Tennessee Firearms Assoc. Inc.

The plot thickens. That would certainly be a good reason, they don't want to kill the goose that is ABOUT to lay the golden egg right in their laps.

This paragraph in the article pretty well sums it up,

"It's going to be like an arms race with Democrats and Republicans trying to compete for this corporate cash," said Turner. "Pumping this money into the campaigns is going to make it more expensive to run... A House race now costs $50,000. They're going to be $150,000 now."

So where does that leave us, the citizens, constituants. Why don't we just elect FedEx as Governor, Bridgestone as Lt. Governor, and General Tire as Speaker of the House and be done with it?

It may well be one reason why it appears that citizens, no matter how many, have no chance in the current General Assembly if the issue is opposed or desired by "big business."

I understand the desire on the part of the Legislators to garner the money for the mailers and TV add time, but I am pretty sure the average citizens is fed up with being assumed to be of low enough intelligence to be fed misinformation and accept it as the truth, and is seriously tired of the paper trash shoved in our mail boxes.

The next round of promises will be tempered in their delivery with the knowledge on the part of the voters that no one intends to keep them, so it will be a "negative" campaign at best. The certain knowledge that the pap spewed forth is electioneering at best, and that the Republican Party has no intention of acting in a Conservative manner, nor in such a way as to keep the interest of the Conservative base at heart will be fresh on the minds of the activist.