[GailA]

Last poll I heard about Mae Beavers was beating the pants of this socialist pro-income tax leader.

[GailA]

70-30

[Yardstick]

Well this is interesting.

In a way I hope Rochelle stays in...I'd like to watch him get beat.

[Common Tator]

Rochelle says he'll think through

That is politicianese my goose is cooked. It most often means people who he thought were going to supply him with campaign money are never in when he calls. And the secretary at the State Democratic headquarters asks who he is after he tells her who he is.

[tomahawk]

Time for this POS vampire to leave the Legislature and fill the seat with someone who respects private property and people being able to spend and save money for their families.

[TennTuxedo]

This doesn't mean that Mae Beavers supporters should stop campaigning and raising money for her campaign. I can envision Rochelle ressurecting himself from the dead in the last month or two of the campaign with a huge war chest, catching a napping campaign off-guard.

[Frohickey]

Rochelle is a strong supporter of a state income tax and says his wife has received violent, threatening telephone calls -- as recently as this week.

He's lying.

I think Rochelle's wife has given violent and threatening telephone calls to her husband.

[meyer]

He says a concern about not running is that the voters' other choice would be -- in his words -- "a do-nothing legislator, a person who is championed by such cruel supporters."

Verbally attacking the voters is no way to win an election. Well, I guess it worked for Hitlery, but she had tons of voter fraud to boost her.

I love the way he refers to us as "cruel". He's trying to steal all of our earnings but somehow he has the odacity to call us "cruel". What a jerk!!

[D. Miles]

Besides he is running...now past the withdrawl deadline! So, what is he going to do...say my name is on the ballot...but don't vote for me ?

[Vidalia]

You folks in Tennessee don't let up for a second. This Bernie Sanders clone/scourge on the political system is indicative of why politicians have no credibility other than with themselves.

Trounce the bastud.

[Old Professer]

Would you believe that I actually had this guy's election sign in my front yard last time around?

He is a friend of my wife's ex-boss, Ben West, also from Hermitage and a House member. Ben made it rather clear that the sign, even though we are just outside Rochelle's and West's districts, was a condition of employment.

Well, West fired my wife this past January after his wife showed up in the office on disability from Metro in Nashville with three doctor's letters attesting to her inability to work downtown, took over my wife's job and got in her face and belittled her.

I swear, if it wasn't against the law, I would break the law myself.

For months my wife kept a secret from the credit union that Ben West services ATM's for that should get him audited and even prosecuted for fraud if it became public; we shared this with the department of labor but they don't seem to care; so far my wife is getting unemployment checks but Ben is still appealing yet won't show up for meetings.

Since he has been in session for all this time I am sure he is going to try and talk one of his crony judges in Chancery into ruling against my wife and we will be hit with a bill for about $7,000 in "undeserved" benefits; it's Hell waiting for this shoe to drop.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Rochelle is my state Senator, though with redistricting, I'll now be in a majority-African American downtown district (even though I'm in SE Nashville) with Thelma Harper, so I won't even be able to vote against this a$$hole. I still can't believe he won last time around after all the money that was spent against him exposing his extremist agenda. }8-(

[joeyman]

You people in Tenn make me proud and provide an example for the rest of the nation to emulate. I am so happy you defeated this income tax movement and now your ripple effects may change the political makeup of the state. Well done!!