McWherter All About Business

By Kleinheider Posted on July 17, 2009 at 8:40 am

Newscoma reviews a campaign appearance by Mike McWherter and Roy Herron out in Northwest Tennessee:

McWherter took the mic first and spoke for a few minutes. His speech was more about treating the state as a business when it comes to trying to recover lost jobs and creating new ones. One comment he made that resonated with the crowd was regarding a story about how he had gotten lost in Oak Ridge and how a man (an archaeologist) at a hotel helped him find where he was going recently by taking him where he needed to be. “I went back to thank that man the next day and he was already out in the field,” McWherter said. “I don’t know if he was a republican or a democrat, but I do know that we are Tennesseans at heart.”

Remember, this is blue dog country so speaking of overcoming partisan lines (although sometimes tiresome) does grab the attention here. And party lines are shifting a bit in the land of Hoots and the outlying area due to the recession.

It was a good move on McWherter’s part.

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