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Underdog (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Tuesdays with Tuke September 30, 2008 Bungling the Bailout After the Congress, Administration officials, and advisers worked over the weekend to come up with the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, a compromise that promised to stabilize global credit and stock markets, the House failed to pass the measure when 2/3 of the Republican Congressmen abandoned their leaders and voted against it....
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Nashville for the 21st Century (Free subscription) | 09/26/2008
Senate Candidate Bob Tuke is chastising Sen. Lamar Alexander for attempting to ram through the President's proposal, and urges him to chastise his fellow Republicans for refusing to negotiate on the plan: "I urge my opponent, Senator Lamar Alexander, to encourage his fellow Republicans to sit down at the negotiating table now, because we cannot rush a buyout plan after going on political hiatus....
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Underdog (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
Tuesdays with Tuke Of Blunders and Bailouts.... What do you call it when hundreds of financial executives become enormously wealthy from stock options, bonuses and commissions generated from financial transactions so fundamentally unsound that their very existence has threatened to bring down the economy of the United States? You call it a Bush-McCain-Alexander financial policy blunder. What...
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Nashville for the 21st Century (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
Bob Tuke urges caution in approaching the Wall Street bailout necessitated by the "Bush-McCain-Alexander financial policy blunder": Congress should authorize careful investments by the United States Treasury in troubled mortgage assets (including some of the institutions that hold them) to protect essential credit markets and to ensure the stability of the global financial structure. This must...
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Underdog (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
... in to the interests of big money and their cronies. Together, let's Take the Hill. Semper Fi, Bob Tuke
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Underdog (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Tuesdays with Tuke ~September 9, 2008 Healthcare for the 21st Century The health of a nation is measured largely by the health of its people. That in turn ultimately is measured by the health care a nation makes available to its citizens. Sad to say, the Bush administration, enabled by Republican Senators led by Lamar Alexander, has miserably failed in this measure. Of all industrialized western...
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Nashville for the 21st Century (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Democratic Senate Candidate Bob Tuke released his health care plan today which relies on a national health insurance network, along with other various programs to improve the quality of health care: [W]e have developed a Healthcare Plan for the 21 st Century, with the aid and advice of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals. The Plan addresses the most significant failings of our...
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Underdog (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
As we planned our general election campaign for the U.S. Senate, it struck us that we should devote some of our time and resources to the soldiers, Marines, sailors, airmen and women who are serving our nation in Iraq and Afghanistan. So Operation Bob's Boxes was born. Unlike George W. Bush and his chicken hawk cronies, such as Lamar Alexander, I believe that we should do more than 'go shopping' to...
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Nashville for the 21st Century (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
Democratic Senate Candidate Bob Tuke has refocused a website dedicated to sending care packages to troops for the soon-to-be victims of Hurricane Gustav. I started Operation Bob's Boxes (www.BobsBoxes.org) as a care package drive for Tennessee troops serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the coming days, we will be helping evacuees in Tennessee and assisting in recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast...
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Underdog (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
Tuesdays with Tuke August 26, 2008 A Salute to Women in Government Today is National Women's Equality Day, the anniversary of the ratification of the Nineteenth Constitutional Amendment giving women the right to vote. That ratification was completed right here in Tennessee on August 26, 1920. Now, 88 years later, we await with eager anticipation the speech of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton this...
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Nashville for the 21st Century (Free subscription) | 09/30/2008
Democratic Senate candidate Bob Tuke comes out with a forceful rebuke of Treasury Secretary Paulson and calls for him to be replaced 3 months before Bush leaves office. Then why did [the financial rescue bill] fail? It failed because Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson had "poisoned the well" when he first proposed the bailout in a 3-page memo calling for his unfettered authority to spend $700...
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TennesseeTicket.com (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
... from Denver. Tennessee's Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, former state party chair Bob Tuke , took the podium and delivered his stump speech. While his message did not skimp on scathing rebukes of Senator Lamar Alexander's voting record, Tuke had only kind words for his friend, Senator Bob Corker. Berke then took the stage in front of a standing, cheering crowd, and told...
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TennesseeTicket.com (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
... . It sounds like the Red Cross is asking more for funds than for supplies. U.S Senate candidate Bob Tuke is turning his military care package service into a storm refugee relief operation . Donors can bring goods to the Hamilton County Democratic Party headquarters on Patten Pkwy at 4pm today.
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American Spectator (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
... Lincoln Davis of Tennessee and Heath Shuler of North Carolina, both pro-life Democrats, and Bob Tuke, a Democratic Senate candidate from Tennessee who is pro-choice but supports the to lower the number of abortions committed in the United States.But first up were speakers who aimed to remind this pro-life audience why they were Democrats. Alexia Kelley of Catholics in Alliance for the Common...
