Inquiring Minds Want To Know
This has been an eventful week in Tennessee and in Hoots.
No one is shocked that the House and Senate overrode the governor’s veto on guns in restaurants/bars, but signs are being thrown up around here quicker than you can say Faster Pussycat, Kill, Kill.
William Howard Hobbs is out as communication director of the TNGOP, which quite frankly surprises me. There are many times that I would scratch my head, roll my eyes, shake my fist to the sky and sigh deeply with some of his antics, but no one can say that the man wasn’t stealth with his pressers. Jackson Baker, however, was not surprised at all.
Steve Ross is on top of what’s happening in Memphis. A quick recap has to do with the Memphis Sexual Assault Resource Center and that two rape victims were turned away from the center because they didn’t have the staff to help them. Ross is following the press conferences and breaking down the funding trail. It’s sad actually because MSARC used to be the model for the south in victim’s assistance. Now it appears that politics may be standing in the way to help victims.
GoldnI made this point earlier this week regarding bloggers in Nashville. I think it needs to be revisited.
The importance of that information cannot be emphasized enough. Bloggers want to help! Bloggers want to be a part of the conversation. But we can’t do that if we have no idea what’s going on, and that’s where we need the help of those in the legislature who can feed us that information. You can’t be angry at us for not saying the “right” things if all we’re hearing is the “wrong” things. If I could have said one more thing to Mike Turner, to paraphrase Jerry Maguire–”help us help you.”
