TAKING THE HILL…

DECISION TIME

It is decision time in Tennessee and America - election day is just a few days off now, and the barrage of ads and campaign rallies and news stories will soon give way to the quiet of the voting booths where you and your neighbors, fellow Tennesseans and fellow Americans will make a decision that will affect the future of this great state and our great country.

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NASHVILLE, TN – The Tennessee Democratic Party has been caught again engaging in dirty campaign tactics, this time running a false and slanderous ad against Republican state House candidate Chad Faulkner.

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Completion of biodiesel plant - and hiring of workers - delayed as Ruppe campaigns instead of doing her job

NASHVILLE, TN - It’s becoming clearer why Becky Ruppe, the Democrat candidate for the 12th district state Senate seat, has compiled such a poor record of economic growth while serving as the Morgan County Executive. She’s all talk, no action.

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Hate, not Politics, Powers Neo-Nazi Skinheads, Demonstrators Who Hung Palin in Effigy

NASHVILLE, TN - The Tennessee Republican Party expresses its shock and outrage today at the alleged plot by two neo-Nazi skinheads in Tennessee to go on a shooting spree targeting African-American high school students before attempting to kill presidential candidate Barack Obama.

“Hate is not a political party, policy statement, agenda or ideology - it is a pure evil that no place in civil society,” said Robin Smith, Chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party. “Whether it is neo-Nazi skinheads plotting a racist shooting spree targeting Sen. Obama, or West Hollywood liberals hanging Gov. Sarah Palin in effigy and calling it ‘art,’ or unknown anarchists tossing bricks through the windows of a county Republican headquarters in Murfreesboro, Americans of all political views should be outraged.

“The American system provides for Americans to express their political passions on the campaign trail and at the ballot box, Violence, intimidation and threats poison the political process.”

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