Two-term incumbent Republican Lamar Alexander was re-elected with 65% of the vote in 2008. He will be 74 years old in 2014. Alexander will seek re-election to a third term.
Before election to the Senate in 2002, Alexander was governor of Tennessee, US Secretary of Education, and a two-time presidential candidate. Alexander resigned from his position as chairman of the Senate Republican Conference in 2012, the number three position in the GOP Senate leadership.
The Democrats only candidate right now is Tennessee House Representative Craig Fitzhugh (click here)
He has a great biography. Attorney that has litigated fraud to benefit consumers and is the CEO of the Bank of Ripley. If the Bank of Ripley is doing well, what is preventing Craig from being another Elizabeth Warren?
The thing about Lamer Alexander is that he seeks to end Wind Power subsidies, won't touch Big Oil subsidies and wants to stop surtaxes on medical devices because supposedly will end about 1000 jobs in Tennessee. I don't know where he gets that from because a surcharge won't end the demand for the devices. I mean if a person needs one, what are they going to do look somewhere else?
The entire thing makes no sense to me. But, Alexander has it wrong about wind. It is a rhetorical issue for his election. The Tennessee Valley Authority likes wind power.
Apr 1, 2013
...But utilities, including his home-state Tennessee Valley Authority, (click here) are finding they like wind power more and more.
Alexander, up for re-election in 2014, argues the country needs 100 new nuclear plants to ensure low cost and clean power for the 21st century.
At the same time, he has this year renewed efforts to strip the wind industry of a tax credit, in existence since 1992, for new power it brings online. The credit provides companies 2.2 cents per kilowatt hour, costing the federal government about $1.5 billion annually.
But in fighting wind turbines, which he regards as a blight on the countryside and as large-scale bird killers, Alexander is experiencing some of fictional character Don Quixote’s frustration with windmills.
In fact, the Tennessee senator had to stomach voting for a renewal of the tax credit himself when it was included Jan. 1 in a bill to keep income taxes from increasing on middle-class Americans and avoid the so-called fiscal cliff....
Lamar Alexander offers nothing but right wing rhetoric to his electorate. I like Craig Fitzhugh. I think Craig Fitzhugh is way ahead of protecting the interests of the Tennessee electorate. He is an attorney, has expertise in banking, has been a consumer advocate and would insure all the workers in Tennessee are protected including those the TVA wants to nurture into their energy sector. The Democrats need to get behind him, I think he has a real shot at it.
Before election to the Senate in 2002, Alexander was governor of Tennessee, US Secretary of Education, and a two-time presidential candidate. Alexander resigned from his position as chairman of the Senate Republican Conference in 2012, the number three position in the GOP Senate leadership.
He has a great biography. Attorney that has litigated fraud to benefit consumers and is the CEO of the Bank of Ripley. If the Bank of Ripley is doing well, what is preventing Craig from being another Elizabeth Warren?
The thing about Lamer Alexander is that he seeks to end Wind Power subsidies, won't touch Big Oil subsidies and wants to stop surtaxes on medical devices because supposedly will end about 1000 jobs in Tennessee. I don't know where he gets that from because a surcharge won't end the demand for the devices. I mean if a person needs one, what are they going to do look somewhere else?
The entire thing makes no sense to me. But, Alexander has it wrong about wind. It is a rhetorical issue for his election. The Tennessee Valley Authority likes wind power.
Apr 1, 2013
...But utilities, including his home-state Tennessee Valley Authority, (click here) are finding they like wind power more and more.
Alexander, up for re-election in 2014, argues the country needs 100 new nuclear plants to ensure low cost and clean power for the 21st century.
At the same time, he has this year renewed efforts to strip the wind industry of a tax credit, in existence since 1992, for new power it brings online. The credit provides companies 2.2 cents per kilowatt hour, costing the federal government about $1.5 billion annually.
But in fighting wind turbines, which he regards as a blight on the countryside and as large-scale bird killers, Alexander is experiencing some of fictional character Don Quixote’s frustration with windmills.
In fact, the Tennessee senator had to stomach voting for a renewal of the tax credit himself when it was included Jan. 1 in a bill to keep income taxes from increasing on middle-class Americans and avoid the so-called fiscal cliff....
Lamar Alexander offers nothing but right wing rhetoric to his electorate. I like Craig Fitzhugh. I think Craig Fitzhugh is way ahead of protecting the interests of the Tennessee electorate. He is an attorney, has expertise in banking, has been a consumer advocate and would insure all the workers in Tennessee are protected including those the TVA wants to nurture into their energy sector. The Democrats need to get behind him, I think he has a real shot at it.
