Posted in Hawkins County, Tennessee on Aug 1st, 2008
Much ado has been made over Marsha Blackburn shelling out campaign dough to her daughter for whatever work her daughter performed on behalf of the campaign. Perhaps hoping to avoid the same political pitfall, Mike Faulk announced last week his daughter, Katherine, would be serving as his campaign Finance Director.
This allowed [...]
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Posted in Tennessee, The South on Jul 7th, 2008
Once again, the Times-News serves as an arena for the knock-down drag-out fight between Republican 1st District Congressional Candidates Phil Roe and David Davis.
Roe, Johnson City’s mayor, said Davis wanted earmark reform during his 2006 campaign but reversed position.
“Well, he did. He either changed his mind or something, but he did,” Roe said of [...]
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Posted in David Davis, Tennessee, US on Jun 8th, 2008
Michael Owens at Tricities.com reports that U.S. Rep. David Davis, R-Tenn., is this election season’s leading congressional recipient of donations from a billion-dollar global defense contractor accused of bribing Saudi officials with call girls and money.
BAE System’s $11,000 worth of donations to Davis began trickling into his campaign fund after he requested $4.4 million in [...]
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Go read Kleinheider to find out why blogger David Oatney translated a less-than-20-word statement on a mailer sent out by Senator Mike Williams into a 171-word rant, which puts quite a few words in the Senator’s mouth.
And I’ve got to tell you: as a district voter, I take offense.
It is one thing to point [...]
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