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Current Crop of Democrat Officials Can’t Help But Continue the Tennessee Democrat Party’s Tradition of Corruption 

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – June 3, 2016 — With this week’s news, it’s clear Tennessee Democrats cannot escape their tradition of corruption.

The Tennessee Democrat Party has a long history rife with dishonesty and fraud. Elected officials like former Tennessee Governor Ray Blanton, with his bribes for pardons scandal, as well as former State Senator John Ford (D — Memphis), with his conviction after being arrested by the FBI, are proof of the TNDP’s soiled legacy.

These themes of illegal and deceitful behavior continue today.

For example, the Democratic Party is standing behind current State Representative Joe Armstrong (D – Knoxville) who has been indicted for tax evasion, lying to the IRS, and conspiracy to defraud the United States. Additionally, the Shelby County Democratic Party is a hotbed of financial chaos as they investigate the questionable handling of funds by former Chairman Bryan Carson who resigned after thousands of dollars went missing. And just this week in Chattanooga, Mayor Andy Berke, a Democrat who is a former State Senator, has been accused of having an affair with one of his senior advisors. Sadly, Democrats simply cannot rid themselves of their tradition of corruption.

Democrats are attempting to distract from their disastrous performances at the ballot box in recent years and their dismal record in office,” said Tennessee Republican Party Chairman Ryan Haynes. “Regardless of what they say, they can’t run from their tradition of corruption. In fact, with the Armstrong indictment, the Shelby County fiasco, and Berke’s questionable behavior, it appears they’re adding to it. Given that their likely presidential nominee is staring at a possible indictment herself, the Tennessee Democratic Party is proving it is corrupt to the core.”

Background

Rep. Joe Armstrong bartered his vote for profit according to the Knoxville News Sentinel.

 

  • “The indictment against Armstrong alleges he lied to the IRS and shortchanged the government more than $100,000 in income taxes owed.”
  • “Armstrong devised a scheme to profit from the expected increase,” Atchley wrote in the indictment. “It was a further part of the conspiracy that Armstrong would elicit others to invest and finance his scheme to surreptitiously profit from the increase in the Tennessee tax rate.”
  • “Armstrong agreed with his unidentified co-conspirators he would use his position on the House finance committee to push through the tax hike while secretly amassing cash and brokering a deal with Tru Wholesale to buy the tax stamps before the hike was enacted, according to the indictment.”

 

Memphis Commercial Appeal: Shelby Democrats seek criminal investigation of old chair.

 

  • “Members of the Shelby County Democratic Party’s executive committee voted in favor of a resolution to pursue criminal charges with the Shelby County District Attorney or the sheriff’s office against former party chairman Bryan Carson.”
  • The resolution accuses Carson of “unlawful embezzlement of funds in the amount of at least $25,000” during his term as chairman from March 2013 to January 2015.

 

Chattanooga Mayor Berke faces “allegations of affair,” according to the Times Free Press.

  • Berke is dealing with “allegations that he maintained a sexual relationship with a senior adviser, while the county’s district attorney said he might ask for an investigation into a related domestic dispute.”
  • A caller to a local radio show asked Berke “if he would step down if any of the allegations proved true?”

 

Democrat candidate for President, Hillary Clinton, continues to be dogged by legal questions and the FBI probe surrounding her work at the State Department.

  • After months of stonewalling and insisting that she had done nothing illegal or barred by department regulations, the former secretary of state finally took refuge in saying that what she had done was “a mistake” and that in reflection she regretted the choice she had made.
  • Her careless handling of classified info extended to her staff, as well.

 

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Additionally, the Shelby County Democratic Party is a hotbed of financial chaos as they investigate the questionable handling of funds by former Chairman Bryan Carson who resigned after thousands of dollars went missing.

Them be my homeys, they be so cool they can't even educate
their children, so they dropped their charter and told the county
it was up to y'all, but the incorporated towns said it ain't and
would run our own school system, because we have some
understanding bout that sorta thing.
So the state will need to come in to run the Memphis school or
the newly formed Shelby County School system. The losers are
the students depending on a herd of idiots looking to fleece.
 
A large number of so called teachers were caught buying the
qualifying test for employment because they couldn't pass
it.  The entire system from top to bottom is a decaying road
kill. The Memphis Housing Authority had such a run of bad
luck with employee thief it was hard to believe.
 
The Memphis evidence room was the cleanest in the country,
not one item of evidence was to be found. Someone could
do twenty minutes of non stop stand up on the crap that went
on from the early nineties, but just recently a new mayor
was elected, I hope he has the support needed to turn things
around. Maybe throwing education under the bus was the
awaking needed.
 
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jtdavis posted:

Alabama has 2 ex governors that did jail time, 1ex governor who plea bargained to dodge jail, an ex house speaker that might go to jail, a state supreme court judge twice removed for breaking the law. Keep posting about Tennessee to get the taste out of your mouth

What are you going to do to get the taste of s*** out of your mouth?

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That’s right, according to a 2010 Daily Beast analysis compiling data about convictions on charges of public corruption, racketeering, extortion, forgery, counterfeiting, fraud and embezzlement, the Volunteer State is America’s single most corrupt. Similarly, a 2012 Harvard study lists Nashville as one of the nation’s most corrupt capitals.

jtdavis posted:

Best, the truth is I'm not crying, I'm sorta chuckling about one of your guys having to plea bargain and drag up on the governors job to keep out of jail.

I can read you like a lullaby JT, you're whining reminds me when
Trump drop kicked the alcoholic hellery to the curb like the piece
of crap the entire Alinsky gang of thugs belong. Only a wimp azz
liberal would cry a tsunami over nothing. It's nothing, it's over,
the guy spit in the face of the Demos idiots trying to put him in jail.
 
Everyone has gone home except you and pencil neck, where is
the Crash boy anyway..... You can't make this stuff up .......... 
Send in the Clowns
 

 

jtdavis posted:

Best, the truth is I'm not crying, I'm sorta chuckling about one of your guys having to plea bargain and drag up on the governors job to keep out of jail.

I couldn't care less. You don't really care either, but you can't shut up. Demoslops have so little joy in their lives that they tend to go overboard over the smallest things. Bentley will be forgotten in a week or so, but you will still be crying over getting your di*k knocked in the dirt by Trump. Tennessee, the most corrupt state in the union. Jt sez, "but we ain't in jail yet"! The slops claim to fame, "we're corrupt, but we get away with it"! LOL!

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jtdavis posted:

Best, you're good at pulling up old posts, I believe I posted that I hoped Trump would be a good president because the better he does, the better America will do and I am American before I'm a liberal democrat.

I remember you wanted a promise that we would "support" hilliary, and got in a snit when I said there was no way I'd support the witch. You thought the hag had it in the bag. You never dreamed you'd have to eat your words. Yea, you support Trump. That's why you post all your nonsense about him.

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Crash.Override posted:

meanwhile, in the real world, outside the rt. wingnut bubble, republiCONs keep doing the same things over and over and over.. and the 'stupid liberals' have to come in and spend 8 years 'fixing' the things the republiCONs screwed up.

Every time I post a list of oberrydingle's failures and the stupidity
for the last eight years, you cry and whine for weeks. Proves my
point about how uninformed you mindless liberals are, you can't
keep up and you sure as hell will never admit his mistakes which
amount to volume's..

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