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.
bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)nt
12AngryBorneoWildmen
(536 posts)The value of your input is incalculable.
Uncle Joe
(58,424 posts)Thanks for the thread, Adenoid_Hynkel.
southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)vote for him. I won't but people will vote for him.
EC
(12,287 posts)maddezmom
(135,060 posts)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
Atlatl
(57 posts)How in the world does Chip Forrester keep his job?
loyalsister
(13,390 posts)I think she's awesome and I so wish would have won.