Indiana Court of Appeals Judge Terry A. Crone announced Tuesday he will retire effective Nov. 5 after 20 years as a member of the court.
Crone’s retirement is the second this year among the 15 appeals court judges after Patricia Riley stepped down Aug. 30. His retirement ceremony is planned for Nov. 4 in the Supreme Court Courtroom at the Statehouse.
Crone won three elections as St. Joseph County Circuit Court judge before he was appointed to the appeals court by Gov. Joe Kernan in 2004.
The appeals court credits Crone with authoring at least 2,988 majority opinions. He helped found a program in South Bend to familiarize minority high school students with the law and related fields and initiated the first Spanish-speaking program for public defenders in St. Joseph County.
“Judge Crone’s tenure on the Court of Appeals has been marked by his tenacity, dedication and good humor,” appeals court Chief Judge Robert R. Altice Jr. said in a statement. “He will be missed both as a quality judge and a first-rate colleague.”
Court officials said the judicial commission expects to meet in October to interview candidates to replace Crone and vote on three finalists it will submit to Gov. Eric Holcomb for consideration.
The commission picked three county judges in July as finalists to replace Riley. Holcomb has not yet announced his selection.
The two upcoming appointments will be the sixth and seventh picks Holcomb has made to the appeals court since becoming governor in 2017.
Crone and Riley were among the six of the appeals court’s 15 judges who were appointed by Democratic governors.
Their departures mean that Republican governors will have named 11 of the 15 appeals court judges and all five state Supreme Court justices.
Tom Davies is a Statehouse reporter for State Affairs Pro Indiana. Reach him at[email protected] or on X at @TomDaviesIND.
The man who defined late-20th-century Louisiana politics, for better or worse, would have celebrated his 97th birthday last month. He was born in Avoyelles Parish on August 7, 1927.
Edwin Washington Edwards’ gift for public speaking was evident early. He preached in the Church of the Nazarene as a teen but returned to his family’s Roman Catholic faith.
Edwards didn’t smoke or drink; his vices famously were gambling and womanizing, along with loose political ethics. He rose from the Crowley City Council to the state Senate to Congress and the governor’s mansion in 17 years.
In his first race for governor in 1971, Edwards’ record of racial tolerance attracted Black voters recently enfranchised by the 1965 Voting Rights Act, while the French-speaking son of Acadiana also counted on Cajun voters. The state’s two most prominent minority groups formed a solid political base that supported an unprecedented four terms as governor.
His first term was marked by structural reform, as he helped usher in the 1974 Constitution and reshaped how Louisiana collects oil revenue. He promised help “to the poor, the elderly, the unemployed, the thousands of Black Louisianans who have not yet enjoyed the full bounty of the American dream,” and appointed women and minorities to key state positions.
The 1970s oil boom, along with changing the severance tax from 25 cents a barrel to 12.5 percent of value, filled state coffers and boosted Edwards’ popularity. Constitutionally barred from a third consecutive term, he left office in 1980 only to return four years later, easily defeating incumbent Dave Treen, the state’s first Republican governor since Reconstruction.
But the oil boom went bust during the 1980s, and a third-term fiscal crisis coincided with federal indictments, though not convictions, for mail fraud, obstruction of justice and public bribery stemming from the sale of hospital certificates. Bowing out of the 1987 runoff when he faced likely defeat against then-Congressman Buddy Roemer, Edwards’ political career appeared to be over.
Yet once again, Edwards returned four years later, outpacing the politically wounded Roemer—voters rejected his tax overhaul package and disliked his switch to the Republican Party—and toxic former Klansman David Duke to win his final term.
“Vote for the crook. It’s important,” read the famous bumper sticker.
As it turned out, both Duke and Edwards were found to be crooks. While Duke served a year in prison in 2003 and 2004 for bilking his supporters, Edwards was convicted in 2000 on racketeering, extortion and fraud charges for selling casino licenses.
Edwards was sentenced to 10 years and went to prison in 2002, gaining release in 2011. While serving his sentence, he divorced his second wife and started a relationship with Trina Grimes, who would become his third.
After prison, he and Trina had a child and co-starred in a short-lived reality television show, “The Governor’s Wife.” He attempted one more political comeback in 2014, losing to Congressman Garret Graves by a 62-38 percent margin, only the second defeat of his long political career.
Edwards died of respiratory failure in 2021 at his home in Gonzales. He was 93.
Reactions to his death reflected his complicated legacy.
“Edwin was a larger than life figure known for his wit and charm, but he will be equally remembered for being a compassionate leader who cared for the plight of all Louisianans,” then-Gov. John Bel Edwards said. “Our state has lost a giant, and we will miss him dearly.”
LSU journalism professor Robert Mann, who worked for some of Louisiana’s most prominent recent Democrats, said Edwards “had eloquence, creativity, a razor-sharp mind, executive abilities that many lacked, and leadership skills that many envied…He had everything, and yet squandered it by devoting much of his time to enriching his friends. I’ve rarely seen a wider chasm between the promise for greatness and reality.”
Rodney Kennedy, writing this year for Baptist News Global, found parallels between Edwards and Donald Trump following the latter’s recent conviction.
“For my money, Edwards was smarter, slicker, savvier and funnier than Trump, but Edwards and Louisiana taught Trump and MAGA how to dance with the devil,” Kennedy says.
Editor’s note: The information in this piece came from Baptist News Global, The Associated Press, The New York Times and the Secretary of State’s office.
This piece first ran in the Aug. 8, 2024 edition of LaPolitics Weekly. Wish you could have read it then? Subscribe today!
Republican precinct committee members from Senate District 48 will meet Wednesday evening in Jasper to decide who will fill the last two years of Messmer’s Senate term running through the November 2026 election.
The Senate vacancy comes after Messmer resigned from the seat two months ahead of his anticipated election to the U.S. House after winning the GOP primary for the heavily Republican 8th Congressional District.
Four candidates met the filing deadline for Wednesday’s caucus: Indiana State Police Maj. Todd Smith and Dubois County Clerk Amy Kippenbrock are joined in the race by Dubois County Councilman Daryl Schmitt and Richard Moss, a Jasper physician who has made unsuccessful runs for Congress and the Legislature.
The heavily Republican Senate district covers six southwestern Indiana counties: Crawford, Dubois, Gibson, Perry, Pike and Spencer. The state Republican Party said 145 precinct committee leaders are eligible to vote.
Smith running with multiple endorsements
Smith touts endorsements from retiring U.S. Rep. Larry Bucshon and several area Republican officeholders and party leaders, including county GOP chairs from Crawford, Gibson and Spencer counties.
Smith, an attorney, has been chief legal counsel for the Indiana State Police headquarters in Indianapolis for 18 years and, overall, has spent 37 years in trooper and leadership positions. Smith’s wife, Sherri Heichelbech, is the Spencer County sheriff and they own a farm near Rockport.
Smith said he had spent much of the past decade working remotely from Spencer County while continuing to oversee the legal work for the state police and interactions with legislators on bills involving public safety issues.
Smith, who will have to leave the state police if he wins the caucus, said he is interested in legislative work as he nears retirement from the agency.
“I still want to work,” Smith told State Affairs. “This is the perfect opportunity for me to use the skills that I’ve developed over the last 20 years and my law degree and help the people of Indiana.”
He said he wants to continue working on some issues he has dealt with in law enforcement, including fentanyl abuse, illegal immigration and bail reform.
Kippenbrock points to county experience
Kippenbrock is in her second term as DuBois County clerk, winning election in 2018 with 57% of the vote and running unopposed in 2022. She is vice chair of the Dubois County Republicans.
Dubois is the largest of the six counties in the Senate district, with about one-third of the population.
Kippenbrock cites her time in county government, both winning and running elections, as valuable experiences for the state Senate.
“I think that having someone that has grassroots knowledge on what it takes to run an election in Indiana, I think is really beneficial when I think about coming to the Legislature,” she told State Affairs.
Kippenbrock said she was passionate about improving mental health and substance abuse programs, along with promoting economic development for the area.
Moss shifts from congressional bids
Moss, who lives in Jasper of Dubois County, entered the legislative caucus race after falling short in the May primary for the Republican congressional nomination to succeed Bucshon.
Messmer won that primary while Moss finished a distant third with 14% of the vote after putting nearly $750,000 of his own money into his campaign, according to Federal Election Commission records.
Moss ran challenges to the right against Bucshon in unsuccessful 2016 and 2018 primary runs. Moss also lost to current U.S. Sen. Mike Braun in a 2014 primary for an Indiana House seat.
Moss said he wants to see Republican-led states become “our sanctuary of the Constitution and our way of life.” He backs an agenda that includes deporting migrants in the country illegally and blocking diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives in schools and universities.
“We’ve got to fortify the red states and make them the fortress of what used to be America,” Moss said. “I’d like Indiana to be among others, like Florida under [Gov. Ron] DeSantis, to make Indiana a fortress for American values.”
Schmitt among 3 Dubois County candidates
Schmitt is in his second year on the Dubois County Council after winning a Republican caucus to fill a vacancy. He describes himself as a former UPS manager who is now a farmer and also works in seed sales.
Schmitt declined an interview request from State Affairs.
Tom Davies is a Statehouse reporter for State Affairs Pro Indiana. Reach him at[email protected] or on X at @TomDaviesIND.
Here’s what you may have missed in the latest issue of LaPolitics Weekly, published last week…
— CONVENTIONAL WISDOM: After two of the most expensive and complicated party conventions on record, does the current model still make sense?
— GONZALES’ FIRST BLACK MAYOR: Gonzales will have its first Black mayor no matter who wins this year’s election, which demonstrates the city’s growth and shifting demographics…
— LaPOLITICS Q&A: “Interestingly, I have not run across recipes or cooking preparations for bear. I believe it has been so long since this was possible, many of the wonderful chefs and cooks in Louisiana will be relying on recipes from their great-great-grandparents,” Brandon DeCuir, chair of the Louisiana Wildlife and Fisheries Commission, anticipating the upcoming black bear season…
— FIELD NOTES: The Louisiana State Employees’ Retirement System (better known as LASERS) reported a 14 percent investment return for the fiscal year that ended June 30…
— SHOP TALK: All (the best) fundraising is local…
— OUR HISTORY: The storm that divided Louisiana’s timeline into “pre-Katrina” and “post Katrina” came ashore in the state 19 years ago today…
— THEY SAID IT: “No one ever said they were trying to find me. I’m an elected official. I’m easy to find.” —Rep. C. Denise Marcelle, about ethics violations for not filing campaign finance reports on time, in The Illuminator
— LLA AGAIN QUESTIONS SENTENCE CALCULATIONS: The Department of Public Safety and Corrections still doesn’t have an adequate system in place to ensure prisoners are serving the correct amount of time, the Louisiana Legislative Auditor says in a new report. The LLA reviewed a sample of 31 changes to initial time computations from the second half of last year, and while it did not find errors, it did find that 20 lacked evidence that anyone double-checked the change. Corrections officials dispute the auditors’ claim that their system is inadequate, saying the computations are reviewed after input and again when preparing to release a prisoner. The U.S. Department of Justice, in a report issued last year, found that Louisiana routinely violated the U.S. Constitution by holding people beyond their release dates.
— LOCAL GOVERNMENT THEFT: Also from the LLA, a former office supervisor with the Ponchatoula Area Recreation District No. 1 is believed to have used fraudulent checks to misappropriate $110,000 in property tax and state revenue sharing funds from the district. The Attorney General’s office investigation was ongoing as of the date of the report. The district filed a claim with its insurance company and was reimbursed $107,798.98. In addition, the auditor found the district lacked adequate internal controls over its financial reporting, lacked adequate documentation for credit card charges, and failed to perform an annual inventory of the district’s fixed assets or update the fixed asset tracking software. The district also failed to pay monthly SIMPLE IRA contributions for employees when due, according to the LLA.
— FUNDRAISERS: On Wednesday, Sept. 11, a cocktail reception supporting Sen. Jean-Paul Coussan for the Public Service Commission will be held in New Orleans at 5:30 p.m. (The deets). Rep. Brach Myers, who may look to replace Coussan in the Senate if the latter moves to the PSC, has two events scheduled: one on Wednesday, Sept. 11 at 6 p.m. at a private home in Lafayette and another on Wednesday, Oct. 2 at 5 p.m. at Bridgeview in Baton Rouge. You can RSVP to Myers’ fundraisers to [email protected]. Want your event listed? Send it to [email protected]!
— THE WEEK AHEAD: New Orleans District Attorney Jason Williams is expected to testify Thursday in what could be a contentious meeting of Senate Judiciary C focused on post-conviction relief. House Education meets today to discuss implementation of new laws. House Appropriations will meet Friday morning to continue budget discussions, while House Insurance and Civil Law and Procedure will keep the conversation going about insurance costs.
— THE END OF CHEVRON: The U.S. Supreme Court recently struck down the Chevron doctrine, under which courts had shown deference to federal agencies’ interpretation of their authority. Ward Cormier, senior director of federal affairs for The Picard Group, explains why that matters for Louisiana in an exclusive column for tomorrow’s edition of Beltway Beat.
With a projected shortfall of up to $587 million for the next fiscal year, the budget-writing House Appropriations Committee has a slate of meetings stretching into October to review expenditures related to Louisiana’s departments and agencies.
Chairman Jack McFarland and his committee colleagues conducted their first hearing on the Health Department last week, and at least three more meetings are on the books.
The approaching budget deficit was originally forecasted at $340 million, due largely to an expiring .45 percent state sales tax. You can add another $248 million to the tally if lawmakers yet again extend a teacher stipend and underwrite special tutoring programs.
Renewing the temporary sales tax portion is unlikely, especially with anti-tax advocates waiting in the wings to describe any renewal as a tax increase.
Instead, everyone from Gov. Jeff Landry and Revenue Secretary Richard Nelson to freshman legislators and those facing term limits are talking about tax reform as an avenue to prosperity. So far, however, the Senate has been unwilling to go along with a proposed constitutional rewrite or summertime special session.
Not all hope is lost. Even though the 2025 regular session will be fiscal in nature, a special session on taxes could be called in the wake of the presidential election, but before the regular session convenes April 14.
A march towards conservative fiscal practices, or cuts married with streamlining and efficiencies, appear to be gaining more ground in the budget battle. Landry has ordered departments to search for savings, and he has been supportive of task forces and studies to possibly merge certain agencies or otherwise make substantive operational changes.
Shrinking the footprint of government is an agreeable theme in the Republican-led Legislature, where the Appropriations Committee heard a presentation from Health Department officials last week outlining $105 million in state cuts — a figure that balloons to $332 million when federal matching dollars are included.
Even though committee members and the Landry Administration asked departments to identify potential savings, some lawmakers were still surprised to hear programmatic cuts targeting nursing homes, hospitals, pediatric care and other areas of health care.
Appropriations will meet again on Friday (9 a.m. in Room 1) to discuss the 2025-2026 operating budgets for the Justice Department, Office of the Secretary of State, Treasury Department, Corrections Department, Department of Public Safety, Office of Juvenile Justice and the executive department.
On Sept. 13, the committee will hear from the Department of Transportation and Development; Department of Children and Family Services; Department of Economic Development; Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism; Louisiana Workforce Commission; Department of Veterans Affairs; Department of Agriculture and Forestry; Department of Energy and Natural Resources; and Department of Environmental Quality.
Next month, on Oct. 11, appropriators will hear from higher education institutions, the Education Department and Special Schools and Commissions.
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — How do we know if a recession has started? Sometimes it’s obvious. In March 2020 during the pandemic emergency, weekly applications for unemployment insurance jumped from 200,000 to 6 million. There was no doubt we were in a recession.
More often, it’s hard to know if a recession has begun. Economic indicators like employment, income and sales often decline for a month or two while the economy grows.
For example, during the long 129-month expansion in the 20-teens, retail sales adjusted for inflation decreased 43 times. Sales decreased ten times for two months straight.
The expansion rolled merrily along.
Perhaps we should look for three straight months of decline. During the Great Recession from December 2007 to June 2009, sales dropped seven months in a row. There was no doubt we were in a recession. That means, though, we have to wait at least two months after the first downturn to even suspect a recession. If a recession began today, that would be November.
We might ask the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts, if it thinks a recession has started. The NBER is the unofficial umpire of recession beginnings and endings. It looks at many economic indicators to see when they peaked and when they turned down, and then when they troughed and turned back up. Peak to trough marks a recession, which the bureau defines as a significant decline in economic activity across the economy.
But the NBER is mostly interested in marking peaks and troughs for research purposes, so it waits a long time before making a call. It announced the Great Recession’s December 2007 peak in December 2008 and the June 2009 trough in September 2010. Reporters like to make fun: “Breaking news! The recession ended a year and a half ago.”
We can’t look for an announcement from the recession umpire. Perhaps we could play umpire ourselves, though, by looking at the indicators that the NBER uses. Have any of them peaked and are now declining? Yes. Retail sales adjusted for inflation peaked in September 2023 and have fallen in five of the nine months since.
Real manufacturing and trade sales peaked in December 2023 and have fallen in three of five months since. And total employment measured by a survey of people peaked in April this year. It’s fallen in one of the three months since. The drop in May was pretty big.
Industrial production had its highest reading in June and fell in July. But real consumer spending, real income and payroll employment measured by a survey of businesses all continue to grow. Is this a significant decline across the economy? It’s too soon to tell.
There is an indicator that’s designed to mark recessions as they are beginning. It’s called the Sahm Rule, named for the economist who discovered it, Claudia Sahm. Take the average of the past three unemployment rates and compare it to the lowest three-month average in the prior year. If the current average is more than a half-point higher, a recession has begun.
The rule flagged a recession in February 2008, only two months after the date the NBER eventually marked. In 11 recessions since 1953, the Sahm Rule called it after an average of two and a half months. Only twice, in 1959 and in 2003, did the rule call a recession when there wasn’t one.
What does the rule say now? The average unemployment rate over the past three months is 4.13%. The three-month average low the year before that was in May through July 2023, 3.6%. The difference is 0.53%. That’s more than half a point. Oops.
The rule says a recession has started. Sahm thinks we’re not in a recession. The number of people entering the labor force but not yet employed is increasing, and unfilled job openings still exceed the number of people searching for work.
The rising unemployment rate is the result of the Federal Reserve’s efforts to battle inflation by raising interest rates. Fed Chair Jerome Powell says they’ll likely start cutting rates at the Fed’s September 18 meeting. If that works to stimulate the economy, perhaps the unemployment rate won’t rise much further, and the Sahm Rule will register its third miss.
Larry DeBoer is a professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University.
Former state Sen. Brian Kelsey’s latest effort to get his federal prison sentence for campaign finance fraud overturned has been rejected by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
A three-judge panel had taken less than a month from oral arguments in June to deny the Germantown Republican’s appeal of his 21-month sentence on the basis that prosecutors had reneged on the guidelines of his plea agreement.
Kelsey’s attorney, Alex Little, filed a motion seeking an en banc hearing before all of the judges on the 6th Circuit. The original panel composed of Appeals Judges Karen Moore, Eugene Siler and Raymond Kethledge reviewed the petition for a rehearing and determined that the issues it raised “were fully considered upon the original submission and decision.” The request was then circulated to the full court, but no judge requested a vote on the motion.
Kelsey had originally pleaded guilty to masterminding a scheme to funnel money from his state campaign account through two other PACs to the American Conservative Union, which in turn spent $80,000 on ads supporting his unsuccessful congressional campaign in 2016. He later tried to revoke his guilty plea, but the move was blocked in federal court in Nashville.
Kelsey had been granted a reprieve from reporting to prison while his appeals were underway. It’s unclear whether he will pursue a challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court — or whether he would be able to continue to avoid starting his sentence while that process is underway.
The petition for the 6th Circuit to reconsider the case en banc echoed a point Kelsey made in a fiery denunciation of his 2021 indictment as a political witch hunt. The filing alleged the Justice Department revived a “dormant investigation” into the lawmaker only after there had been a change in presidential administrations.
U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw in August 2023 sentenced Kelsey to about half the length of time federal prosecutors had recommended to the judge. During the hearing, the judge asked the government about whether a sentencing enhancement was appropriate because Kelsey had either been untruthful when he first pleaded guilty or when he later insisted he hadn’t committed any crimes.
John Taddei of the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section said the extra punishment was not part of the original plea agreement, so the government would defer to the court about its application. But Taddei went on to say sentencing guidelines allow for an enhancement if defendants commit perjury during a court proceeding and that Kelsey “repeatedly admitted that he lied at his change of plea hearing.”
“I think the government’s come pretty close to violating the plea agreement,” Little said during the hearing. “It sure sounds like they’re advocating for those two points, and they can’t do that.”
Little said during oral arguments in Cincinnati that the government had “bargained away” the right to discuss whether a sentence enhancement was appropriate and should have declined to answer Crenshaw’s question on the topic.
In the unpublished opinion issued in July, Moore and Siler found that Kelsey’s attorney hadn’t properly objected to an alleged breach of the plea agreement when a federal prosecutor agreed that the former lawmaker could face an enhanced sentence for perjuring himself when he tried to revoke his guilty plea. Kethledge said the objection had been properly preserved, but found that the government did not breach its obligations under the plea agreement.
“The government’s response was truthful and accurate,” Kethledge found. “In this appeal, Kelsey disputes neither that he committed perjury at his plea-withdrawal hearing nor that the obstruction enhancement was applicable.”
Franklin-based Acadia Healthcare, one of the nation’s largest operators of psychiatric hospitals and treatment facilities, finds itself under a New York Times microscope in a report asserting the company has “lured” some patients to its facilities and sometimes “held them against their will” for financial rather than medical reasons.
The paper said its team of reporters interviewed more than 50 current and former executives and staffers as well as examined extensive records. Acadia charges $2,200 a day for some patients.
The report describes the company deploying multiple strategies to convince insurers to keep patients in for longer periods. In some cases, patients or families who didn’t get lawyers were kept until their insurance ran out, the paper reported.
Acadia is also a player in Tennessee politics, The Tennessee Journal found. State campaign financial disclosures show Acadia has donated $160,900 to Tennessee candidates and their PACs since 2017, including $50,000 to legislative Republicans’ joint fundraising committee, $15,000 to Gov. Bill Lee and $14,500 to House Speaker Cameron Sexton and his PAC.
In at least 12 of the 19 states where Acadia operates psychiatric facilities, The Times reported its review of records found “dozens” of patients, employees and police officers have told authorities the company was detaining people in ways that violated the law. “Judges have intervened to release patients” in some instances, the newspaper reported.
The article describes how some seeking routine care at emergency rooms are sent to Acadia facilities and find themselves being “locked in.”
“We were keeping people who didn’t need to be there,” Lexie Reid, a psychiatric nurse who worked at an Acadia facility in Florida from 2021 to 2022, told The Times. The newspaper also reported at Acadia facilities around the country, health inspectors have found some patients did not receive therapy, were unsupervised or were denied access to “vital medications.”
The paper noted Acadia closed its Highland Ridge Hospital in Utah this year after state regulators investigated reports of dozens of rapes and assaults.
Tennessee rigor mortis case
In Tennessee two years ago, The Times reported, state inspectors faulted Acadia for falsely claiming in medical charts that a patient in Memphis had been checked on every 15 minutes. The patient was found in rigor mortis hours after he died.
Tim Blair, an Acadia spokesman, would not comment on individual patients, citing privacy laws. He said the patient examples cited by the paper were not representative of many patients who have had positive experiences.
“Still, to be clear: Any incident that falls short of our rigorous standards is unacceptable, and actions are taken to address it,” Mr. Blair said. He added, “Quality care and medical necessity drives every patient-related decision at Acadia.”
Tennessee contributions
Here is a list of lawmakers and committees that received at least $1,000 from Acadia since 2017 (candidate and PAC totals are combined):
Recipient
Total
Tennessee Legislative Campaign Committee
$50,000
Gov. Bill Lee, a Franklin Republican
$15,000
House Speaker Cameron Sexton, R-Crossville
$14,537
Senate Majority Leader Jack Johnson, R-Franklin
$11,500
Senate Speaker Randy McNally, R-Oak Ridge
$6,250
Sen. Ferrell Haile, R-Gallatin
$4,000
Rep. Ryan Williams. R-Cookeville
$4,000
Tennessee Hospital Association
$3,621
House Majority Leader Glen Casada, R-Franklin
$3,000
House Majority Leader William Lamberth, R-Portland
$3,000
Gubernatorial candidate Diane Black, R-Gallatin
$2,500
Senate Finance Chair Bo Watson, R-Hixson
$2,500
House Commerce Chair Kevin Vaughan, R-Collierville
$2,250
Sen. Shane Reeves, R-Murfreesboro
$2,250
House Republican Caucus
$2,000
Senate Commerce Chair Paul Bailey, R-Sparta
$2,000
House Health Chair Bryan Terry, R-Murfreesboro
$2,000
Senate Health Chair Rusty Crowe, R-Johnson City
$2,000
Senate Republican Caucus Chair Ken Yager, R-Kingston
$2,000
House Finance Chair Patsy Hazlewood, R-Signal Mountain
$1,950
Rep. Sabi Kumar, R-Springfield
$1,750
Rep. Johnny Garrett, R-Goodlettsville
$1,500
Rep. Michael Curcio, R-Dickson
$1,500
House Finance Subcommittee Chair Gary Hicks, R-Rogersville
$1,250
Sen. Joey Hensley, R-Hohenwald
$1,250
Sen. Bill Powers, R-Clarksville
$1,000
Sen. Reginald Tate, D-Memphis
$1,000
House Education Administration Chair Mark White, R-Memphis
