I'm curious to know Greg Mackay's read on that incident. Is his quote on the mail piece correct? I would attach a lot of credibility to how he saw it.

she'll end up denying she had anything to do with it

It is an official campaign mailing. It says right on it, "Paid for by the Cortney Piper Campaign, Jeff Talman treasurer."

The "abandoned the Democratic Party" line is the real giveaway on the honesty of this flyer. Remember that 2006 was the year the elections rode the roller coaster of conflicting and poorly timed court decisions that left incumbents first ineligible as per the Supreme Court, then eligible as per the "da charter is broke" decision, then ineligible again when the Supreme Court trashed that decision. Billy Tindell won the primary during that small window of being eligible, so running as an independent, as all the write-ins candidates did, was the only way to give voters an alternative to the term-limited incumbents on the ballot. Characterizing what the write-in candidates did as "abandoning the party" is contemptible.

Tamara, Mackay's quote tells the truth: the mall was not willing to allowing campaigning, and the election commission can not use a polling place that does not permit the full range of activities allowed at a poll. In other words, mall management shut down the polling place, not any candidate.

It wouldn't be effective with me. Quite frankly, I think this horse died a long time ago.

I don't live in the 2nd district, but this would make me less likely, rather than more likely, to vote for Piper.

"The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones." - John Maynard Keynes

Sued on what grounds? Their corporate policy is inconsistent with hosting a public polling place, but that is not illegal.

I'm not sure why the Piper campaign thought this was a good idea. Did they do some sort of polling and discover that THIS is the issue that is mobilizing voters? I think they were sadly misinformed.

The comment about abandoning the Democratic Party was quite laughable (given the context of the run as an independent and the term limits issues as a previous poster described in detail).

It won't influence me to support Piper's campaign. In fact, it did turn me off a bit from any leanings I was having in that direction.

That being said, Broyles didn't do herself any favors with the mailing we received today in which she listed one of her qualifications for office as being "a native Tennessean."

As Carlene Malone's old campaigns used to highlight, sometimes being a non-native is a plus (especially when you consider the native status of the current office holders). In this campaign, proudly proclaiming yourself "one of us" might just be damning yourself with faint praise.

I'll probably flip a coin in the primary. Either one of them would be preferable to Bolus, but I sure hope Piper and Broyles don't decide to have a mud fight and prove me wrong.