Blame Canada

By Kleinheider Posted on October 14, 2008 at 10:43 am

The TNGOP, as well as the Ken Yager for Senate campaign, strike back about a direct mail piece making the rounds calling out Yager for going to Canada:

What Ruppe doesn’t say is that Yager traveled to Toronto in 2004 to recruit businesses to Roane County on a trade mission sponsored by a member of Democratic Governor Phil Bredesen’s administration, Tennessee’s Commissioner of Economic and Community Development, Matt Kisber. Yager made the trip with the president of the Oak Ridge Economic Partnership and 40 other economic development representatives from Tennessee including city and county mayors. (The Oak Ridger, September 28, 2004)

“Ken Yager spent his 24 years as Roane County Executive working to bring good jobs to the area,” said Yager campaign manager Robert Kuykendall. “Apparently, Becky Ruppe does not believe that recruiting these jobs is time well spent for a county executive.”

Seee the full mail piece at this link.

The Democratic response courtesy of Mark Brown:

“Ken Yager believes that “economic development” means wasting taxpayer money on luxury hotels and meals at Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse and Morton’s. Most Tennesseans believe that economic development is about hard work and communication, not living high on the hog on the taxpayer’s dime.”

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