Most everybody knows by now that the Tea Party people are meeting this weekend in Nashville, Tennessee in the Gaylord Opryland Hotel. I live in the 7th Congressional District of Tennessee. This means that Marsh Blackburn is my congressional (mis-)representative.
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Marsha proved to be even more dim-witted than usual when she committed to speaking at this event before anybody really knew very much about it. When too much embarrassing information about the event came to light (and, I suspect, her fear grew that it would just be a flop) she found a cowardly way to back out by asking the Congressional Ethics Committee to suggest that she steer clear because the convention is a for-profit event.
I have rehearsed this well-known background in order to say that Marsha Blackburn has a great opponent in 2010. He is Greg Rabidoux, a political science professor at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee.
www.rabidoux4congress.com
Greg has been preparing himself throughout his life for public service in government. Such thorough preparation includes his doctoral research dissertation "Are American Tax Payers Receiving the Municipal Services they Have Paid For?" which is an in-depth analysis of how we can achieve more effective, affordable government through better, more fiscally sound public management. And more recently, when not teaching his policy and constitutional law classes, Greg found time to exhaustively research and write a book – Hollywood Politicos, Then and Now – (April 2009, Rowman and Littlefield Publishers) which has received top reviews at amazon.com.
Today, Greg's supporters will gather at the Music Valley Village shopping center, across the street from the Opryland Hotel, starting at 3:30, in order to raise the visibility of his campaign.