Naifeh Places Hill Back For Another Session In Freshman Committee Assignments

"Right now, I'm the second highest ranking Republican member [minorty party] on the Transportation Committee," Hill said.

Well you have to give Democrat-hating Matthew Hill some credit; he certainly knows how to spin the bad news for the folks back home in Washington County --- such as the returning Jonesborough legislator not being appointed to any new House committee assignments by Tennessee Speaker of the House Jimmy Naifeh. According to a recent newspaper article, Hill was not assigned to any new committes by Naifeh --- and Hill simply retained the same freshman assignments to both the House Transportation Committee and the House Children and Family Affairs Committee that he originally received during the 104th TNGA.

Still, Hill favored much better with his 105th TNGA House committee assignments than did his fellow (and former) House Transportation Committee member Jerome Cochran (too bad). Johnson City resident Cochran was soundly defeated during the 2006 Carter County election for state representative by Kent Williams of Elizabethton. Democratic house Speaker Naifeh appointed freshman Republican Rep. Williams to both the House Finance, Ways, and Means Committee and the House Health and Human Resources Committees.

I personally believe that Hill is very fortunate to receive these committee reappointments --- if Naifeh had even heard a fraction of the anti-Naifeh comments spilled over the years on WPWT 870 AM "Good Morning Tri-Cities" by both former GMTC hosts Matthew Hill and his litlle brother Timothy Hill, Matthew might have very well found his legislative offices within the State Capitol to be reassigned into a basement level janitor's closet.

I would be interested in learning for Rep. Hill if he actually shares his brother's Timothy's view that Satan directed the election of Jimmy Naifeh as Tennessee Speaker of the House...

Monday, August 07, 2006 - WPWT Timothy Hill Babbles: TN GOPer Legislators Re-Electing House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh Under Direction Of Satan

(news article "Washington County has two on Transportation panel"from Thursday, January 16, 2007 edition of the Johnson City Press)