From Talking Points Memo : RNC Chief Ken Mehlman accepted political contributions from gay porn king? Last week, you'll remember, the RNC, headed by Ken Mehlman, was running that race-baiting 'bimbo' ad against Rep. Harold Ford (D) down in Tennessee. One of the barbs in [...]
October, 2006
Corker Takes Money from Gay Porn Producer
Monday, October 30th, 2006Corker Pays Way Out of Lawsuit
Saturday, October 28th, 2006From The Associated Press: A secret settlement in an environmental lawsuit that Republican U.S. Senate nominee Bob Corker has tried to avoid talking about before Election Day possibly involves a $775,000 land purchase for an environmental group, county records indicate. Attorneys [...]
Ketron Slapped With Ethics Complaint
Thursday, October 26th, 2006From WKRN: A Smyrna resident filed a complaint with [the] Tennessee Registry of Election Finance this week against Sen. Bill Ketron, saying that the Murfreesboro Republican failed to disclose the occupation and employer of his campaign contributors -- a new ethics requirement. Out of 184 individual contributors he listed in his most recent [...]
White House Press Secretary Questions Corker's Honesty
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006From MSNBC: With their majority in the Senate potentially hanging in the balance, Republicans were bickering among themselves over an advertisement in the particularly nasty campaign in Tennessee that even some Republicans have denounced as racist. The dispute pitted former Chattanooga Mayor Bob Corker [...]
Not Your Daddy's Democrat
Sunday, October 22nd, 2006From Newsweek: The sun is just rising over Chattanooga when Harold Ford Jr. begins to pray. A young African-American congressman from Memphis, Ford is running as the Democratic candidate for Senate in Tennessee. Here, in the shadow of Lookout Mountain, an audience of 300 has come out of the [...]
Taxpayers 'Not Ketron's Campaign ATM'
Friday, October 20th, 2006COLUMBIA – Declaring that the “taxpayers of District 13 aren’t Bill Ketron’s campaign ATM,” State Senate challenger Vince Springer has demanded that Ketron stop using his district legislative office, for which he receives $1,000 a month in taxpayer funds, [...]
Bryson Dodges Eviction
Wednesday, October 18th, 2006NASHVILLE -- Jim Bryson and his consulting firm, 20/20 Research Inc., were served with eviction papers by their landlord for failure to pay rent. Bryson claims he’s a successful businessman, but history shows he can [...]
Tennesseans Can't Afford to Give Corker Another Chance to Raise Taxes
Tuesday, October 17th, 2006NASHVILLE – Bob Corker was Governor Don Sundquist’s finance commissioner. Did Mr. Corker advise Governor Sundquist to impose a state income tax on Tennesseans? Did he advise him not to? One thing [...]
Bryson Has Financial Ties to Special Interests
Monday, October 16th, 2006From News Channel 5: Nashville -- Operation Tennessee Waltz has become an issue in the governor's race, with Jim Bryson questioning how Phil Bredesen has handled ethics issues over the last four years. But could one of Bryson's attacks come back to [...]
Conservative Cagle Endorses Ford
Thursday, October 12th, 2006From Metro Pulse: Turned on the radio the other day: “Welcome to the Excellence in Broadcasting network, this is El Rushbo here. Well, I’m sure you’ve seen the Washington Post story by now. A group of Girl Scouts on a White House tour yesterday stumbled into the Oval Office and found President Bush en flagrante [...]
Corker Hands Pension Funds to Questionable Business Partner
Wednesday, October 11th, 2006From the Knoxville News Sentinel: CHATTANOOGA - As a private investor, Bob Corker lost more than $1 million in a speculative Internet venture he shared with Delta Capital Management, a Memphis investment firm. Undeterred, Corker courted Delta when he became Chattanooga's mayor, opening a door that allowed the firm [...]
GOP Turns in Bogus Voter Registration Forms
Monday, October 9th, 2006From the Tennessean: NASHVILLE -- A canvassing group hired by the Republican National Committee is responsible for 12 potentially phony voter-registration forms found in Davidson and Williamson Counties, election officials said Friday. Liberty Consultants also worked in Rutherford County, where the elections administrator said he [...]
Beavers Misleading Public About TBI Investigation
Saturday, October 7th, 2006NASHVILLE – Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Bob Tuke on Thursday released internal communications between the district attorneys involved in a 2002 Tennessee Bureau of Investigation inquiry into the residency of State [...]
Bryson Twists Truth on Outdoor Activities
Thursday, October 5th, 2006From the Knoxville News Sentinel: NASHVILLE - Though describing himself as a hunter and fisherman during a Knoxville debate, records show that Republican gubernatorial nominee Jim Bryson has never held a hunting or fishing license in either Tennessee or his native [...]
Bredesen, Ford Polling Strong
Wednesday, October 4th, 2006NASHVILLE -- With just over two weeks until the beginning of early voting, two recently released independent polls show Harold Ford, Jr. is in a dead heat in his race for the U.S. Senate and Governor Phil Bredesen continues to [...]
