Paid Lobbyists, Used Car Salesman, Career Pols And The Race To Unseat Lamar

By Kleinheider Posted on July 7, 2008 at 8:13 am

Tom Humphrey gets the Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate, who have been running relatively positive campaigns against one another so far, to dish a bit on their true feelings about their opponents:

Kenneth Eaton proclaims that his experience as a successful businessman makes him the candidate best qualified to serve as a senator. But one of his opponents, Bob Tuke, labels Eaton as “a used car salesman.”

Tuke, in turn, declares that his “varied life experience” - ranging from service as a U.S. Marine officer in Vietnam to work as a lawyer in rewriting state adoption laws - makes him the best candidate. Eaton refers to Tuke as “a paid lobbyist.”

Mike Padgett, former Knox County clerk, says he is the only one of the three to hold elective office and won in a predominantly Republican area. That, he says, gives him the experience needed to take on Alexander in November.

Eaton and Tuke, however, call Padgett a career politician.

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