NASHVILLE – Tennessee’s U.S. Senate race is all about the money right now – as in who has given to whom – with both parties respectively attacking some donors to Republican Marsha Blackburn and Democrat Phil Bredesen in guilt-by-association attacks.
State Democrats are hitting Blackburn, a Brentwood congress member, as well as the Tennessee Republican Party and the National Republican Senatorial Committee, over campaign cash given to all three over the years by prominent Tennessee GOP mega-donor and auto dealer Lee Beaman.
Beaman is now engulfed in an ugly, scandalous divorce from his fourth wife, Kelley Beaman. She alleges in court filings that her husband made her watch sexually explicit “training videos” featuring him with other women and more than once persuaded her to engage in “sexual encounters” with prostitutes, The Tennessean, Nashville Scene and ScoopNashville.com have reported.
Beaman, meanwhile, accuses his estranged wife in one of his own filings of making “false and unsubstantiated allegations of abuse.”
In the case of Bredesen, a former governor, a state Republican Party attack video hit social media after he described being “embarassed by the circus” exhibited by senators in both parties during U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings.