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Town hall crier (Hamilton County edition)

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A few town hall-type sessions and meet-and-greets are in the works this week.

The Chattanooga Tea Party is hosting a Liberty Forum at Abba’s House in Hixson on Saturday, February 25 from 1-4 p.m. Many candidates and elected officials are expected to be there, including headlining presidential candidate Rick Santorum.

On the same day, Hamilton County Commission District 3 candidate Mitzi Yates is holding a town hall meeting at the Hixson IHOP at 3:00 p.m. From the candidate’s website:

I am very interested in hearing from the residents of the district. This will be an informal discussion of the things that impact our lives every day. Come and participate in an open forum where your concerns, needs, ideas, and solutions can be heard.

On Tuesday, the Tennessee Valley Republican Women will host state party chair Chris Devaney, who will go over the process by which the president of the United States is elected. More details here.

And on Thursday, Democratic candidate Bill Taylor, who is running for his party’s nomination to the 3rd District congressional seat, will host a meet-and-greet from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. Here’s the press release info:

Bill Taylor, candidate for Tennessee’s 3rd Congressional District, will meet & greet with community members on Feb. 23, 4 to 7 p.m., at STYLEBar in downtown Chattanooga.

“Rose Riley’s journey in starting her business, STYLEBar, is quintessentially American—and is exactly what those in Washington should be doing everything they can to encourage,” said Taylor. “She opted to train for a vocation and then worked in her chosen field for several years before deciding to open her own business. Since this was in 2008, banks would not lend to her, but she persevered, finding private financing, and now operates a successful salon, providing employment for several others besides herself,” Taylor noted.

“If elected to Congress, one of my key goals is to level the business playing field for entrepreneurs like Rose. We need to get the banks back in the business of lending money to those who can create the jobs Americans need,” he said.

What: Bill Taylor, Democratic Candidate for the 3rd Congressional District, Meet & Greet
When: 4 to 7 p.m., February 23
Where: STYLEBar, 191 Walnut St. (at East Aquarium Way) Chattanooga
For more information: (423) 756-2718

Unity breakfast missing a course

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Republicans filled the Country Place Restaurant with cheers for unity on Saturday, following a bitter primary that pitted many of the local party establishment against their eventual electoral conqueror, Chattanooga attorney Chuck Fleischmann. Several of the losing candidates took to the microphone in support of the winner, but the one he beat by the slimmest margin did not attend.

She had an excuse, though. Robin Smith had sent a letter to party chair Delores Vinson explaining that she had already made plans to help her daughter move into a college dormitory that day before hearing about the event. But a telling difference between Smith and some of the others who legitimately couldn’t make it was that no surrogate spoke on Smith’s behalf. Veteran political journalist Tom Humphrey noted that Smith “didn’t mention winner Chuck Fleischmann in a distributed post-election statement.”

Even with the obvious hole in the party’s fabric, local and state leaders exhibited a sense that the general election is sewn up. And how could they not? Democrat John Wolfe—not to mention any of the independent candidates—faces a steep climb just to make it to Chuck’s starting point, both financially and demographically. Surely the anticipated ease of GOP victory helps to salve the party’s wounds.

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