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Last Updated on Monday, 27 October 2008 02:21 Written by rslcpol Monday, 27 October 2008 02:21
From the Chattanooga Times Free Press:
The campaign trail through Tennessee’s legislative races is getting increasingly muddy as candidates and party organizations dish dirt on rivals and accuse them of lying, behaving like clowns, coddling drug dealers and violating state ethics or campaign finance laws.
Ed Cromer, who edits The Tennessee Journal, a nonpartisan newsletter, said the harshest attacks come in some of the closest races.
“They’re trying to win, drive their opponents’ negatives up and win that way,” Mr. Cromer said. “It has gotten quite nasty.”
Voters need to ask themselves “are the ads truthful, and, two, are they out of bounds even if they are truthful?” he said.