There seems to be a growing and well coordinated effort growing in opposition to Gus Puryear's nomination to a federal judge seat in middle Tennessee.
I clipped this out of the paper a few weeks ago and found it a bit odd, assuming that this was some fringe individual or small group that had some personal grudge and that would be all that would be the small and only ripple in the water.
Then there was this over the weekend...Puryear faces questions about qualifications, conflicts of interest
By BILL THEOBALD • Tennessean Washington Bureau • February 24, 2008Senators on the committee were given two weeks to submit additional questions that will be sent to Puryear for written responses.
Puryear, 39, declined to comment on questions about his fitness for the bench while the confirmation process is ongoing, said Steve Owen, spokesman for CCA.
Letters opposing Puryear were sent to the committee by Private Corrections Institute Inc., which opposes prison privatization; the Alliance for Justice, an umbrella group of dozens of national civil rights and other organizations; and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. Among their arguments: Puryear doesn’t have the proper legal qualifications. Puryear spent less than three years in private practice in Nashville before signing on as counsel for the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs (chaired by then-Sen. Fred Thompson).
Next, he served as legislative director for former Sen. Bill Frist for about three years before becoming general counsel and vice president at CCA in January 2001.
Alex Friedmann is shown outside the Federal Courthouse in Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 19, 2008. Friedmann, who spent six years incarcerated at a Corrections Corporation of America prison in Clifton, Tenn., is conducting a public relations campaign against the nomination of Gus Puryear to become a U.S. district judge for the Middle District of Tennessee. Puryear is a Correction Corporation of America general counsel.
It now appears that the forces of labor, former prisoners and anti-prison privatization forces have organized, using their willing lackies in the Judiciary committee to obstruct and deny a qualified, balanced, intelligent, and highly respected Tennessean. This is a shame and should be fought against, as I had written back in June, believing that his confirmation process would have been a bit smoother.
Gus A Puryear IV, should be supported, by his fellow middle Tennesseans and conservatives in general, in confirmation for a judge in the federal realm.Here comes the judge...for former Round Table Panelist
Kimberly and I just recently ran into Gus at a recent book-signing of Karlen's reprinted book along with several other of the former Round Table gang.
What good news to read.
Gus consistently articulated a very positive conservative message that was both sound and compelling when he was on the show.
Congratulations Gus....
1 comments:
I am a conservative Republican. CCA has a facility in Indianapolis and it is dreadful. It gets constantly sued and the staff are constanly covering up wrong-doing. They won't let inmates file grievances. They destroy records and alter records. Whatever it takes.
This isn't a conservative-liberal thing. It's a matter of fairness, honesty, decency, integrity and dare I might say the Rule of Law. Puryear has headed up a legal effort that has gone way beyond the bounds of ethics in doing their job.
I want good strong conservative Republicans appointed to the bench. We do not need to appoint people like Puryear who fall far short when it comes to ethics and integrity.
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