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No, really we just enjoy messing with you because we know how angry you are about the outcome. It's actually quite entertaining. Especially because we all know how crazy your conspiracy theories are.

And endorsing Ira Lapides shows how little of Republican credentials you had in the first place! I hope Overbey is in office for 20 years, because he is a true public servant - and a great legislator at that! OVERBEY WINS! OVERBEY WINS!

I was just wondering if RightChoice who so "boldly" talks about Overbey's "lies, lies, lies" (Doug Overbey never once lied - the truth just hurts) saw where the the chairman of the Republican Party in Sevier County completely backed up what the Overbey campaign said all along about the BEP/education vote in the Knoxville News Sentinel today. So please, quit with all the "lies" garbage. You are the ones who are lying it seems.

Plus, everyone I know in Sevier County said that Overbey signs outnumbered Finney's easily by two to one. Are y'all making this stuff up? Ha ha, it's actually quite funny.

First of all, it is Doug Overbey, not "Overby." Secondly, the bill did not include a pay raise for teachers. It changed the method teachers are paid and increased the ratio the state pays, not their overall salary. (If you have 50% and 50% of a hundred dollars coming from two places, and it changes to 65% and 35% of 100 dollars from two places... it is still a hundred dollars). So Finney has lied about that. I'll take the word of Jack Parton and Mike Dalton over Sen. Finney because their interest is their schools, and the only interest of Sen. Finney is to be re-elected and to lie about this issue and spin it enough that it doesn't show how out of touch he is with his district.

The deal here is, that no matter how the Finney camp lies, spins or tries to deceive voters about BEP 2.0, the fact is that it took money from our district, a fact backed up by all of our school directors, and that the rest of the Blount/Sevier delegation (McCord, Overbey, Montgomery) voted against it, while Finney did not. And Finney should just stick with what he said in the first place, and that is that he made a HUGE mistake (Mtn Press) and he should apologize for it. Instead, he has presented "half-truths and whole lies" about teacher pay, funding for special education, and funding as a whole. People know this is true because teachers and the school directors have endorsed Doug and are voting for him. I will take the word of the rest of our legislators and our school directors and teachers over the Finney camp.

I think it shows out of touch you are that you believe that people who give $25 and $50 dollars do it because they have "expectations." They do it because they believe in the candidate and what the candidate stands for, and want to help them. And I think it is ludacris that you keep bringing up PACs, when Finney has taken most of his money from them as well. Doug has 400 individual donors from inside our district, and Finney does not. Therefore, they will instead try to talk about how Doug Overbey is being bought while in reality, it is that Doug Overbey has more grassroots support.

And now here come the conspiracy theories... this debate doesn't need any of those, because they do not come from what is reality.

I think pretty much 99% of the population including you and I would agree that beastiality is a terrible thing and should be outlawed... but if it is the biggest problem facing Tennessee at this point in time - then you are right, I don't know what is on the minds of Tennesseans. I would imagine it is something more like, schools, the economy, and taxes... not beastiality. I just don't think that is the biggest problem facing us, even though yes it is a terrible terrible thing - I will definitely agree to that.

What are you even talking about? Drunk Drivers? Seriously I have no clue what you are talking about.

"I've came to the conclusion that this man will do and say anything to try and win this seat he wants so badly."

Really? So you're defending a man who has called the Overbey campaign nazi's? Seriously, the ad compared the campaign to NAZI's. As well as, "shoe-shine boy" and "cancer." And then you have the audacity to say, Doug will say anything to get elected. I think RightChoice needs a reality check. Finney has lied about school funding, first calling it a mistake (MTN press), then saying it wasn't that bad (RTL debate), to now saying that his vote was good (mailer) and that Overbey, Montgomery, and McCord all got it wrong and hurt our schools. And someone please tell me, how you can say "I voted to raise teacher pay" when the bill you reference only changed the ratio's of who paid into the salary. Let's put it this way. If you make 100 dollars, and 50% comes from the state, and 50% comes from local, and that changes to 75% and 25% - PLEASE TELL ME HOW THAT MEANS YOU MAKE MORE THAN $100. So guess what? That entire Finney mailer is a lie. And then he can actually go out and call Overbey a liar?

How can this guy even look himself in the mirror in the morning.

Thanks for quoting a Finney flier to us, one that lies at that. And since you like to use the CAPS button so much, I'll do the same.

Something proving what you just said were lies:
- SB3098: Extends the time period for the judicial selection commission to submit a roster of candidates to the governor from 60 to 75 days after notice of vacancy on any appellate court. You tell me how that gives any power to liberal special interest groups and I'll call you the greatest lawyer of all time. YOU ARE LYING and spinning the truth. And then you have the audacity to say Overbey is lying about BEP? AFTER THAT?

- IF TAKING THIRTEEN MILLION DOLLARS AWAY FROM OUR SCHOOLS IS LESS IMPORTANT THAN CASTING A PROCEDURAL VOTE THAT HAD NO AFFECT ON THE OUTCOME AND DOING SO SO YOU COULD WORK WITH OTHERS AND GET MORE DONE FOR YOUR DISTRICT, then I am very sad about the state of the Republican Party and how little we really want to get done for our home districts. If political statements are more important than results, then we are in big trouble.

- "Overbey vote for driving privileges for illegal aliens (SB 3430). Take a second and research what you are even talking about. That bill was an improvement on the current system in 2004 which let ILLEGALS HAVE FULL DRIVER LICENSES. Doug Overbey fought that and voted against it. The bill that RAY FINNEY is spinning and LYING about is the bill that took that away and instead improved so illegals would not be able to board airplanes, vote and put us all at harm like what happened with the terrorists in 9/11. BY THE WAY, RON RAMSEY, who Finney brags about voting for all the time, along with Bill Ketron and other CONSERVATIVES voted for SB 3430, which Finney says gave these privileges to illegal aliens. RON RAMSEY voted for the same bill Doug voted for, let me be clear about that. Look it up. THEN THEY ALL VOTED FOR THE BILL THAT RAYMOND ACTS LIKE HE PASSED ALL BY HIMSELF. Thats a lie. QUIT LYING PLEASE.

Since you spend so much time at the capital, does that mean you are a lobbyist? Hmmm.... And its also pretty easy to directly cut and paste stuff from a website. I know the local Farm Bureau very well and I dont see his involvement with that very much.

You know I would think that Tenn. Right to Life would just embrace the fact that both are 100% pro-life and enjoy that they will have a pro-life Senator in the 8th district no matter what really. Why choose instead to alienate one candidate especially when that candidate has a great chance of winning. What will Tenn. Right to Life do if Overbey wins? Not support him? That makes very little sense to me. I wonder what Finney's camp had to do with all this and if they had a say in the matter while Overbey's camp did not.

If I were TN right to life I would have just counted my blessings instead of trying to alientate a candidate that embraces what they believe. I think the same goes for the NRA, and I know that a bunch of NRA members are not happy about that.