Mayor Shines Brightly On Legislative Candidate In Mailer

By Kleinheider Posted on August 7, 2008 at 12:53 pm

Post Politics has obtained a mailer sent out to targeted voters in the 52nd state house district this past Monday and paid for by the Committee to Elect Mike Stewart featuring what would seem to be an explicit endorsement of the candidacy of Mike Stewart by Mayor Karl Dean.

“Mike has been a friend of mine for a long time. He will make a great public servant.”

Reached for comment Janel Lacey, Press Secretary for the Mayor, confirmed the quote was authentic and used with permission but did not respond to whether the words on the mailer amounted to an endorsement.

Karl Dean, as well as his wife Anne Davis, had been revealed last month as financial backers of the campaign. Stewart’s opponent, Eric Stansell, received a donation from Dean’s runoff opponent in the Mayor’s race, former Congressman Bob Clement.

Stewart faces Stansell today in the Democratic primary for state house in the 52 District.

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Leatherwood’s Pockets Get Fatter

By Kleinheider Posted on August 1, 2008 at 3:53 pm

But so does Marsha Blackburn’s warchest:

Tom Leatherwood has reported a dramatic fundraising increase. He’s running against incumbent Marsha Blackburn in the Republican Primary for the seventh Congressional district. Leatherwood raised more than $33,000 in the month of July. That’s almost half as much as he reported for the entire second quarter.

Still, it’s $10,000 less than Blackburn raised in the same month, and war chest is much larger. She has more than $550,000 in cash on hand. Leatherwood has about $30,000 dollars to spend. His campaign has gone $41,000 in debt. Blackburn’s is still solvent, despite spending more than a million dollars so far.

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The Tennessee Democratic U.S. Senate Primary

By Kleinheider Posted on July 18, 2008 at 7:30 am

Chris Sanders asserts the race, covered mostly in the blogosphere, will be a test, on a small scale, of the role of money in politics:

If it weren’t for blogs, I’m not sure anyone would be paying attention to the primary. In the end, I think nothing overwhelmingly positive or negative stuck to either candidate in the public’s imagination. So we are left with Bob Tuke’s fundraising advantage and Mike Padgett’s concerted effort to be everywhere.

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Justice Is Blind

By Kleinheider Posted on May 20, 2008 at 11:38 am

As a bat. Michael Silence reports that a federal appeals court says paper money discriminates against blind people.

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Tags: Blind, Butchie can do it why can't you, discrimination, federal appeals court, justice, Money