Crom’s Crommentary Discusses Keeping Watch on Governor and State Legislative Races

 

Live from Music Row Wednesday morning on The Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy – broadcast on Nashville’s Talk Radio 98.3 and 1510 WLAC weekdays from 5:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. – host Leahy welcomed the original all-star panelist Crom Carmichael to the studio for another edition of Crom’s Crommentary.

CARMICHAEL CONTINUED:

Well, Michael, what’s coming up is interesting. In fact, it dovetails very nicely into what you just brought up. And that is state governments. When Republicans are in charge of state governments, things are generally run quite well, especially at the legislative level.

Now, occasionally you’ll get a Republican governor like Kemp in Georgia, who had a chance to stand up to the mob and chose not to. DeWine in Ohio will go wobbly on a fairly regular basis. But at the legislative level, when Republicans have majorities at state levels, they do a marvelous job.

Tennessee, to me, it’s at the top of the class in terms of the way that our state legislature puts the people first. And a great example is that when the local school boards turned down charter schools regularly because they had the power to do so, the state legislature just said, okay, well, we want black and Hispanic children to get an opportunity of quality education.

Charter schools are an alternative. They create competition. And so we’re going to set up a way at the state level for charter schools that are worthy and that get turned down at the local level for them to get approved. And that’s just one of many examples here in Tennessee.

But what’s interesting is this in 2022, and I went and looked at this, there are 36 governor’s races out of 50 that are in play. When I say in play, I mean, that are on the ballot. And 20 of those are Republicans. Sixteen of those states are Democrats.

And if you look at Virginia as a bellwether in terms of Biden winning the state by 10 percent and then the Republicans won the governor’s race there. In New Jersey, I think that Biden won New Jersey by 16 percent. And the Republican almost won New Jersey.

So if you look across the state at the 16 Democrat races, there are a bunch of them. By the way, among those 16 are Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Georgia. Those are the states where we believe that those are the states where the Zuckerberg boxes, where you and I believe that those tilted the election unfairly.

But we don’t have the final evidence because nobody wants to do a thorough investigation. But those states, every one of them. Right now, Wisconsin has a Democrat governor, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Georgia have Republican governors.

But Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania are going to have very strong challenges running as Republicans. And so the 2022 elections we’ve always talked about as the congressional races are also going to be governor and state legislative races. That will be really interesting to watch.

– – –

Tune in weekdays from 5:00 – 8:00 a.m. to the Tennessee Star Report with Michael Patrick Leahy on Talk Radio 98.3 FM WLAC 1510. Listen online at iHeart Radio.
Photo “Vote Here” by Tony Webster CC BY 2.0.