David All wrote in the post just before this one about the growing Republican revolution.

It is with great excitement that I announce that I will be joining the headquarters staff of the Tennessee Republican Party in late October to serve as the party's communications director.

Democrats currently control the state House 53-46, while the state Senate is split 16-16-1. It has Republican leadership thanks to one Democrat who voted for a Republican to lead the Senate, offsetting the one independent who was a former "Republican" who regularly voted for the Democratic leadership.

Gaining a majority in the state House and solidifying Republican control of the state Senate is a good goal and one I'm happy that I'll be on the front lines of pursuing. Indeed, the job feels like a calling to me. It also feels like a natural progression for me as more than five years ago I combined my interest in politics and state-level policy issues with my 15 years of experience in journalism to create BillHobbs.com, a blog that went on to impact policy debates at the state level and help usher in a new era of citizen bloggers watchdogging state government and politicians in Tennessee.

Tennessee has one of the most robust political blogospheres of any state in the country, and I look forward to now applying my more two decades of combined experience as a reporter and editor, in media relations and with blogs and the new social media, along with my political knowledge and policy involvement on behalf of that goal.

I start on Oct. 29.