Bryant Questions Corker On City "Lavish Spending" (GOP Senate Primary)

Chattanooga.com ^ | February 16, 2006

[Clintonfatigued]

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ed Bryant on Thursday called on former Chattanooga Mayor Bob Corker "to explain his reported lack of action in responding to then-city councilman Ron Littlefield’s reports of 'lavish spending' and fraud by Chattanooga city employees while Corker was mayor."

The Bryant campaign cited reports that while on the City Council, current Mayor Ron Littlefield warned Mayor Bob Corker of “lavish spending” and fraud in city government.

[Clintonfatigued]

Ed Bryant is the best candidate in the field, although Van Hilleary is acceptable.

It would be a shame if RINO Bob Corker were to win.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Ed Bryant and Van Hilleary are both excellent, but Bryant's nomination will ensure us the Senate seat in November, since he'll win big in the Memphis suburbs in which Ford could conceivably be competitive against other Republicans.

I wish Van Hilleary would run for Governor (he came close to beating Bredesen in 2002), or maybe for the House in the 4th or 6th CDs (he used to represent parts of each). Having two conservatives in the Senate race could give RINO Corker a chance of stealing the nomination.

[Clintonfatigued]

"Ed Bryant and Van Hilleary are both excellent, but Bryant's nomination will ensure us the Senate seat in November, since he'll win big in the Memphis suburbs in which Ford could conceivably be competitive against other Republicans."

Your point about the Memphis suburbs on valid, but the real swing area will be the small town and rural areas in northwest TN around Jackson.

[Sybeck1]

IMO, Alexander is sitting in Bryant's seat.

[Redbob]

You go to Van Hilleary's website, and it's all about his positions on campaign issues.

You go to Ed Bryant's website, and it's all about Van Hilleary.

Tells me who the front-runner is.

[AuH2ORepublican]

"Your point about the Memphis suburbs on valid, but the real swing area will be the small town and rural areas in northwest TN around Jackson."

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Bryant is better known in the Jackson area than are Hilleary or Corker, since he is from one of the counties next to Jackson's Madison County (I think its Henderson County) and since he represented part of the Jackson metro area in Congress. But I doubt that Ford will be able to outperform Al Gore by too much in the Jackson area regardless of the GOP nominee, and the one are where he could run ahead of Gore's 2000 showing and perhaps win the election would be in Memphis and its suburbs.

[fieldmarshaldj]

That's no opinion, that's a FACT.

[Clintonfatigued]

Frankly, it doesn't matter which Senate seat Ed Bryant gets elected to, as long as he gets elected.