Paul Stanley: the Roger Maris of Tennessee Politics

Our old buddy Paul Stanley
Even in desperate times, the state government can afford to produce yet another Tennessee Blue Book. To legislators, they are a high priority item. You can chop children's services but you can't go to a school or a nursing home in your district without an armload of blue books, right?

The new edition is out and guess what? It's just like the last one except it's the first one brought to you by your new secretary of state Tre Hargett. His name is emblazoned on the cover and the spine, just in case anyone was wondering who's responsible for this fabulous book.

On page 28, Pith noticed one other change. Paul Stanley is now the Roger Maris of Tennessee politics. There's an asterisk by his name.

* Paul Stanley resigned from the Senate effective August 10, 2009.

That's it. There's no explanation, although there's a big glob of white space below the asterisk. Schoolchildren across the state will scratch their heads in puzzlement over this for centuries to come. Why did Paul Stanley resign? they will ask. There was room in Stanley's bio graf to state right at the beginning that he's an evangelical Christian. So that's good to know.

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