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Adenoid_Hynkel

(14,093 posts)
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 02:15 AM Aug 2012

Floor installer will face Corker in Tennessee Senate showdown

Source: Memphis Commercial Appeal

NASHVILLE — Democrats have nominated Mark Clayton, who raised no campaign cash, to be their candidate to face incumbent U.S. Sen. Bob Corker in November.

Clayton prevailed over six other similarly unknown candidates. With 79 percent of precincts reporting, Clayton had 29 percent of the vote compared with 16 percent for his nearest challenger, Gary Davis.

Corker easily won re-nomination.

Clayton, a 35-year-old flooring installer, said in an interview before the election that privacy issues are his main concern, and that he thinks people are being "over-identified by the government and tracked."

Read more: http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2012/aug/02/floor-installer-will-face-corker-in-tennessee/?CID=happeningnow



I was rooting for Park Overall to get the nomination, as I thought she'd at least keep the race entertaining.
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Floor installer will face Corker in Tennessee Senate showdown (Original Post) Adenoid_Hynkel Aug 2012 OP
A Mondale bluestateguy Aug 2012 #1
If that's to tell us he's going to lose……... 12AngryBorneoWildmen Aug 2012 #2
Kicked and recommended for winning by double digits without raising any campaign cash. Uncle Joe Aug 2012 #3
Corker will win. He has that southern gentlemanly speaking voice and people here will southernyankeebelle Aug 2012 #4
Is this a popular platform in Tennessee? EC Aug 2012 #5
This guy is bad news. Tenn. Democrats disavow party's Senate nominee maddezmom Aug 2012 #6
It was on Maddow a couple of hour ago... Atlatl Aug 2012 #7
It took a lot of guts for her to get into that primary loyalsister Aug 2012 #8

Uncle Joe

(58,424 posts)
3. Kicked and recommended for winning by double digits without raising any campaign cash.
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 10:42 AM
Aug 2012

Thanks for the thread, Adenoid_Hynkel.

 

southernyankeebelle

(11,304 posts)
4. Corker will win. He has that southern gentlemanly speaking voice and people here will
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 11:32 AM
Aug 2012

vote for him. I won't but people will vote for him.

EC

(12,287 posts)
5. Is this a popular platform in Tennessee?
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 12:30 PM
Aug 2012
"privacy issues are his main concern, and that he thinks people are being "over-identified by the government and tracked."

maddezmom

(135,060 posts)
6. This guy is bad news. Tenn. Democrats disavow party's Senate nominee
Fri Aug 3, 2012, 05:37 PM
Aug 2012

The Tennessee Democratic Party is distancing itself from Senate nominee Mark Clayton, saying the candidate has ties to a hate group.

Clayton won the party's nomination yesterday and will face GOP Sen. Bob Corker in November.

"Mark Clayton is associated with a known hate group in Washington, D.C., and the Tennessee Democratic Party disavows his candidacy, will not do anything to promote or support him in any way, and urges Democrats to write-in a candidate of their choice in November," the Tennessee Democratic Party said in a statement.

Clayton is vice president of Public Advocate USA, a conservative advocacy group based in Virginia. The group supported legislation in Tennessee to restrict teaching about homosexuality in elementary and middle schools, known as the "don't say gay" bill.

More:
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2012/08/mark-clayton-tennessee-senate-bob-corker-hate-group/1#.UBxCg6N5mSM
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