News about {Tennessee Democratic Party}

TN Democratic Party keeps Forrester as leader

01/09/11 On the heels of historic losses in the November elections, the Tennessee Democratic Party decided to stay the course on Saturday by electing Chip Forrester to another term as its chairman.

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Forrester re-elected chairman of Tenn. Democrats

01/08/11 Chip Forrester was re-elected as chairman of the Tennessee Democratic Party after a drubbing by Republicans in the November elections.

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Week in review: VP Biden sees flood damage

07/18/10 Vice President Joe Biden saw firsthand the damage wrought by the May floods when he toured the Grand Ole Opry House on Friday afternoon. Biden was in town to deliver the keynote address for a Tennessee Democratic Party fund-raiser. The Opry House, which took on 46 inches of water in the floods, is to reopen on Oct. 1.

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Biden defends fiscal policy in rallying Democrats

07/17/10 Vice President Joe Biden rallied Democrats with a defense of the party's economic and foreign policies in a speech Friday night at the Tennessee Democratic Party's annual Jackson Day dinner.

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Around the Region: Gore to speak at Jackson Day

07/15/10 Former Vice President Al Gore has been added to the speakers list for Friday night's Jackson Day fundraiser in Nashville for the Tennessee Democratic Party.

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Former state Democratic Party leader to campaign Tuesday for Ben Leming

04/12/10 Bob Tuke, Marine veteran, former chairman of the Tennessee Democratic Party, and 2008 candidate for U.S. Senate, will campaign for Ben Leming at 12:45 p.m. Tuesday by City Cafe, a news release states.

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TN Dem party chairman stakes $25K bonus on Democrats' win

01/28/10 Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Chip Forrester said Wednesday that $25,000 bonuses for him and his top aide show they have "some skin in the game" in this fall's elections.

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Cobb loses out on campaign "buckets of cash"

09/01/09 NASHVILLE -- Buckets of cash collected for Ty Cobb's campaign for vacated House District 62 during a major fundraising dinner put the Tennessee Democratic Party on the wrong side of state campaign...

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Clinton, Gore urge health bill passage at TN event

08/29/09 NASHVILLE (AP) - Former President Bill Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore showed little of what has been a sometimes frosty relationship in speeches to the Tennessee Democratic Party's annual fundraiser Saturday night.

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Love-Hate Mail

08/26/09 Kovach responds Last week, I read one of your reports about me in the Nashville Scene (" Dispatches from the Health Care Battlefield ," Aug. 20). It copied a Tennessee Democratic Party press release that said I was a "child abuser." That is not true.

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