Eric Stansell Voted Republican In 1992

By Kleinheider Posted on July 2, 2008 at 8:24 am

That is the accusation leveled at the 52nd House District candidate in an article about campaign fundraising:

Stewart and his campaign manager, Elizabeth M-K Sullivan, are on the offensive, providing The City Paper with an analysis of Stansell’s voting records from 1991 to 2004 while he was registered in McMinn County. Stewart’s campaign contends that Stansell did not vote in numerous elections, including the 1996 and 2000 presidential primaries, and that Stansell voted Republican in the 1992 presidential primary.

Stansell was in school earning his B.A., M.B.A. and law degree from the University of Tennessee from 1992 to 2001, and he voted whenever he could, he said. Some of that time he was overseas, including during the 1996 primary when he was studying at The University of Oxford in England. When he voted Republican in the 1992 presidential primary, he was a senior in high school.

“My parents were both Democrats, and it was my way of rebelling, I guess,” he said, adding, “To be honest, if that’s the best they have, I’m in great shape. I think that really shows more than anything else that I went to college, and, the more I’ve learned, the more progressive I’ve gotten. I think you want a representative who learns and can be taught. I just think it’s not an issue ultimately. If they want to make it an issue, that’s fine. That’s easily defensible.”

Hmmm. Rebelling. Like a peasants with a pitchforks type rebelling?

Either way, it is very interesting that in a story reporting Mike Stewart’s fundraising advantage that the campaign manager for Stewart feels the need to go negative on Stansell. With those kind of money numbers why even acknowledge the opposition? Has all that Waller money bought Stewart a poll showing something not so favorable?

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