The following is an email I received from the Broyles campaign.  I think you need to know.

CAFKIA

Dear friends -
 
The campaign continues to roll, and I want to thank each of you for your support during this very exciting, but taxing, time!
 
The good news: Today the Knoxville-News Sentinel gave me a great endorsement!
 

There is an option to vote and leave a comment. Please take the time to vote, and to leave a positive comment about my campaign. Elaine Davis and Tom Salter were also endorsed, but several other good people (Mark Harmon, Colvin Idol, Joan Wagner, Leon Daugherty) were not. Feel free to comment on those instead, especially if they are in your district!
 
The not so good news: We are getting a lot of resistence at Knoxville Center Mall. We knew that the Tindell campaign would try to keep us out of that area, so we did our research before early voting started. As many of you know, there can be no campaign activity within 100 feet of the entrance to a polling place, except if the 100 foot line extends over private property. If that is the case, campaign activity cannot be restricted in that area, but you must have the permission of the property owner. If the property owner will not grant permission, the Election Commission must move the polling place. It is the Election Commission's responsibility to inform the property owner about this ahead of time, and to move the polling place, if necessary. This was not done by the Election Commission.
 
Knoxville Center Mall is private property. The polling place is located in the back of the County Clerk's office, which is in the corner of the mall next to JCPenney. So the 100 foot line extends only to the edge of the clerk's office, and we should be able to campaign in that little corner of the mall, with the management's permission. They are concerned, and rightly so, about having a host of candidates and campaign workers milling around and disrupting mall traffic and other businesses, but have no objection to one or two people quietly handing out "generic" literature to voters. So the mall management will not let us push a particular candidate, but they have allowed us to pass out lists of candidates who support term limits vs. those who do not, as general "voter education."
 
This has gone very well, except - people from Billy's campaign are regularly coming by to harrass us, and are calling mall management and complaining. After two days of recieving complaints, mall management has decided that we can no longer be there. This is critical for my campaign. 3,665 of my target voters vote early, and Knoxville Center Mall is the closest early voting site for my district. I have to be able to reach those voters as they arrive at the polling place, and Billy knows it.   
 
WHAT I NEED YOU TO DO: Please call mall management and tell them (politely, please, and in your own words!) that you support our First Amendment rights to free political speech. That you do not find what we are doing disruptive, but helpful. You might suggest - in polite terms - that you will think twice about spending your money in Simon Malls if they do not allow us to continue with our voter education. Please remember this is not only my campaign we are working on, but everyone's who supports term limits, so please do not single out a particular campaign when you call. You can refer to the voter education team, or the voter workers in orange shirts, if you want. 
 
It is true that this site has been used for a few years as an early voting site, but there has never been much problem with candidates wanting to campaign there. As I stated earlier, most of the traffic there is District 2 voters, and Billy has run unopposed since 1990, so there hasn't been any need for anyone to be there! Indya Kincannon worked the mall when she was running for School Board in our district (in fact, that is where I first met her, when I went to vote for her in the Primary), but I don't think she had any difficulty as she was not running against a Tindell!
 
We have an attorney conatacting the mall's attorney, and we will push the Election Commission to move this early voting site for future elections, but not much can be done to have an impact on this election, except YOUR CALLS!
 
The number of the mall manager (his name is Dell Ware) is: 544-1500. You can avoid the lengthy menu by pressing 6, then 4, to be connected to his office.
 
THANK YOU!

Amy Broyles

www.WriteInAmy.com