WPLN News Archive; John Wilder (Bill) 2 1 01; News Archive 1/2/01-2/12/01

thune in comanche airplane with the fantasy flight of the scale is a familiar sight to air traffic controllers at national airport the plane belonged to a seventy nine year old fighter pilot named giampaolo father happens to be the lieutenant governor of the state of tennessee but there's nothing in the world that we love to do or talk about or the long walk over doing what was unique way of circuitous rambling is something that fellow state senators have long been used to but it still takes newcomers to the state capitol by surprise water is a farmer from fayette county in the southwestern part of tennessee his father ran a supply company among money to small farmers many of whom were black and many of whom had children who became waters closest planet water says that his childhood played a major role in the decision he made during the nineteen sixties at that time many white landowners or expelling black tenant farmers because they're registering to vote for white

people hua nomination and finance people they move blackhawk fall but i couldn't overall water first on a state senate seat in nineteen fifty nine and served a two year stint just long enough for him to decide that he didn't like the way that the senate was being run in those days and better than the legislature with robert plant and names and a government commission and wouldn't have spared from don't have officers who have the leadership of the players we live in the whole minimum of all it showed that i'm asked to come back i'm going to be shown that dish when water came back to the senate in nineteen sixty seven the legislature was becoming far more powerful independent in nineteen seventy one well that became speaker the senate a position synonymous with lieutenant governor in tennessee five years later a mild manner was getting ready to be sworn in as governor when the rumor began to circulate the re bland had plans to build out suspicious pardons during his

last few days in office water and then house speaker newt mcwhorter took the highly unusual step of removing bland from office early he had a lot of people went on to pitch and i thought they don't want all the manufactured one word drone he won't go on all alone some momentum that in the people on the nurturing we did what we did three decades after he became lieutenant governor john waller has left an indelible mark on the senate the senate liked the house has more democrats than republicans but for years now the democrat walter has held a practice of appointing some republicans to positions as committee chairman something house speaker jimmy navy does not do water also allows an even encourages his body to be slow and deliberate oh or the fifth division and the whole every mammal protection and all i remember the voter conviction and i don't want anything to the ferrari their vote on their convictions which include friendship and that's fine they get

most coverage quickly strategic not money not roll had a friend there should be some in a beautiful friendship rolling while there was just reelected to the senate seat and reelected to the speaker's chair so we ran again in two thousand for wilder who were first to god as the cosmos seems all surprised by the question and you know it or not but personally i'm not allow it go through an umbrella we've years and years and years and years ago when i first got to be elected they got us from portugal is about eighteen and a half billion dollar companies in trouble for the time being water we continue to fly back and forth from fayette county he will continue to say that he wants the senate to be the senate any will continue to talk about the

cosmos and talk about just how much he loves to fly for national public radio i'm bill kids