Alexander’s campaign

Senator Lamar Alexander is rarely heard from in Unicoi County.  But he’s now running for re-election, and he has a serious challenger this time.  Mike Padgett is running on the Democratic ticket, so Lamar needs to actually work at getting votes.  I was amused at his May 6 letter to the Editor of the Erwin Record.  In it he grumbles about Democrats’ stalling on appointments to the TVA board.  Good grief!  Ever since Dems took control of Congress in 2006 the Republicans’ sole governance strategy has been to block any initiative the majority party proposes.  But I guess when the other guys do it………….  In any event, Alexander got his few lines of free campaign advertising which no doubt is what he actually wanted.