Several challengers to U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann are ready to debate immediately -- 172 days before the Aug. 2 primary election. "Now let's debate!!" Weston Wamp wrote online Feb. 6. "Wamp v. Mayfield v. Fleischmann. I'm ready when they are."
He likes President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act, but he would tweak it. He doesn't think Congress should be a "cushy job you never want to leave," but he won't set term limits on himself. He'll close the revenue gap, but he won't raise taxes.
A local Democratic congressional candidate whose top issue is reducing the influence of special-interest money in politics refused this week to criticize President Barack Obama's reversal on that same issue.
Dairy executive Scottie Mayfield hired an experienced political consultant and started a campaign Facebook page in recent days, signaling early signs of life in his congressional bid.
Dairy executive Scottie Mayfield today said he has hired a well-connected campaign consultant to formulate a strategy to defeat U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann.
Republican congressional candidate Weston Wamp said he would release a formal platform Feb. 13, four months after challenging U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Tenn.
Dairy mogul Scottie Mayfield on Friday became the second unexpected challenger to U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, who has spent four months waging a primary battle against Weston Wamp, the 24-year-old son of his immediate predecessor.
The Hamilton County Democratic Party has apologized for dubbing Republican congressional opponents “Do-Nothing Chuck, Little Prince Wamp and the Milkman.”
Scottie Mayfield, the president of the dairy company that bears his name, said he’ll challenge U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann in the 3rd Congressional District GOP primary.
Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi criticized presidential campaigns and the reporters who cover them during a speech at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga on Wednesday, describing connections some in the audience hadn't heard befor
Forty percent of U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann's total re-election contributions of more than $700,000 came from political action committees, a fact one of his primary opponents pounced upon Wednesday.
Thirty-five percent of Hamilton County high school students spend at least five hours a day watching television, playing video games and scouring the Internet, according to new survey results.
A muddy avalanche shut down Signal Mountain's W Road on Saturday, blocking one of the mountain's main thoroughfares. The Hamilton County Sheriff's Office first announced a rock slide Friday at 8:40 p.m.
A five-member parent committee will recommend cuts and fundraising ideas for financially troubled Richard Hardy Memorial School in South Pittsburg, Tenn.
Weston Wamp began his congressional campaign by raising more money than his father ever raised during a three-month period.
To hear Hamilton County Democratic Party Vice Chairman Rodney Strong tell it, "Do-Nothing Chuck, Little Prince Wamp and maybe The Milkman" can be defeated.
Atlanta congressman and civil rights leader U.S. Rep. John Lewis will be the Hamilton County Democratic Party's keynote speaker at an upcoming fundraiser, officials announced.
Tennessee's milkman said he needs to "get enough information to understand what I'm doing" before he decides whether to run for Congress.
Mayfield Dairy President Scottie Mayfield said today he’s considering a congressional run against U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann.
A top aide for U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Tenn., declined to delve into whether the congressman would use negative advertising against a top challenger.
When you see his slicked brown hair, pale skin and Buddy Holly glasses, it's no surprise to discover John Roden's been going to science-fiction conventions for eight years.
An Atlanta hospital has taken blunt advertising right to the gut, using stark television commercials featuring obese Georgia children with a simple question.
Fans of bluntly worded, go-for-the-throat political journalism will get a chance to hear one of its top proponents when Rolling Stone contributing editor Matt Taibbi comes to Chattanooga.
U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Tenn., said the federal government would reimburse Bradley County for tornado cleanup costs within 90 days "if everything goes smoothly."
College kids, chronic Wikipedia users and other unlikely congressional observers set the Internet ablaze Wednesday, protesting the Stop Online Piracy Act in a show of solidarity.
Tennessee's 3rd Congressional District Democratic primary officially became a race Tuesday.
In case the impossible stretches, cartwheeling little sisters and bored little brothers didn't make it obvious, the "Please Apply Body Glitter Outside" signs inside the convention center hammered it home: Chattanooga was Cheeranooga on Saturday.
Girlfriends, burgers and Coldplay were among the topics local alternative weekly The Pulse posed to Chattanooga's youngest-ever congressional candidate last week.
U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann said he enjoyed a "tremendous" first year as a congressman, but admitted he's surprised to be facing the son of his predecessor this year.
Can a Democrat running for U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleisch-mann's seat raise $250,000 in two weeks? Chattanooga businessman Bill Taylor gave it a whirl Friday, sending nearly 400 people a letter focused on big money.
More than eight months after a tornado devastated Bradley County, the local government still is awaiting cleanup money from Uncle Sam.
With a tone that indicated desire for applause, U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., told a local real estate group Wednesday that homeowners and Realtors "cannot continue with Fannie [Mae] and Freddie [Mac] as they are today."
Nearly 60,000 people voted Tuesday in the Democratic presidential primary in New Hampshire, and 246 of them chose John Wolfe, a Chattanooga attorney and four-time congressional candidate.
Nearly 59,000 people voted Tuesday in the Democratic presidential primary in New Hampshire, and 241 of them chose John Wolfe, a Chattanooga attorney and four-time congressional candidate.
A Democrat vying for U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann's job on Tuesday suggested hospice care as a way to curtail Medicare spending, using his deceased mother's experience with breast cancer as an example.
Mosaic church pastor Tim Reid said his church will leave its Market Street building before Jan. 31, reacting to pressure from city officials following Christmas Eve shootings outside the property that left nine people wounded.
The bulk of Chattanooga's congressional district, Tennessee's 3rd, could move northward next week if state lawmakers approve a redistricting proposal that would place Oak Ridge and its surrounding counties at the district's geographical center.
Members of the GOP-controlled state Legislature today released a new congressional district map proposal, potentially reshaping districts in and around Chattanooga for the next decade.
Distinction be damned. That's U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander's attitude toward "third-ranking Senate Republican" and "Republican conference chairman," two titles he's relinquishing this month in a move designed to free him of GOP orthodoxy.
He's a 24-year-old with a communications degree and his first fulltime job. Since he decided to run for Congress, he has said "young people in this country need to step up and lead," calling himself a leader of "the debt-paying generation" and a "working-class" candidate fed up with "the status quo."
A former nuclear regulator, an economic analyst and a congressional think-tank adviser say 2011 marked the fall of the so-called U.S. nuclear renaissance, despite regulators' approval last week of a new reactor design.
On Dec. 15, the day Ooltewah Democrat Bill Taylor announced his run for Congress, he quickly showed off his accessibility and gave his cellphone number to a few local reporters.
U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais went full tea party last year, campaigning across Tennessee's 4th Congressional District as a hard-line conservative all about rescuing an America "swallowed by big government."
U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Tenn., said he and other House Republicans won’t stop demanding a yearlong payroll tax cut extension as House and Senate negotiators plot a path to extend the tax cut for two months.
The fact-checking process for a Chattanooga credit analyst's 200-page book probably took record time. Not even one-tenth of a second.
Local congressmen on Tuesday joined a Republican House majority in rejecting a Senate bill that would have extended the payroll tax cut for two months, putting both chambers back into gridlock 11 days before the tax cut expires for 160 million Americans.
John Wolfe cannot qualify for any Tennessee state or local office until he pays a 3-year-old $10,000 civil penalty, but he's still doing what any registered Democrat with $1,000 can do -- run for president in New Hampshire.
U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann votes with House Republican leadership 95 percent of the time. He has introduced a bill that would eliminate capital gains taxes for two years.
A little blue crept into Tennessee's 3rd Congressional District race Thursday when political newcomer and Ooltewah businessman Bill Taylor became the first Democrat to go after U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann's job.
The latest political battle in Washington, which involves payroll taxes and oil pipelines, found local Republican lawmakers siding with House leadership Tuesday evening.
