Shut The Buck Up

By Kleinheider Posted on July 21, 2008 at 7:31 am

Retiring Rep. Frank Buck insists he told Governor Bredesen about rumors of malfeasance by Senator John Ford in 2003:

Asked about Buck’s assertion before the trial, Bredesen said he had no knowledge of Ford’s financial ties to the contractors. He reiterated that during the trial, when he testified about a conversation with Ford over entrusting care of more TennCare recipients to one of the companies Ford was consulting for.

In his testimony, Bredesen said he would have reported Ford to the authorities had he known that the former senator was benefiting financially from the TennCare contractor.

Asked in an e-mail Friday about Buck’s claims, Bredesen spokeswoman Lydia Lenker responded that “the governor has said what he knows.”

“He has said all he is going to say on this matter,” Lenker wrote.

Buck remains adamant about telling the governor, saying that Bredesen got “jailhouse religion” about ethics only after the Tennessee Waltz scandal broke.

“He got religion after the scandal hit,” he said.

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Tags: Frank Buck, John Ford, Phil Bredesen, Tennessee Waltz  

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