AAPD Disability Vote Project Leader & EAC Advisory Board Member to Address Tennessee Photo ID to Vote Law

Today, Tuesday, January 31, at 2:30 pm CT at Legislative Plaza Room 31 (301 6th Avenue North, Nashville, TN), Jim Dickson, Vice President of Organizing and Civic Engagement for the American Association of People with Disabilities and the Disability Vote Project, and member of the Board of Advisors for the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, will [...]

Redistricting in TN: As Transparent as a Smoked Filled Room

Last week we watched the Ad Hoc Committee on redistricting present the state house majority’s map proposal. This week we watched them do the same during the House State and Local Government Committee. Through it all something was gnawing at us and that little voice was telling us that something was not quite right. The [...]

Public Justice and North Carolina Legal Team Hold Payday Lenders Accountable

From a Public Justice Media Release: It took six years and countless briefs, motions, court dates and arguments. But, most of all, it took a determined team of public interest advocates to finally win justice for the tens of thousands of North Carolinians who turned to large payday lending companies in a time of desperation, [...]

Suggested Reading: The Travails of Ms. Warren

Joe Nocera tells the story of the politicization of Elizabeth Warren and the emergence of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: It’s finally live. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, I mean. After 10 months of preparation — hiring staff, creating a management structure, laying out an initial agenda — the bureau officially hit the starting gate [...]

The ALEC – Tennessee Connection

ALEC, or the American Legislative Exchange Council, a group made up of representatives of large corporations and primarily conservative state legislators, works this way: ALEC members – large corporations with special interests – give them millions of dollars. ALEC holds conferences for state legislators State legislators attend these conferences and take home “cookie-cutter” legislation written [...]

Control Spending with Care

Tennessee Citizen Action is a member of The Coalition to Control Spending with Care, a group of 30 Tennessee membership and advocacy organizations that have voluntarily come together to encourage and support sensible fiscal policy at all levels in the U.S. Today the coalition released a joint statement on the potential serious harm that will [...]

Gail Kerr Column Summarizes Squirrely Priorities of State Legislature

In today’s Tennessean: “There’s a central theme in this legislature, and it is enough to drive a person bonkers. They ran for office vowing to keep government off your backs and not to stick its nose where it doesn’t belong. But example after example keeps popping up of them doing just the opposite. Local school [...]

Miscarriage of Justice Act Passes Out of House Judiciary

On Tuesday, 4/19/11, HB2008 passed out of the TN House Judiciary Committee. Below you can watch the discussion, including attempts to add amendments that make the bill more fair to hardworking Tennesseans (who are not known to file many lawsuits and who have been protected by the TN Consumer Protection Act since 1977). One amendment [...]

Part 2: Rep. Mike Stewart Also Questions the Justice in Caps on Damages Discussion

Watch a clip from the discussion of HB2008 (Governor Bill Haslam’s caps on damages bill)  in last week’s House Judiciary Committee. In the clip, Rep. Mike Stewart questions Rep. Dennis Vance about an amendment which would allow certain felons to be covered under the caps. The discussion continues today in both the House and Senate [...]

Rep. Mike Stewart Questions the Numbers in Caps on Damages Discussion

Watch a clip from the discussion of HB2008 in last week’s House Judiciary Committee. In the clip, Rep. Mike Stewart questions some of the numbers Mississippi State Senator Charlie Ross cited in his testimony about the results of his states’ caps on damages legislation. The discussion continues today in both the House and Senate Judiciary [...]

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