Sun
May 4 2008
01:51 pm
By: reform4
I was watching Tennessee This Week and almost hit the floor with Gene Patterson and Frank Cagle commented that "you have a lot of people running in the August election, and you haven't heard a peep out of them [about the charter petition amendments]."
Cough, cough...Yeah, right....(more after the break... link)
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Well, I haven't been to all of the...
Charter forums, but the two i've been too I haven't seen Frank at them either. And yet, at each one of them there was plenty of representation from the people running in August....
Admittedly...
... I had to miss the one at West High School (I had to go to a previously scheduled EPA conference on the new air quality requirements), but several people from my campaign went, and I made a blog post and sent out press releases so there wouldn't be any confusion regarding my stance.
There's so many other big issues, the budget being the biggest. And that's one that requires a bit more than a 60 second answer to do it justice.
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