Yesterday I attended my first meeting of the TN Task Force 45.
If you're not familiar with it, it is a pro Trump Republican group led by Elaine Ervin. It was held at Owen Brennan's and the guest speaker was State Senator Brian Kelsey, with about 28 people in attendance.
Ms. Ervin opened the meeting by emphasizing that their immediate purpose was to get Kelsey re-elected in his distrct, which embraces parts of East Memphis, Collierville and Germantown. She suggested we need to start building at the county level and make sure that Tennessee is in line with President Trump's agenda. That means we do not become a sanctuary state and that we focus on improving the education for Tennesseans.
Senator Kelsey knows Judge Kavanagh personally. Kavanaugh had called Kelsey to work with him in the Bush White House in the office of the White House Counsel. In addition, Kelsey's wife works on Capitol Hill. A native of Kentucky, she has worked in the office of Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell.
"Trump has done a fantastic job with the judiciary," Kelsey said, "particularly with Kavanaugh," for whom he has great praise.
"I think the Democrats are hurting themselves by jumping up and being so extreme," Kelsey added.
Salinas often retweets what Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez writes, Kelsey added. She's definitely in the Socialist mode.
"But she's got a compelling personal story," Kelsey warned, referring to her recovery from childhood cancer, injuries in a car accident and loss of her father.
Kelsey said he is emphasizing something that Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Lee found were the most important issues he sees in the state: safe communities, education and jobs.
Kelsey also can boast of his successful effort to amend the state constitution to prevent an income tax from happening.
November 6 is our opportunity to see that he doesn't join the Senate and that local Republicans get elected, particularly after our big losses on August 2.
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