Bredesen creates 600 new jobs!!

[FreedomAngel82]

Link: http://www.tennessee.gov/governor/viewArticleContent.do?id=546

Governor Phil Bredesen today joined Commissioner of Economic and Community Development Matt Kisber to announce the arrival of 600 new jobs to Tennessee as Caremark Rx, the pharmaceutical services company that first moved to Nashville in May 2003, expand its base with a new call center.

Caremark’s arrival is the latest success of Bredesen’s Jobs Cabinet, which he established in March 2003 to attract new industry to Tennessee. “The idea behind the Jobs Cabinet was – and is - to leverage all of the collective muscle the State of Tennessee could bring to bear in driving job growth,” Bredesen said. “The results have been encouraging, with more than 32-thousand jobs created in Tennessee last year. But we still have more to do.”

[politicasista]

1. He rocks!

Plain and simple. :)

[FreedomAngel82]

2. Hell yes

:toast: I hope he wins again. This is a great accomplishment! He should be proud! I just think he's great! :loveya:

[Erika]

3. What are the wage levels and benefits ?

How many jobs did Tennessee lose last year?

[FreedomAngel82]

4. Check out the state site

Governor site- http://www.tennessee.gov/governor/Welcome.do

State site- http://www.tennessee.gov

[AnnitaR]

5. Now if he weren't cutting over 100,000 people's healthcare...

he'd really be doing great!

I understand the mess that the former Puke Governor left him no choice but it's really going to hurt some people here.

My mom just got her letter today saying that she could be cut from TennCare. She has to fill out a shit load of papers and send them back. Then she waits to see if she's going to lose her coverage. She's 70 years old and is retired. She had a stroke in 2002 and suffers from some short term memory loss. She also just found out she has diabetes. If she loses her TennCare coverage it's going to be horrible.

[FreedomAngel82]

6. I hate it too

It's hard and I also hate it. I don't have health care now since I'm not in school full time and don't have a job so it does suck. *sigh* I just hope with these new jobs some people can get health care. I hope he gets re-elected though so he can have a chance to clean even more things up. Have you heard anything else dealing with health care and any plans he has going on?

[Jackson4Gore]

7. Yea, tough decesion

My mother and father were both on Tenn Care, so it is personal for me. In my mother's case, she is disabled and unable to work because of MS. She has to take numerous medications and takes injections due to her illness. So it is going to be REALLY hard. Not to mention, my father, who is retired from TVA, also is injured, so if he needs further sugery or something, it is all out of pocket.

I am on the fence about the way Bredesen has handled this. I actually worked with Bredesen last year when he campaigned with us when I was the campaign manager for a State Rep. candidate, and I know him to be a good man. However, this is a very harsh decesion. In one sense, he had to do something. On the other, I wouldn't completley do away with it. Too many people rely on this system to get by. Without it, I fear many will die and our whole healthcare system will get worse due to uninsured people going to the hospitial and other costs. We will see; we will see.

[Erika]

8. Yes, we will see

How many of the elderly, and others, will choose to die in their beds knowing they have no health coverage? Bush's world. The demise of the Christian care of the needy. But I bet those rich people love their tax cuts.

[FreedomAngel82]

9. Cool picture with you and Bredesen

I'm glad my dad still is at TVA so he and my mom can have health insurance. I can always get it with my school so that helps. I don't go to the doctor or anything much and I get medicine I take for thyroids through the mail which is a lot cheaper and my dad makes a pretty good amount of money for doctor visits. I wish he could do a tax raise on the top 1% at least. That might help, but I know he's trying to keep campaign promises and find other ways to have a balance budget. I hope he's re-elected again because I think he has a lot of work still left to do. I've met some republicans who like him and he was two-time mayor of Nashville which is a good thing since the east side is pretty red in political terms. It seems to me with Medicaid he's going to try to update the program and do some things different since it's old and do away on the program mediciations that don't really help people. It should be interesting to see how it works. I'm glad for this though so hopefully some people can get jobs. Hopefully in the next couple of months he can create a better health care situation.

[Jackson4Gore]

10. I trust Bredesen

I hope he does have a plan behind all of this. His polls have sunk big time in the past few months, which has me concerned.



The GOP has even sent out the following memo:

http://www.teamgop.org/newsletter-02-25-05.htm

Bredesen down in polls from last week’s Commercial Appeal and BIG SURPRISE the media is ignoring it.

For all of the naysayers…this proves what many believed and what TeamGOP has been writing. Phil Bredesen’s approval ratings dropped 8 points in three weeks. Does anyone really believe it won’t continue to drop?

In West Tennessee Phil Bredesen’s approval rating is 49%. Phil Bredesen’s lowest rating, 33 percent, is among West Tennesseans earning under $50,000.

Phil Bredesen is no iron man, he has gotten good press and no one has stood up to him, things have changed. It is time Republicans started acting like we live in a red state, we can win.

Also, a new poll shows that Republicans approve of Bredesen more than Democrats, which is not good:

http://www.adamgroves.net/blog/blogarchives/2005/05/bredesen_pollin.html

A new Survey USA poll indicates that Governor Phil Bredesen has a higher approval rating among Republicans than Democrats. The poll of 500 adults indicates that Bredesen's approval rating among Republicans is 61% whereas his approval among his fellow Democrats is 49%, only slightly above those who consider themselves independent at 45%. Predictably, Bredesen's unfavorability is more extant among Democrats, doubtlessly over cutting the TennCare rolls and dropping the fight for a state income tax.

[FreedomAngel82]

11. He still has a higher raiting then Bush and

other republican governors. The governor of Ohio has a raiting of 13% I saw! :crazy: I think if he comes out successfuly with whatever plan he has his raiting will be higher. I saw reported in a blog that had an article from a Jacksonville, Florida paper and his raiting then was 70% over all (this was in January of this year). I think he'll overcome this. This is just a tough spot for him. Hopefully he'll be re-elected again. Do you know if anybody is running against him next year? :\