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In November it will be Mark Clayton, Democrat versus Bob Corker, Republican incumbent for the US Senate race. Clayton won the Democrat nomination with no campaign money.
But this guy is no Barack Obama Democrat. He's no Bill Clinton Democrat. He's not even a Joe Manchin Democrat. In fact, if he was a Republican, a lot of people would say he's way too far right so you can imagine how well he'd go over in Harry Reid's Senate.
"Mark Clayton believes the federal government is building a massive, four-football-field wide superhighway from Mexico City to Toronto as part of a secret plot to establish a new North American Union that will bring an end to America as we know it. Clayton, an anti-gay marriage activist and flooring installer with a penchant for conspiracy theories, finished on top of a crowded primary field in the race to take on GOP Sen. Bob Corker this fall. He says he's against national ID cards, the North American Union, and the "NAFTA superhighway. He warns of an encroaching "godless new world order" and suggests that Americans who speak out against government policies could some day be placed in "a bone-crushing prison camp similar to the one Alexander Solzhenitsyn was sent or to one of FEMA's prison camps."
The article goes on to say he's the VP of a Virginia group called Public Advocate of the United States. The group calls Rahm Emanual and the mayor of Boston "Pro-homosexual Socialist Dictators."
Okay, forget your opinion of Mark Clayton for a minute. Republican or Democrat, conservative or liberal, wouldn't you love to see him at the Democrat National Convention? If they ever wanted people to watch their convention on TV this year, THEY HAVE TO INVITE THIS GUY! He's their nominee for the US Senate.
Primaries in Tennessee are open. So how do you think this happened?
I don't know. As a Republican I took the Republican ballot. This wasn't the only race we were voting on. We also had a general election for some county and local officials.
Since the man had no money to advertise and I never saw the Democrat ballot, today is the first time I'm hearing about him. Corker didn't run unopposed on the GOP side.
I don't know. As a Republican I took the Republican ballot. This wasn't the only race we were voting on. We also had a general election for some county and local officials.
Regardless, if it were my district, I'd be voting for the Republican. I don't think nutbarz of either party belong in elected office. Maybe the Republicans will clean out a few of their own?
One major problem in Tennessee is the lack of political information on the network news stations unless it is pro-republican.
Generally in the south most voters will vote republican and have no idea why. While distributing pamphlets in a small town in NC an older woman who came from a church down the street from our location happened by and I tried to hand her one of the pamphlets. She refused saying, "save your breath, we all vote like the preacher tells us to vote."
Yes, he won the primary. With 29% of the vote. Shame on the Tennessee Democratic Party for not slating stronger Democratic candidates to run for the office. The man is a leader of a hate group. He'll be more comfortable siding with the GOP than the Democrats. It's interesting, though ... how so many people overlook the local races and focus justs on the Presidential one.
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