For the love of all that is holy, Get Some Dem Campaign $$ to TN!!!

[IdaBriggs]

The guy who just won the Democratic nomination for Governor did it with ZERO money, and did not campaign. He is 72 years old, and he is a retired union guy who loves to hunt and fish. He cares about the environment.

Name recognition?

HIS NAME IS CHARLIE BROWN!

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2014/08/charlie_brown_democratic_candidate_for_tennessee_governor_the_72_year_old.html

The Alvin Greene of 2014

Meet Tennessee’s accidental Democratic nominee for governor, a 72-year-old hunter who didn’t do any campaigning.

For Democratic party leaders in Tennessee, this year’s governor’s race was less about who they could get on the ballot than who they failed to keep off of it. The state offers almost no barriers to entry. Filing fees are nonexistent and a grand total of 25 signatures are needed to become a candidate. The man who emerged from this no-horse race to win Thursday’s Democratic primary has no chance to win in November. But it’s still worth hearing what Charlie Brown has to say.

This fall’s election in the heavily red state didn’t figure to be close, even before most of the Democratic party’s top candidates declined to run. Republican Bill Haslam cruised to victory in 2010 and has a multi-million-dollar war chest. No incumbent governor in the state has failed to win re-election since 1979, and even that figure is misleading—the governor that year, Ray Blanton, was hampered by the fact that he was on his way to jail. And this wasn’t the first time Tennessee Democrats nominated a virtual unknown: Two years ago, the state’s party was embarrassed by the accidental U.S. Senate nomination of Mark Clayton, a Nashville floor installer and the vice president of an anti-gay hate group.

(snip)

From a distance, Brown would seem like an easy man to parody. He’s not. During our hourlong conversation, he brought up a number of issues that made him sound more like a concerned citizen than a Southern stereotype. Brown said he had been in a union all his life, and was dismayed at the way his home state treated organized labor, including groups representing teachers and prison guards. He thought that the clear-cutting undertaken by the state’s wildlife resources agency was putting that same wildlife in danger. And he brought up a number of potential scandals that he saw as disqualifying for Bill Haslam, including what he saw as a suspiciously lucrative land deal for a friend of the governor’s. “There’s no banks in heaven,” Brown told me, in response to the daunting personal wealth of his opponent, whose family fortune totals nearly $1 billion.

(snip)

The candidate with so little campaigning experience was eager to ask advice from a reporter with even less. “How do I make a name for myself?” he asked. I told him I didn’t know anything about running a campaign. His best quality—the fact that he talked like a normal human being and not a politician—was also his biggest liability. As if to hammer home the point, Brown told me why his wife wouldn’t like the third part of his three-point plan, the one about forgoing a salary in favor of purchasing some large deer. “She’s just after me constantly about buying a new truck, but I ain’t doing it,” he said. “If I want to go to the mountains I go to the mountains. If I want to go to the lake I go to the lake. Nothing’s wrong with the truck I have now.”

(more at link)

Hmm. corrupt Republican politician versus grandpa who likes to hunt and fish named Charlie Brown?

VOTE FOR CHARLIE BROWN!

[SammyWinstonJack]

1. If elected, bet he'd expand Medicaid, unlike that repuke a$$hat haslam.

I moved here in Jan., and I've noticed there seems to be a fair amount of upper middle class to one per centers, at least around Nashville and surrounding areas.

Clearly not in need of expanded Medicaid.....so SCREW everyone that does and re-elect the
rich a$$hat who denies poor families who ARE in need.

Now those who ARE in need and vote for the rich a$$hat who denies them......well....

[tnlurker]

2. The reason he won in Tn

He won because his name was on the top of the ballot. In TN elections the names are always listed alphabetically. I have seen this happen her many times. In the absence of a known person on the ballot (people that can campaign and have TV/Radio commercials), the person on the top of the ballot wins.

[IdaBriggs]

4. And his opponent's name is Haslam.

Which means Mr. Brown has both the "top of the ticket" advantage, along with one of the most famous names in US cultural history.

Talk about an opportunity to take back Tennessee - !!!

[tnlurker]

9. Yes He will be the top of the ticket in the general election

But Haslam is a very well known current Governor and will not lose. I am so disappointed that a well known Democrat did not run for either Governor or Senator (against Alexander) this year. Both of then would have been good races if a named Democrat would have run. As it is the unknown Democrat in both races will get between 25-35% just because they are on the ballot. I am hoping that the democrat running (Joe Carr) for senator will actually put up a fight.

[DeSwiss]

7. And a divine nudge, apparently.....

According to Brown, his candidacy began on the side of a local highway. “I was waiting on this guy at the interstate,” he said, when he felt something come over him. “I just fell on my knees right outside the truck and went to praying.” Brown says that he felt a sudden revelation come from the Lord, who asked him to run for higher office. link

- The article didn't mention which ''Lord'' but I'm assuming that its the usual one that most fall on their knees to here in TN.....

[secondwind]

3. kicked

[DeSwiss]

5. Here's his campaign song!

K&R

He could use some friends too:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Chrles-VCharlie-Brown-For-Governor/1379534778986698

[tavernier]

6. Hunting with his trusty bird dog Snoopy

by his side.

Can't beat that poster!!

Although he might need permission from the Charles Schultz representatives... And Woodstock. 😄

[Overseas]

8. K&R. Yes please!