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His Problem Is With The System, Not Haslam

By Kleinheider Posted on July 20, 2009 at 7:14 am

Brian Hornback has a beef with the size of Bill Haslam’s average contribution to his gubernatorial campaign:

In this economy, how many citizens can afford to give the Knoxville Mayor $1,004.91? How many employees of the gas gouging fuel retailer can afford to give him $1,004.91? Surely, the employees of the corporate office can and have contributed but not a majority of the gas gouging fuel retailers employees.

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2 Responses to “His Problem Is With The System, Not Haslam”

  1. BH writes
    July 20th, 2009 2:15 pm

    NO. AC you got it wrong, Brother. My problem is with the fact that the Knoxville Mayor and his lifestyle has NEVER experienced what I and 99.9% of Tennesseans experience every day. Gibbons is a man that was raised in poverty. Wamp and Ramsey are guys that founght their way to where they are today.

    I guess we can blame Billy. He can’t help it that he was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. But I want a Governor that knows what it is to work for all they have.

    Thanks for asking.

  2. vandyfan writes
    July 20th, 2009 4:55 pm

    Brian Hornback, you might be right about Bill Haslam being rich, but I read the rest of your article, and you are crazy if you give any serious consideration of the straw poll in Davidson County last week. I was there, and I saw the home-schooled family from Williamson county of Zach Wamp’s Williamson County chairman (a really nice guy), and all 6 of his little kids voted. So presumably, 8 of the 58 votes for Zach Wamp came from that family alone. It also looked like the majority of all 4 campaign staffs were there, and there were people in line to vote who were wearing “I voted” stickers already. I would love to know how they got to vote twice.

    I say all of that to say straw polls are dumb, and aren’t indicative of anything. I was following the logic of your article until I got to that paragraph. To say that 5 out of 6 Republicans don’t like Mayor Haslam because 5 out of 6 voters at the Davidson County picnic didn’t vote for him is just silly. Especially when those “voters” are double-voting, are little kids, and are campaign staff members.

    Is it true that he has contributions from 2/3 of the counties like you say? How many counties have contributed to the other candidates? Does anyone know?

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