Fri
Jul 2 2010
01:55 pm
Mike Works for the working people of Tennessee
By: R. Neal

Earlier in the week, Mike McWherter announced a Mike Works! tour to "broaden my perspective on the issues facing Tennessee’s working families and small business owners."

McWherter said "the next governor will have to examine every angle if he wants to get Tennesseans back to work, and I realized the best way to accomplish that was to roll up my sleeves and go to work alongside folks I meet along the campaign trail."

He started his tour "on a hot afternoon at an old Kroger building in Spring Hill," and since then he has "worked with waiters, lumberjacks, carpenters, manufacturers, building assessors, auto mechanics and dish washers."

"I’ve spent the last month shoveling mulch, installing air conditioning units, changing oil, rotating tires, assembling furniture, clearing tables, washing dishes, loading inventory and planting bushes. Along with some aches and pains in muscles I never knew I had, I’ve gained a valuable perspective on the needs of Tennessee workers and employers," said McWherter.

According to RoaneViews, McWherter was scheduled to work as a busboy at a local restaurant in Kingston today. (Update: confirmed sighting.)

This is pretty effective campaigning if you ask me. While the Republican candidates are hobnobbing with celebrities and rich folks to raise millions of dollars, Mike Works!

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bizgrrl's picture

As I mentioned over at

Submitted by bizgrrl on Fri, 2010/07/02 - 3:02pm.

As I mentioned over at RoaneViews, I think this is a great idea. Sen. Bob Graham from Florida started doing workdays in 1974 while campaiging for the Florida Senate and continued them when he was governor and senator. Obviously, he and workdays were a hit in Florida. And, IMO, he did a lot for the people of the State of Florida.

Maybe the quiet, unassuming Mike McWherter can do for Tennessee what the quiet, unassuming Bob Graham did for Florida, even though he is getting a much later start than Graham.

EricLykins's picture

jobs, jobs, #JOBS! and other issues, #whatworks

Submitted by EricLykins on Fri, 2010/07/02 - 6:29pm.

Previously:

*There is a simple phrase that should drive any policy debate: "what works?"

*Part One: Education

*#JOBS!

"The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether it works ... Where the answer is yes, we intend to move forward. Where the answer is no, programs will end."

Mary the prez's picture

Mike Works and has great ideas about creating JOBS

Submitted by Mary the prez on Fri, 2010/07/02 - 6:37pm.

Yes, I have heard Mike talk about his approach of actually visiting working Tennesseans, and it is this type of on-the-job-training that will help him be a good Governor.

He also has some great ideas about creating jobs in small businesses, especially those that would support the new alternative fuels industries already located here.

And he doesn't waste much time trying to cut down the opponents; guess he thinks they can all end up canceling each other out with their accusations and slams at each other!

And what with all the GOPers stumbling over each other trying to get the TEA BAG support, he is wise to move forward with his positive agenda, educating Tennessee on what he can offer to grow our economy. And he will work WITH this Administration to apply for every dollar that will help our State and not reject any help the Federal Government offers us.

EricLykins's picture

Donate last night's bar tab.

Submitted by EricLykins on Sat, 2010/07/03 - 11:47am.

I matched what I left strewn across bars last night and donated $35 + $5 tip to ActBlue.

The GOP is doing a good job of raising money from people who are scared to death that there's not going to be another tomorrow if one more Democrat ever gets elected or anything else ever gets done by any government.

However, there are adults out there that are trying to work. It's not their fault that they are mostly Democrats and they need help, not hindrance or heckling. Put up.

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