Follow-up to Don't disenfranchise me!:

After a growing buzz online and on the streets, FL Dems have mixed feelings on the DNC proposal of caucuses as a resolution to the delegate debacle from our primary. While the FL Chair says no, I have been contacted by more than one grassroots organizer seeking support for a push for caucuses here. If FL delegates are to be seated, the DNC appears to be signaling that caucuses are the only way.

I couldn't agree more.

UPDATE: Florida Kossacks writes "Let's amend our delegate selection plan to allocate our delegates based on a caucus to be held in early April."

Florida Dems Hope Against Hope

Several student contributors to the Tennessee Journalist have put together a rather impressive package of images and audio relating to the downtown fire. Photo enthusiast are invited to comment on these great shots over at tnjn.com!

A final goodbye to BJ
Your two dear children and your husband will always be in our prayers.
Godspeed, Jake.

I asked if we could postpone this thing (her death) until after G’s birthday, he didn’t think so. Five days would be a long time. --AtomicTumor

Catch up on things over at AT's blog

a sad update...She is brain dead. November 17, 2006. --AT

I haven't seen it mentioned here, so here goes:

The Schree Pettigrew campaign and the Knox County Democrats will be gathering tonight at 8 pm at Rothchilds Catering at 8807 Kingston Pike.

Democrats are invited to come out an join us in watching the returns come back!

Pollster.com is reporting that a new(11/4) Rasmussen poll of likely voters, which gives us a better snapshot than the Mason-Dixon of registered voters, has Ford is at 47% and Corker is at 51%.

This is a notable difference from the Mason-Dixon registered voters poll, where Corker is up by 12.

Most of the bloggers in east Tennessee know, or know of, the fine people over at AtomicTumor.com. I've been reading the latest updates this morning and things aren't looking good for GAC (AT's spouse). Please take a minute and stop over to offer support to AT during this difficult time.

Final

Courthouse: 4230
Metro Village: 2451
Chapman Ford: 5214
Halls: 9111
East Town: 10441
Downtown West: 21041
Farragut: 12565
UNIVERSITY CENTER: 2242
Expo Center: 2997

Early Voting Total: 70292

*Knox County Election Commission

Governor Bredesen spent the afternoon campaigning with Schree Pettigrew, our candidate for House District 18. The day ended with a nice cup of soup (...I had ice cream) at a little shop in the Cedar Bluff neighborhood. Thanks to everyone who came out to support Pettigrew and Gov. Bredesen!

11-01

Courthouse: 450
Metro Village: 265
Chapman Ford: 522
Halls: 944
East Town: 1039
Downtown West: 2317
Farragut: 1388
UNIVERSITY CENTER: 687
Expo Center: 921

Daily Total: 8533

Early Voting Total: 58796

*Knox County Election Commission

10-31

Courthouse: 459
Metro Village: 345
Chapman Ford: 513
Halls: 842
East Town: 1006
Downtown West: 2003
Farragut: 1153
UNIVERSITY CENTER: 649
Expo Center: 901

Daily Total: 7871

Early Voting Total: 50264

*Knox County Election Commission

10-30

Courthouse: 463
Metro Village: 223
Chapman Ford: 397
Halls: 793
East Town: 950
Downtown West: 1818
Farragut: 1118

Daily Total: 5762

Early Voting Total: 42394

*Knox County Election Commission

Schree Pettigrew has been running a great campaign against Stacey Campfield. She has obviously learned from the mistakes republican Drinnen made in the primary. Drinnen didn't talk about Campfield or his record --Schree is.

While I am no fan of all negative, all the time, this is a very affective approach on the part of Pettigrew. Taking Campfield to task on this and other things is part of what will win this race for Pettigrew.

After watching the video, Campfield would have us believe that Eatherly just leased a house from him.

1) The house that Eatherly was registered at was Campfields primary residence in District 18.

2) Either Campfield is telling the truth about the sex offender and he lived outside of the district he was elected to represent or

3) the sex offender lived under the same roof as Campfield.

For those who say that Campfield was just trying to help in a Christian way, Campfield had this to say: "I can't have that. And I kicked him out." ...only when the story was being reported in the media.

Furthermore, why did the two share another address previously? It should also be asked how much Mr. Eatherly helped when campaigning with Campfield during the last election.

10-27 + 10-28

Courthouse: 314
Metro Village: 316
Chapman Ford: 566
Halls: 1188
East Town: 1388
Downtown West: 2754
Farragut: 1652

Daily Total: 8178

Early Voting Total: 36632

*Knox County Election Commission

10-26

Courthouse: 318
Metro Village: 161
Chapman Ford: 410
Halls: 704
East Town: 774
Downtown West: 1460
Farragut: 907

Daily Total: 4734

Early Voting Total:28454

*Knox County Election Commission

10-25

Courthouse: 341
Metro Village: 150
Chapman Ford: 339
Halls: 700
East Town: 711
Downtown West: 1369
Farragut: 925

Daily Total: 4535

Early Voting Total:23719

*Knox County Election Commission

Anyone interested in hearing Congressman Davis speak tonight is invited to attend!
Via UTK Democrats:

October 25 – UTK Democrats Meeting – We will have our meeting at 7:00 p.m. in the Law School Room 135. U.S. Rep. Lincoln Davis will be our special guest at this meeting! Come hear him speak and have some pizza!

10-24

Courthouse: 252
Metro Village: 108
Chapman Ford: 357
Halls: 710
East Town: 732
Downtown West: 1411
Farragut: 882

Daily Total: 4452

Early Voting Total:19182

*Knox County Election Commission

The video isn't from the greatest of angles, but you do get great shots of the crowd. I'm working on getting the Congressman Davis video from the rally uploaded too.

More video after the jump...

10-23

Courthouse: 209
Metro Village: 80
Chapman Ford: 296
Halls: 518
East Town: 618
Downtown West: 1141
Farragut: 777

Daily Total: 3639

Early Voting Total:14729

*Knox County Election Commission

It dominates the weekend news cycle all across the state; Today, Ford's "taking Corker to the mattresses" over Iraq hits the Situation Room in the much valued 4pm time slot. Ford also steals the cover of Newsweek.

Looks like the Charlie Daniel, over at KnoxNews.com likes to have a little fun with the candidates!

Saturday:More on this Story from WVLT. This was absolutely a smart idea. All weekend, media outlets across the state have been talking about this toe to toe with the short man; CNN even had the confrontation video on their front page for most of the day. There were all talking about THIS instead of what Corker's press conference was about.

WMCTV Complete Story on YouTube

WMCTV moved the video!

UPDATE: WMCTV moved the video here....

wmctv.com:
News reporters were surprised when Ford's tour bus pulled up at the event and, apparently staff at Wilson Air were surprised as well, as they tried to steer media inside the property for the Corker news conference.

Corker instead, opted to come out and talk with Ford directly while the cameras were rolling. What followed was a tense confrontation between the two, caught on tape!

VolunteerVoters has more with links to more press on the confrontation.

In closing...as Corker whines for his microphone, lets re-listen to an interview Ford gave G Reynolds earlier this year. Then rewatch the video. You have Bobby "This is my press conference" Corker whining about "family matters" which is a stark contrast to Ford sharing informed ideas and thought on Iraq, energy and politics.

Boo! It is getting close to Halloween, right?

The League of Women Voters held their candidate forum today. Candidates from other local house seats attended, along with Schree Pettigrew who is running for the 18th district. Campfield, the Republican incumbent and Schree's opponent, was invited and reportedly confirmed with a tentative response that he may come.

He didn't. Again, missing the chance to debate Pettigrew before a live group of voters.

No one can ding Campfield for not showing, he didn't say for sure he was coming. BUT, given the results of the last debate, one would think he would be beating down the doors to debate Schree before a live audience of voters.

So not only has Campfield avoided the first scheduled debate by claiming confusion and trickery, he altogether dismissed the chance to discuss the issues with Pettigrew at the League of Women Voters candidate forum.

If he wasn't interested in the debate, why he would post this on his blog:

Just FYI I am open to a makeup debate with my opponent/opponents almost any time previous to early voting. Just call when you feel froggy. Nuff said.

I guess debating in front of College kids is different than doing the same in front of constituent voters.

sorry for the double post, was editing when bill posted! SORRY BILL!

State Rep. Stacey Campfield has long said he wouldn't accept PAC (Political Action Committee) contributions; he just posted it again on his website blogspot account.

So, has he accepted PAC cash? Lets take a look and see.

Not directly. Instead, The Tennessee Republican Caucus continues to redirect tens of thousands of dollars in PAC contributions to Campfield. Here are the numbers up to the end of the last reporting period:

State Rep. Kelsey - $100 on 7-2-2006
State Rep. Casada - $250 on 5-1-2006
State Rep. Clem - $500 on 6-30-2006
State Sen. Beavers - $1000 on 6-28-2006
State Sen. Beavers - $1000 on 9-29-2006
State Rep. Dunn - $100 on 6-29-2006
State Rep. Dunn - $500 on 9-27-2006
State Rep. Dunn - $1000 on 9-27-2006
State Rep. Davis - $500 on 6-5-2006
Tennessee House Republicans Caucus - $5384 on 9-28-2006
Tennessee House Republicans Caucus - $5850 on 9-25-2006
Tennessee House Republicans Caucus - $5384 on 9-25-2006

Each and everyone one of these Republican contributors took PAC Cash and then gave a contribution to Stacey Campfield. Campfield is claiming he hasn't taken any, and he has. He is claiming this PAC FREE status so he can appear 'above it' when debating the issue with Pettigrew, who has been successful in funding her campaign to beat Campfield.

In truth, Stacey Campfield is deceiving people about not accepting PAC cash. This list shows that there was a concerted effort to get that PAC cash to him. I think we'll coin a new term for him: PAC-CASH-by-proxy. Yeah, it is a mental illness, you know, like munchausen.

It is time to stop Stacey Campfield.

The two candidates for the 18th House District will be on The Voice, WLLZ 1180AM/WKCE 1120AM tomorrow from 9-10 am. Listen Live here. Call in your questions during the show to 865-546-2148.

UPDATE: Check out the other spot too!

Schree's campaign has a new TV spot out! Enjoy the youtube google video.

For the life of me, I can't see how campfield could be against pre-k.

The UT College Republicans and College Democrats set up a debate between State Representative Stacy Campfield and challenger candidate Schree Pettigrew that was supposed to be today at 7:00 p.m.

I left at 7:30, and Rep. Campfield hadn't arrived. The buzz around the room was that he had a last minute scheduling conflict. Eh, it happens I guess.

Personally, I think he didn't want to get whipped again. His ego was surely bruised from the WATE Gene Patterson interview. Or, perhaps he thought this fellow was going to be a panelist? Who knows. In the end (at 7:30, for me) he was no where to be seen. Curiously, neither were the College Republicans.

I noticed a couple pretty decent reporters there (you know who you are); maybe they'll be writing on this as well.

Update: corrected Mr. Patterson's name

Snuck off for lunch today and found the Congressman doing an Interview with CNN's Joe Johns at Market Square! ...read more over at the College Democrats website.

UPDATE:The Ford camp emailed in to say that this interview should air tomorrow evening. They didn't specify show or time though.

I found this on Schree's website:

10/9--Candidate Debate

From 7-8pm in room 32 of the Alumni Memorial Building, the College Democrats and College Republicans will be co-sponsoring a debate between Campfield and Pettigrew.

This should certainly be an interesting debate!