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8/29/2002

Road to Loserville
Watt Childress says here that one of them "Republicans for Bredesen" is just a sore loser who had wanted a road built.

Referring to just-defeated state Rep. Zane Whitson, Childress writes: Perhaps their close friendship extends back to Bredesen's last statewide campaign, when he filled Northeast Tennessee mailboxes with glossy fliers telling recipients that if elected governor he would build a new half-billion-dollar highway from the Tri-Cities Regional Airport into rural Greene County, roughly parallel to I-81. The sprawling highway was subsequently pushed by Sundquist, despite its rejection by local voters in a public referendum. The redundant corridor is a pet project of Whitson and state Sen. Tommy Haun (who also lost his recent bid for re-election).

Incidentally, Whitson and Haun backed the income tax, which proved at least as unpopular as that silly road which Bredesen wanted to waste half a billion taxpayer dollars on.

Thanks to the ever-eloquent HB for the link pointing me to this Kingsport Times-News story.