Rochelle Quits
The Chattanooga Times-Free Press reports today that state Sen. Bob Rochelle, chief cheerleader for the unconstitutional income tax, has "suspended" his campaign for re-election in the seventh district. Rochelle, who sought to have working defined as a government-granted "privilege" in Tennessee in order to allow taxing it, is in a tough re-election battle with state Rep. Mae Beavers. It was a battle Rochelle, once considered politically invincible, looked increasingly likely to lose. One also has to wonder if Rochelle's underhanded campaign tactics - getting the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation to probe baseless claims that Beavers doesn't live in the district - have backfired and generated increased support for the anti-tax Beavers.