AWESOME! The County Chairmen, their officers, and SEC Members have been great to work with over the last several months in fielding great candidates, holding special conventions for county vacancies, and hosting fabulous Lincoln Day and Reagan Day Dinners all the while.

Be sure to check the TRP calendar (which has been reformatted for ease of use) to see the numerous grassroots events and opportunities to meet the great leadership and candidates that keep our Party strong. Again, thank you for all you do!

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NASHVILLE, TN - The Tennessee Republican Party rejects the label “opportunist” used by Democrat National Committee Chairman Howard Dean in attacking John McCain.

In a release issued out of Washington, D.C., the DNC again shows Americans that Democrats cannot and should not be trusted with our nation’s security and foreign policy decisions.

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NASHVILLE, TN – One day after Republican legislators held an informational session to discuss the proposed Taxpayer Transparency in Government Act (which would create a website where Tennesseans could track state government’s revenues and spending in detail), the Bredesen administration is being sued for failing to comply with open records requests that have been pending for more than nine months.

Today, the Tennessee Center for Policy Research filed a petition in Davidson County Chancery Court against Tennessee Department of Finance & Administration Public Information Officer Lola Potter and other state officials for failing to comply with the Tennessee Open Records Act. The petition asks the court to force the release of the documents that the think tank requested more than nine months ago.

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NASHVILLE, TN - The Tennessee Republican Party has issued the following statements regarding the Taxpayer Transparency in Government Act introduced today by statehouse Republicans.

“We fully support efforts to open up government to more public scrutiny, and nothing in government needs more scrutiny than how the government spends the taxpayers’ dollars.” - Bill Hobbs, Communications Director, Tennessee Republican Party.

“The Taxpayer Transparency in Government Act gives people the tools to help identify waste and questionable spending priorities and learn who is getting preferential treatment in the tax code. We believe that information will lead Tennesseans to become more involved in tax and spending policy and steer the state away from the current liberal cycle of explosive spending growth, tax increases, revenue shortfalls and budget cuts, and toward a more sustainable, conservative, fiscal path.” - Bill Hobbs, Communications Director, Tennessee Republican Party.

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