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Why is this? Because Chip and Jennifer Buck Wallace publicly said they could run the party without the governor and the congressionals. In fact, they said the governor and the congressionals don't do anything for TNDP.

Still think that Chip?

And $61,000 raised in one month is nothing to brag about. That means TNDP has raised about $120,000 this year. That's pathetic.

Too true about the checker board analogy. I'm not sure what made Chip think that he would be allowed to freely exist after taking a crap on the heads of senior elected Democrats. (Although prior to the Executive Committee vote, I heard he was telling everyone that all would be forgotten and that the Big/Blue Dogs would have no choice but to embrace him. How'd that work out for you, Chip?)

Meanwhile, word is that Horne wrote a $10k check only after Chip begged and pleaded, on all four of his little cloven hooves, for Horne to cut the TNDP rent at the downtown Freedom Center. Horne, being a wise businessman but a compassionate human being, apparently said he wouldn't cut the rent but that he would subsidize Chip for a month or two with a contribution.

It also would be interesting to know how much money Freeman contributed toward that $61k sum before Chip unceremoniously canned him.

Chip owes the Governor and four of our Democratic Congressmen an apology for the overt disrespect shown to them by him and his volunteers. He also should retract the simply-false accusation that they are somehow to blame for legislative losses last year.

Chip and his supporters must also acknowledge the patently obvious — that Chip Forrester has been the most divisive chairman in the history of the TNDP. At the same time, he should publicly disavow his on-line supporters who have been calling for the "primarying" and defeat of our incumbent Democrats, especially Jim Cooper and Lincoln Davis.

The fact of the matter is that those surrounding Chip have absolutely no record of any success in electing Democrats. And the party can probably do just fine without them. Can anyone honestly say the same about the major donors, the elected officials, the political professionals, the experienced hands who have turned their backs on the TNDP? I don't think so.

If Chip Forrester honestly cared about the TNDP, he would resign on his own. This afternoon.

Sounds like Horne is paying the rent on TNDP's space for a couple of months. Could he be counting on there being a new chairman by then that can actually raise enough money to pay rent?

There you go Tennessee Democrats. Your party has been taken over by the moonbeam, angry left - people like TN4th. They and Chairgimp Chipper have turned your party HQ into a down-home version of Haight-Asbury.

Good luck with those elections next year.