With only four days until Election Day, we have a pretty good grasp on the race for Tennessee’s 3rd Congressional District. Incumbent Chuck Fleischmann has a strong record of fiscal conservatism with a few negatives here and there. Weston Wamp is an articulate and energetic candidate that is willing to put solving problems above partisan loyalties. Ron Bhalla is an American success story with an idealistic and interesting – but impractical – plan to allow constituents’ to direct him how to vote in Congress.
And Scottie Mayfield, well…
We’d like to tell you where Scottie Mayfield stands on the issues, but we can’t. He refused a number of offers to speak to us (and by “us,” I mean the conservative editorial page in the largest newspaper in the district).
Mayfield wasn’t just the only candidate in his race who was unwilling to speak with us. He was the only one of the 28 candidates spread across 11 races we invited to have a conversation with us who refused.
As a challenger with little policy background, we were hoping to learn something about his ideas.