{"id":236,"date":"2006-12-08T10:14:36","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T14:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=236"},"modified":"2006-12-08T10:14:36","modified_gmt":"2006-12-08T14:14:36","slug":"how-to-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=236","title":{"rendered":"How to… NOT"},"content":{"rendered":"

This morning’s Nashville City Paper features a story entitled “Ramsey to Williams: Don’t be a Patsy<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

The gist is that Ramsey wants Williams’ vote for Majority Leader.\u00c2\u00a0 Has to have it, as there aren’t any Democrats willing to jump ship for Ramsey.\u00c2\u00a0 On the other hand, Williams has voted in the past for Lt. Governor Wilder<\/a> — a Democrat, but one who ran the Senate more fairly than any other.\u00c2\u00a0 Odd as Wilder may be, one does have to appreciate that he organized that body with committee control shared by members of both parties.<\/p>\n

Sen. Ron Ramsey<\/a> probably knows Sen. Mike Williams<\/a> better than I do, having worked with him in the upper house of the State Legislature for several years now.\u00c2\u00a0 But I do know Mike well enough to know that saying stupid things — calling childish names, even — is absolutely not the right way to persuade him to your point of view.<\/p>\n

I fully understand the Senate Republicans’ desire for a Republican speaker; I understand the desire of many (of both parties, or no particular party at all for that matter) to have a Lt. Governor in whom there is a higher level of confidence<\/a> in his, shall we say, mental faculties.\u00c2\u00a0 That said, I also think that a better tactic for electing a Republican speaker might be to back one who is seen as less sharply partisan than Ramsey.\u00c2\u00a0 Not necessarily any different in their views on issues, but one whose tactics are more gentle.<\/p>\n

Mike Williams is not a “liberal” Republican, but he’s definitely his own man, representing his own constituents.\u00c2\u00a0 Threatening him or calling him silly names is very likely to drive him straight to the decision that Ramsey doesn’t want.<\/p>\n

An alternate choice would be nice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This morning’s Nashville City Paper features a story entitled “Ramsey to Williams: Don’t be a Patsy.” The gist is that Ramsey wants Williams’ vote for Majority Leader.\u00c2\u00a0 Has to have it, as there aren’t any Democrats willing to jump ship … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}