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July 07, 2006
Cotton Patch Whisper: Rumors about future State House backroom deals
One of several great anonymous correspondents to TennesseeTicket.com has passed along some potentially juicy information about how things might go down if the Republicans are successful in their bid to take control of the Tennessee House of Representatives.
There's no sense in even trying to validate something that is constructed entirely of speculation and hearsay, so it's posted here simply for its entertainment value. (However, if it were to come true, you can bet I'd be strutting the "you heard it here first" windbaggedness, but only, again, for fun.)
Apparently, Rep. Steve McDaniel (R-Parkers Crossroads) has "some of his supporters" talking about what the handful of GOP Representatives who support Jimmy Naifeh for Speaker might try to do if the Republicans win a majority. According to my source, the talk is that they would approach Naifeh with a deal, like so: share the Speakership, and we'll support you, as long as we get some peachy committee chairmanships. I gather that McDaniel would be the Co-Speaker in such a scenario -- and that it would likely be his last term in office for anything above assistant dogcatcher, as the saying goes, since the right wing would come after him with a vengeance in the 2008 primary.
I hope to be so wrong about posting this that I am scurrilously chastised, because that kind of thing just ain't right, I don't care what party you're for. But I thought it made for some interesting speculation, and the imagined fireworks that would result are better than anything seen earlier this week.
Incidentally, there is also talk of deals being worked up in the opposite direction (again, in the event of a GOP win), in which the name Frank Buck (D-Dowellton) was mentioned.
Some days I just hate political parties.
State House Elections | By joe lance | 03:54 PM