COULD TENNESSEE HAVE its own Jesse Ventura? Let’s hope he’s better than that.

Related: Tea party takes agenda, concerns to Tennessee lawmakers. “Tennessee tea party activists took to the halls of the state legislature Wednesday, warning Republican leaders not to misinterpret the results of the November election as a sign of implicit tea party support. . . . Activists were on the Hill to let GOP lawmakers know the tea party’s next step in Tennessee is to influence legislation and to hold Republicans ‘accountable’ on a variety of policy measures, including fighting federal health-care reform.”