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If The Candidates Are The Pawns In This Game, What Are We?

By Kleinheider Posted on October 15, 2008 at 8:07 am

Andy Sher rifles through the campaign finance reports from the 12th District state Senate race:

Between July 29 and Sept. 30, Tennessee trial lawyers poured $15,000 through their political action committee into Democrat Becky Ruppe’s primary and general election campaigns, according to records filed this week with the Tennessee Registry of Election Finance.

Physicians, meanwhile, who are often at odds with trial lawyers in the legislature, gave $2,000 through their PAC to Republican Ken Yager. Records show $1,000 came from the Tennessee Group Practice Coalition PAC and $500 from the Tennessee Hospital Association. Some health care professionals also gave money, records show.

The third-quarter reports show that Mr. Yager collected some $67,000 in the latest period and had $177,000 in cash on hand. Ms. Ruppe raised nearly $76,000 and had $114,500 on hand.

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2 Responses to “If The Candidates Are The Pawns In This Game, What Are We?”

  1. CntryGrrl writes
    October 15th, 2008 1:26 pm

    Lets face it- Becky Ruppe has been bought and paid for by the labor unions and the trial lawyers. The very people that want to take money from the people that work hard and earn it and give it to the lazy. Slip and fall lawyers take money from people that have to work just to keep their family fed and give it to people that dont know an honest days work. Labor unions want “living wages” but dont understand that if this is passed, their members wont be able to make a living because they will be fired. Companies wont be able to afford to keep so many employees so they will cut jobs and benefits, leaving more people unemployed and looking for work. Is this what we need in a recession? No. But that’s what Becky Ruppe will vote for.

  2. Matthew writes
    October 21st, 2008 7:15 pm

    Hey Girl… there you are again!
    Dang baby you are all over this…. Like I said BITTER????

    I dont belong to a union, because the factory where I work threatened to close if we started one… so they pay us nothing, working in crappy enviroment and the owners get rich off of our sweat!

    Girl you need to get a life and find you a job!

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