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Former Gov. Ned McWherter and much of the state's Democratic establishment have rallied to Clinton's side and she has striven to shore up her early lead, attending events in Memphis and Nashville on the weekend she lost South Carolina to Barack Obama. Clinton's appearances in Tennessee were tailored to African-American audiences; in Nashville she spoke at historically black Tennessee State University and in Memphis at an African American Church. Meanwhile, former President Bill Clinton spoke at Fisk University, a historically black private institution...
TennCare, however, is not the product of a long, thoughtful, democratic process. Stealth attack is more like it. In 1993 then Governor Ned McWherter, alarmed that Medicaid had ballooned from 13.4% of the state's budget in 1987 to more than 26%, presented lawmakers with a managed-care program contained in an innocent-looking 1 1/2-page bill. Before the powerful lobbyists for doctors, insurance companies and the elderly knew what had hit them, the bill passed, with virtually no debate...
...Weld is brazen, then Weicker and Tennessee's Ned McWherter, who is also trying to institute a state income tax, may be courting political folly. The only time a state income tax was enacted in Connecticut, in 1971, it provoked such an outcry that it was repealed within six weeks. Tennesseans dislike the tax so much that the state courts once declared it unconstitutional. Both Governors hope to soften the blow of the new levies by lowering sales taxes. McWherter, a Democrat re-elected last fall, has also made the plan more palatable by promising to channel the new revenue...
Student government president Darrell McWherter said yesterday, "It's hard to believe this could happen--even harder to believe it could happen in an ivory tower. It would be even worse if it was a joke. No one who is Black on this campus was laughing last night...
...Carver of Peoria, ILL, Richard Hatcher of Gary, Ind., Maynard Jackson of Atlanta, Ed Koch of New York, Henry Maier of Milwaukee, Coleman Young of Detroit; State Senator Polly Baca-Barragan of Colorado; State Representative Philip Davitt of Iowa; State Speakers Stanley Fink of New York and Ned R. McWherter of Tennessee...