Lamar Alexander

We had, um, you know, quite a bit.

We had, uh, Lamar Alexander.

We've had very important people.

Marsha Blackburn-

So it was the Ayers versus Fordyce cases, the lines of cases in Mississippi.

It was Guyer versus Alexander.

At that time, Lamar Alexander was the governor of Tennessee.

And the name of the case changed with the name of the governors.

That was the case in Tennessee.

I'm sure it's going to be a fantastic event," she said.

Former Tennessee governor and U.S. senator Lamar Alexander, whose 10th title is the newly published memoir The Education of a Senator: From JFK to Trump, will be among the featured writers at the free event planned for October 17th and 18th at Bicentennial Mall, the Tennessee State Museum, and the Tennessee State Library and Archives in Nashville.

The book festival, open to the public from 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM on October 17th and from 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM on the 18th, will feature about 175 authors representing an array of genres.

The event will feature panel sessions, discussions, book signings, and readings.

We do it each day thanks to our friends at West End Tire.

They are a fixture in Blount County, locally owned and operated for more than 50 years in Maryville, right near Broadway and Lamar Alexander.

It's a full service repair shop.

They'll do pickup and delivery.

You have another governor.

But I think what Tennessee's b- really been blessed with is, and I, I kinda, you know, you've got the godfather of education, you know, Lamar Alexander, right? I mean, he kind of like, is a, as a k- a key representative of the commitment that this state has made to educating kids.

And so, you know, e- starting with Bredesen, and then of course with Governor Haslam, and now Governor Lee, it has just been a consistent focus on how do we continue to improve the opportunities for our kids so that they can achieve whatever it is they want regionally, statewide, nationally, or globally, right? Um, and so, um, through that, it, it, I think, you know, things were moving along, really a lot of focus on kind of the, the, the careers pathways work, and then COVID happened, right? And it ki- well, you'd already passed the TISA law, so that was a, a big start.

Which is how we, for those who don't know, TISA is how we fund our school systems, which actually when I first got elected in 2004, uh, one of my, uh, Brooke, Brooke's in the studio with me here.

Worked with him on that.

Went out in DC, worked in the Senate for, uh, Lamar Alexander from Tennessee, who just retired.

Wow.

Wrote a book, uh, recently about a lot of bipartisan stuff and working with different presidents, and then, um, worked on a bunch of national races out there doing marketing and digital stuff, and then moved back home because Wisconsin's the greatest, so.