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| Breitbart Goes ‘Old Hickory’ in Tennessee, Gets 2 Establishment Scalps |
| 2017-10-09 |
| [BREITBART] In three short weeks Breitbart News reporting drove two of the three leading establishment Republicans in Tennessee out of the state’s 2018 U.S. Senate race. First up was incumbent Senator Bob Corker (R-TN), who made a surprise announcement on September 26 he would not run for re-election, one day after a Breitbart News report about his sweetheart deal in an Alabama retail center development in which Alabama taxpayers are set to pay him more than $3 million over 20 years in sales tax incentive rebates. Though his announcement that he would not seek re-election was couched in terms that claimed it had been made "[a]fter much thought, consideration and family discussion over the past year," its suddenness‐and the fact that Corker felt compelled to offer a lame and incomplete explanation for his investment in a deal that epitomizes the swamp in which the political elite thrive‐underscores the potency of the Breitbart News report. Then came Gov. Bill Haslam, like Corker a "moderate" establishment Republican from East Tennessee. With Corker out of the race, all eyes turned to the scion of the wealthy Haslam family, whose personal $2.5 billion net worth derives from his inherited ownership interest in the Pilot Flying J national truck stop chain. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 TW, back in '65 I lived in the NYC metro area and William F Buckley was running and when asked what his first thing to do if he won said "Demand a recount." I think Insty would reprise that attitude. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2017-10-09 19:04 |
| #8 Only yesterday Instapundit posted the following: LAURENCE JARVIK SENDS THIS LINK WITH THE COMMENT, “RUN, GLENN, RUN!” Breitbart Goes ‘Old Hickory’ in Tennessee, Gets 2 Establishment Scalps. I don’t think so. I doubt I’d get elected — but if I did, that would be even worse! |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-10-09 14:09 |
| #7 Corker unloaded on Trump over the weekend. Talk about a woman scorned. |
| Posted by: Iblis 2017-10-09 11:21 |
| #6 I'm East Tennessee and I'm voting for Blackburn. It doesn't surprise me that Haslam is not running. He has been a fairly good governor. |
| Posted by: Deacon Blues 2017-10-09 10:15 |
| #5 Glenn Reynolds might be a good possibility--he's a real constitutional lawyer. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-10-09 10:01 |
| #4 If the Haslam-Corker-Alexander troika has committed millions of dollars to Fincher instead of Marsha Blackburn, that is a good reason to consider Candidate Marsha Blackburn. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2017-10-09 09:58 |
| #3 East Tennessee is Insta Pundit's home turf. Maybe we should start a campaign to get him to run. 8^) |
| Posted by: AlanC 2017-10-09 09:39 |
| #2 Warren Buffett to acquire majority stake in Pilot Flying J |
| Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2017-10-09 09:12 |
| #1 Flyover country suddenly becomes important to those who thought it was all sewed up... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2017-10-09 00:23 |