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Just A Fancy Word For Defining Yourself Before Your Opponents Paint You As A Rich Daddy’s Boy

By Kleinheider Posted on March 31, 2009 at 10:04 am

Bill Haslam’s gubernatorial campaign has rolled out its full featured website recently and, despite the annoying ploy to get your information before you get to enter the main site, it’s a nice piece of business.

What I enjoyed most of all was the above video. The just under two minute piece features Haslam’s wife Crissy giving the audience a run down on who her husband is. Here’s her description of Haslam’s early work experience after college.

“He went to work with his dad and brother at Pilot Travel Centers. Which is really just a fancy word for truck stops. And they weren’t too fancy in those days. They just had some convenience stores when Bill started. He was president for eighteen years and when he left they had over 250 truck stops.”

Well played. In an economy where wealth, especially handed down wealth, will be a serious weakness this ad paints the privileged Haslam in the best possible light.

The question is: Will it work? Can Ingram and Co. paint Haslam as a hardworking regular-guy, family businessman before Ramsey and Wamp try and pigeonhole him as a posterboy for affluence and privilege who worked once on Wall Street?

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8 Responses to “Just A Fancy Word For Defining Yourself Before Your Opponents Paint You As A Rich Daddy’s Boy”

  1. R. Neal writes
    March 31st, 2009 11:30 am

    I don’t know about all that, but when I go to that site, Vista pops up a UAC warning saying it needs permission to continue and that the message is intended to “help prevent unauthorized changes to your computer.”

  2. common sense writes
    March 31st, 2009 11:34 am

    So, his Daddy got him a job at the truck stop and that means we should ignore the millions of dollars of tax breaks that his daddy got by lobbying the legislature and buying votes.

    OK… and also, there’s a bridge for sale in Alaska that I’d like to talk with you about…

  3. common sense writes
    March 31st, 2009 11:34 am

    ooh… cookies and spyware! Yes we can!

  4. King of the World!!!! writes
    March 31st, 2009 11:36 am

    is Bill on an ocean liner while they’re filming his front page video? i’m getting seasick…

  5. Jason W. writes
    March 31st, 2009 12:07 pm

    Why does he already have his wife speaking for him???

  6. Tom Paine writes
    March 31st, 2009 12:18 pm

    So, Ramsey and Wamp were all for a rich daddy’s boy running for president eight years ago, but what’s good enough for the good ‘ol U.S. of A. isn’t a high enough standard for the state of Tennessee?

    The intellectual agility on that argument is pretty high.

  7. Todd Duncan writes
    March 31st, 2009 1:30 pm

    What is really hilarious is his wife tries to make it sound like Bill had something to do with Pilot growing… Everybody knows his brother Jimmy wears the pants in that family. They let Bill stock the shelves full of his favorite candy.

    Then, they got the brilliant idea to push him into politics. Save us all…

  8. DADvocate writes
    March 31st, 2009 3:05 pm

    I’ve never met Haslam or anyone in his family. I started riding my bike to Pilot stations for a Coke when I 12 or 13. They’ve always been good place to patronize.

    When Haslam first ran for mayor of Knoxville, the liberals members of my family opposed him (although none actually lived within the city of Knoxville). Talking to two of them together, I asked them why. “Because he’s rich,” was the response in unison. The usual class hatred of the liberals/leftists.

    And, as Tom Paine, points out, they only hate wealthy conservatives. So why don’t they just give up the “he/she/their rich meme”? Maybe because promoting hate is easier than dealing with the truth.

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