From left, Weston Wamp, Scottie Mayfield, Chuck FleischmannNASHVILLE – Republican U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann is aiming his third straight televised punch at GOP challenger Weston Wamp with a new ad in which both men’s 2012 rival, Scottie Mayfield, directly takes Wamp to task over secretly recording him last spring.
In the 30-second spot, airing in the Chattanooga and Knoxville media markets, Mayfield faces the camera, discusses the controversy that publicly erupted last spring and seeks to raise questions about Wamp’s character, trust and “Tennessee values.”
“While I was at home playing with my grandson, Weston Wamp showed up at my doorstep, uninvited, to argue politics and secretly recorded our conversation,” Mayfield says in the ad.
“Now he’s asking for your trust to represent us in Washington?” Mayfield continues. “Those aren’t East Tennessee values. We have a congressman we can trust, who’s pro-life, endorsed by the NRA and not afraid to stand up to Obama.”
Wamp charged in a statement that Fleischmann “has been in office for four years and all he can do is run negative, desperate television ads because he doesn’t have a record to stand on.”