The site you linked to is straight out of the Michael Moore playbook. Absolutely nothing but inuendo and guilt by association nonsense.
If you don't like the guy, fine. But his voting record and statements as a Senator have been fine with me, and you are gonna have to do a lot better then that to actually convince me that there is anything but political sniping going on here. You know the criticism is worthless when they start attacking his flannel shirt.
It was news during the mans brief stay in Tennessee. I remember reading the stuff in what was then a CONSERVATIVE Knoxville news paper. Alexander associated with a lot of persons who took Knoxville to the cleaners. Some were Dems some were GOP. Somehow some way though the taxpayer always got to pick up the cost like the Worlds Fair, The two major bank failures {he was governor then BTW} and it was the feds and not the state who stepped in, The Whittle Building, the Sunsphere, the US Pavilion and had you ever seen it the White Elephant as we locals called it was a useless ugly monstrosity that was an eyesore for years to come.
BTW if you ever go through downtown Knoxville on I-40 and wonder what that big ugly copper colored ball on top of a tower is? It's a shrine to political arrogance!!! It's been there since 1982 and serves no useful purpose whatsoever.