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Skandal dan Kontroversi Gubernur Terbodoh Ray Blanton di Tennessee

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American businessman and politician who served as Governor of Tennessee from 1975 to 1979, Ray Blanton wrote, “Honesty does not always bring a response of love, but it is absolutely essential to it.”

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Jerry Lewis with the support of Tennessee Gov. Ray Blanton, and Ray Kroc, chairman of the board of McDonald's Corp., cut the ribbon to formally open the Jerry Lewis Neuromuscular Disease Research Center on the Vanderbilt University campus in Tennessee on June 25, 1975.

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I was roughly 10-years-0ld when Ray Blanton was sworn in as governor of the state of Tennessee. I paid attention the way anyone in fifth grade does which means I was buying Tiger Beat magazine and reading Bigfoot books like a boss every time my mom would let me near a bookstore. And Starsky and Hutch was a popular thing in my home, I believe, if memory serves me correctly. The one thing about Ray Blanton is what he is most remembered for were the scandals. I remember the whispers and then the fall-out, although by the time he left office, I was in my teens. Sure, he did some okay things (as politicians can do, and for Blanton it was tourism) but let’s remember that the biggest image left in people’s cranial circuitry regarding his life of political service was that Lt. Governor John Wilder and Speaker Ned McWherter swore in governor-elect Lamar Alexander early to deal with the scandal-o-rama that was happening. We have discussed legacies before. Good ones, but Blanton’s legacy wasn’t that hot. Shall we? Blanton’s most serious acts of corruption occurred just shortly before his term was to expire as pardons were delivered for 24 convicted murderers and 28 prisoners of other crimes in what many believed were performed in exchange for money. To stop Blanton’s pardon spree, the Lieutenant Governor and State House Speaker claimed the state constitution was unspecific as to when a newly elected Governor must be sworn in. As a result, Alexander was sworn in three days before his scheduled inauguration to get Blanton out before he could pardon anyone else.

Connecting The Dots: Legacies And The Now In Tennessee Government – Newscoma