January 25, 2007

Ripple Effect

Nashville City Paper had a good story yesterday about just how far-reaching the election of new Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey could be. Not only has Ramsey, the first Republican Senate Speaker and Lt. Governor in about a zillion years, appointed Republicans to chair all the really important senate committees and put Republican majorities on all of them, which will affect what legislation has a chance of passing in the state Senate, he also gets to appoint members to about 50 state boards and commissions.