« Brock concedes in District 10 | Main | Who is setting the expectations? »
November 16, 2007
Former rivals support Oscar Brock on election night
At least two GOP candidates who ran against Oscar Brock in the October 4 primary for the District 10 seat won yesterday by Democrat Andy Berke were on hand to lend their support for their party's nominee as the election results were being tallied.
During his concession speech, Mr. Brock pointed out Mark Albertini of Chattanooga and Basil Marceaux of Soddy-Daisy, both of whom were in attendance at the celebration-cum-commiseration. Brock heaped praise on Albertini in particular for the amount of effort he said his former political foe poured into the general election campaign.
I am not aware that either of the Marion County GOP primary candidates, Oscar Brown and Travis Layne, was at the event. I also wonder whether any of the Democratic candidates who were beaten last month made it to the Berke festivities. (Those would be Ken Jordan, Lee Whitaker, and John Wolfe.)
State Senate Elections | By joe lance | 12:41 PM
Comments
Just wondering: why did you go to Brock's event? He lost by a million. Who really cares who attended his event?
Seriously, just wondering from a journalism standpoint.
Posted by: Boyd at November 16, 2007 01:04 PM
A fellow writer at the Pulse and I decided to split up and each cover one of the events. I picked Brock's for a couple of reasons, but the fact that we were covering both should suffice as an explanation.
Also, some might find it interesting, even though the outcome was so decisive. Perhaps not.
Posted by: joe lance at November 16, 2007 01:27 PM
Joe I guess you could thank John Wilder and his bi partisan redistricting plan for the way it turned out last night. His plan has made it pretty difficult for either side to pick up seats in a general election. The way it is now theres only about 7 or 8 seats in the entire senate thats vulnerable in a general election. Also the GOP should learn a lesson from what happened yesterday. They should go back to recruiting blue collar type people like Bill Dunn,Chris Crider,Dr Joey Hensley and folks like that for the legislature. That strategy has helped get their numbers to where there at today. The Dems on the other hand keep turning to party insiders and family members of famous Tennessee Dems(sasser,clement,ford,mcwherter and gore) nearly everytime an opening pops up.
Posted by: dan t at November 16, 2007 03:16 PM
I stay in Marion County and watch the numbers come in over in Marion. I stopped in Mr.Brock Headquarter here in Marion County and talked to him an wished him luck. The Marion County Republican Party officers was the only ones who stay at the Election Commission.
MCRP Chairman
Travis Layne
Posted by: Travis Layne at November 16, 2007 05:48 PM
Mr. Lance thank you for being at Mr. Brock’s meeting last night. It was good to see you. I appreciate your observations. Thank you again for speaking with me during the Primary.
Posted by: Mark Albertini at November 16, 2007 06:15 PM
Funny how Republicans whine about redistricting when they lose but not when they win . . .
The TNGOP took a whoopin' yesterday. They ran a credible candidate, spent a lot of money, and brought in the big guns (Ramsey, Alexander, Corker) and couldn't get 40 percent of the vote.
Four special elections this year, and the Republicans have gotten hosed in all of them. Regionally, the GOP got creamed in VA and MS legislative races last week.
Looks like they're running against the wind.
Posted by: FreddieMac at November 16, 2007 09:52 PM