The Outliers

By Kleinheider Posted on March 11, 2009 at 7:04 am

Jackson Baker discusses two gubernatorial candidates on either side of the aisle. One, a Democrat, who supports gay adoption and doesn’t go running and screaming from the word socialism, and the other a Republican who talks about raising gas taxes and wants to see Tennessee reclaim its sovereignty:

Where Wamp sounds most different from other candidates, though, is on issues like state sovereignty and immigration.

The federal government is “upside down,” revenue-wise, he says. Consequently, “The states need to start learning to say no to Washington, and we’re not going to give you our money. We’re going to have to almost establish the sovereignty of the state of Tennessee under the 10th amendment. We’re going to do XYZ and we want to go forward more on our own. We’re going to raise the money for it, and we don’t want your help, and we don’t want your mandates.”

Wamp would attempt to “close our borders” to illegal immigrants. How? By employing the Department of Homeland Security’s E-Verify system to identify illegals and to “make sure illegal immigrant parents do not have a job.” That would ultimately spare the state the expense of providing education and health care to such migrants.

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Tags: 2010 Governor's race, Ward Cammack, Zach Wamp  

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