Topic: Jason Mumpower

Tennessee Republicans Demanding Loyalty Oaths

Nashville Scene - 639 days ago
Tennessee Republicans are trying to prevent history from repeating itself. In 2009, Democrats rose up in a collective sneak attack and elected GOP Rep. Kent Williams as the speaker of the House, denying the job to Republican leader Jason Mumpower. This time, ...

Mumpower's Irreplaceable But Casada Wants to Try

Nashville Scene - 693 days ago
click to enlarge Dynamic duo: House Republican Caucus chairman Glen Casada is the most likely successor to Jason Mumpower. Whoever the caucus wants to be majority leader, that's who I'm for.. Q: Will it be you?.

Mumpower Denies Public Humiliations Led to His Decision: 'That's Old News'

Nashville Scene - 694 days ago
In the days after he lost the speakership, Mumpower grew a little goatee as a coping mechanism. His place secure in the textbooks as the hapless victim of the worst FU in modern Tennessee political history, House Republican leader Jason Mumpower announced ...

What Will We Do? Missing the Legislature So Terribly Much Already

Nashville Scene - 973 days ago
click to enlarge The legislature went home and that's made Pith in the Wind all misty eyed with memories this morning. There was Susan Lynn's panic attack, Brian Kelsey's extortion attempt, the hysterical shrieking of Robin Smith, the shocking double castration of ...