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Memphis Grizzlies license plate efforts underway

The Commercial Appeal—May 30th, 2013
NASHVILLE — State Sen. Jim Kyle of Memphis filed a bill Wednesday to create a Memphis Grizzlies specialty license plate. But the Tennessee legislature is out of session until January, which means the measure (Senate Bill 1423) cannot be approved until at least early 2014. “The Grizzlies galvanized the city of Memphis and the entire [...] Read More »

Sen. Jim Kyle Addresses TN Fed. of Democratic Women

May 6th, 2013
Kyle Addresses TN Federation of Democratic Women Convention Senate Leader Discusses Past Successes, Bright Future of Party Murfreesboro, Tenn.—Democratic Senate Leader Jim Kyle told a capacity crowd of Democratic women that they have been the backbone of the party in Tennessee during their 50 year history, and will be the engine of political change for [...] Read More »

WKNO: Kyle, Kelsey Debate Health Care, Government’s Role

May 3rd, 2013
State Senate Democratic leader Jim Kyle of Memphis says Republicans in the Tennessee General Assembly are becoming like “Dixiecrats” – the Southern segregationist Democrats in the U.S. Congress in the late 1940s who formed their own party for a time. “They sound like Dixiecrats … in the sense that we disagree with the federal government’s [...] Read More »