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How ’bout those Yankees?

Obviously Hoots has been a hotbed of what I like to call political “doings” the past couple of days. Since Tuesday night, I probably have talked to dozens of people talking about the domino effect of Tanner giving his one year notice. Most folks around here know Tanner so they were extremely interested in what our local blue dog was up to and the aftermath of his announcement.

I believe we are still looking at a domino effect.

Roy is out of the governor’s race which doesn’t surprise me as this action of seeking C8 has been talked about for awhile in connection with him and there are a plethora of people also making considerations which I’m sure you’ve heard about over at the Daily Kleinheider. I was watching the President speak about Afghanistan with a member of the National Guard and my friend Maxey when the news broke.

I won’t lie. We were floored as much by the timing as anything.

Other than a brief interlude when SkyhawkGirl played the accordion to cheer us up at lunch yesterday (which was awesome and much needed as I had the holiday blues the past week. Nothing will cheer you up quicker than seeing your buddy that you’ve known since high school play a polka for you) the conversation around Hoots continued all day. Here in Weakley County, we take our politics pretty seriously. It might be because we know the players and many of us are just political junkies.

I do know that this was pretty much the only conversation here which moved fast and furious.

There were questions such as “Why is John doing this?” Another one was “Why did Roy announce this so fast?” (Yes we call people by their first names here.) Both are good questions which I have no real answer to. Other questions that came to light were “What about I-69?” or “Will the next year give John time to get some things done he was working for in our area?” There was also quite a bit mentioned about the port authority project.

But the main thing was that we are looking at change here in northwest Tennessee and everyone knows it no matter what side of the political aisle they might sit on. Think about it, only three people have held that seat in half of a century. Fats Everett took the seat in 1958 after Jere Cooper died. Then Ed Jones had it from 1968 up until his retirement in 1988 when Tanner when into the office.

For 51 years, there have only been three men in that seat.

So change it will be. I’m interested to see what will happen next.