That Ends Allowing Donations To Be Accepted For Use In Elections.
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For Some Special Interests, A Fading Coronavirus Pandemic Poses A Problem, But Not Always An Insurmountable One. The Changes Made Due To The Pandemic Have Long Been On The Policy Wish Lists Of Advocates, They Evoke Words Widely Attributed To Winston Churchill: “Never Let A Good Crisis Go To Waste.” Or As A Headline This Week Might Sum Up A New Urgency: “The U.S. Is Edging Toward Normal, Alarming Some Officials.”
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When Biden Told The Senate He Intended To Move Forward On His Pandemic Relief Bill With No Input From Republicans, The Senate Approved His Inflated Budget Bill Without One GOP Vote. Democrats Blocked Republican Amendments To Stop A Federal Tax On Carbon, To Cut Aide To Schools Refusing To Reopen, To Cut Off Stimulus To Prison Inmates, Outlaw Court Packing, Reopen The Keystone Pipeline, And To Block Checks For Illegal Immigrants. And The GOP Was Unable To Cut Back The Outrageous Amount Of Money Gifted To Leftist Special Interests That Was Taken Directly From Private Businesses.
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One Of The Biggest Challenges We Have In Politics & Public Policy Is That People Work On A Narrow Range Of Issues Or Even Just One Issue. Reporters Have Beats, Lawmakers Have Committee Assignments. Subject Matter Experts Usually Work In Just One Discipline. Interest Groups Have, Well, Their, Interests. When The Champions Of A Single Issue Pursue Their Own Interests To The Exclusion Of Everything Else, Specialization Becomes The Enemy Of Good Policy.
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The $2.3 Trillion Omnibus Bill Signed By President Trump On Sunday, Includes $900 Billion For COVID-19 Relief But Is Full Of Wasteful Spending Of Taxpayer Money On Unrelated Programs, Critics Argue.
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