When the state Republican Party kicked seven candidates for the Senate race and one gubernatorial hopeful off the 2018 GOP ballot over the weekend, I actually laughed out loud. The reason given by the grand pooh-bah was those who were wiped away failed “to meet the bona fide standards” as set by the party bylaws.
The decision clears the starting gate for Marsha Blackburn to win the primary in hopes of Bobby Corker’s Senate seat but let the record show no Tennessee politician in the past four years has done more to shelter the seedy “dirty lick” than the repugnant Blackburn. She has accepted thousands of dollars from men who would cheat and maim Tennessee Walking Horses and my hope is the Democrats will dig deep enough and hard enough so that not only she will be beat, she will become so shamed she’ll move to a foreign country.
Marsha is the darling who made certain not one Tennessee Republican in either the House or the Senate co-sponsored an upgrade of the Horse Protection Act. Over half of Congress and half of the Senate did, but in the eyes of many sound horse people Blackburn could easily ‘ride her broom’ to the nation’s capital if she so wished.
The Dirty Lickers, so named because of a heinous and quite unnatural gait that makes those who sore animals with caustic chemicals and devices go a-quiver, operates under the roof of the National Walking Horse Celebration. As the cruel and sadistic practice has all but ruined the shoddy side of the Walking Horse industry, the city of Shelbyville has decayed. Horse operations and other farms are in abundance with local realtors and prices continue to fall.
Marsha Blackburn is most responsible and the Tennessee Republicans have chosen her as the state’s Senatorial candidate! My gracious lands, talk about hypocrisy! Lamar Alexander has apparently teamed with Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell to stymie the PAST in the Senate, which is why the state’s two-time Democratic Governor, Phil Bredesen, is the better candidate in Tennessee.
I have a number of friends on the Executive Committee of the GOP, namely Bobby Wood and Oscar Brock, both of whom I had appreciated for years. But give me two weeks with my contacts and I can come up with a raft of Executive Committee members who ain’t fit to sit with in a church.
I have studied Marsha Blackburn ever since I discovered how satanic the Dirty Lick was and the fact Blackburn is their Madonna. They gave her a party one night where $30,000 in dirty money was passed and a close study of her contributors – available to the public – shows that almost half are associated with the Dirty Lick.
It is so bad there would be cause for an ethics claim but Alexander’s state finance chairman is Steven B. Smith, who has headed various committees for the evil side of the Walking Horse industry. Fear not, Lamar has Steven B. covered. It’s a tangled as the worst type of cancer, as the last several years have revealed the National Celebration is an out-and-out sham. This year’s Grand Champion’s trainer was suspended the same night he yelped, “I just want to thank Jesus” for such a splendid ride.
The whole scenario is so preposterous you can’t make it up and, after the state Republican Party finds seven candidates for Senator and one for Governor, they force upon us the very woman who has assured there has not been one felony arrest since the law was passed three years ago. The explanation is no trainers sore any longer, which is an out-and-out lie.
Diane Black, another who zealously protects the “Dirty Lick” after repeated campaign contributions, also has skeletons in her closet. Black touts she was once a compassionate nurse. She also was honored by the Big Lick on the same night blood was observed running down the foreleg of an obviously sored horse USDA examiners had just disqualified.
Black, Chuck Fleishmann, Scott DesJarlais – every Tennessee Republican - knows exactly what is going on and there is not one in the bunch who has the morals or courage to stand and stop it. Diane Black ain’t fit to be in politics and Blackburn ….. well, maybe she’ll move to Haiti where it is believed the entire government is on the take. Reckon she’d fit in just fine?
The state Republican Party is as shameful a body to ever represent Tennessee. Who among us wants to vote for four more years of disgusting representation and vile behavior? The Republican Party of Tennessee, that’s who.
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