Tennessee’s Other Southern Appalachian Democrat

By Kleinheider Posted on August 20, 2008 at 10:11 am

Mike Padgett’s former campaign manager and the operative behind the 2006 slaying of incumbent state Senator Don McLeary, Jed Brewer, has started a blog.

In his introductory post Brewer discusses Tennessee Fourth Grand Division:

However, one of the areas that I felt we, as a campaign, excelled at was in new media world. I once heard someone say that the internet was soon going to be Tennessee’s fourth grand division. I think it has transformed into that…now the jury is still out as to the effect it has with the average voter in Tennessee. I think it is an excellent tool to communicate with activists, donors and the younger generation today. However, I still don’t think it has the effect on the average voter that direct mail, radio or TV has. Anyways, back to my point…personally, I believe that our on-line presence was top notch. It was an area that Mike and our team put a lot of time and effort into. We had a daily online journal, twittered quite often about, posted (most) news releases and policy statements the day they went out as well as just having a good overall website (no i didn’t design it myself). In addition, we got a lot of good traffic with the blog community. Mike and I both got to meet and know several bloggers out there during the course of the campaign…and its this that has brought me to where I am now…sitting at my kitchen table at 1am starting my own blog…because i feel that, “there’s still so much to be done,” or said.

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