TPM Muckraker: Crucial GOP Senate Seat Surprise!!

[Coexist]

According to Justin Rood at TPM, this race in Tenessee is currently a draw, but

"Tennessee, GOP Senate hopeful Bob Corker may have just been handed an "October Surprise" he didn't want.
The race -- currently a dead heat -- is considered a must-win for Republicans if they want to retain control of the Senate."

Here are the details

TextGOP Senate Hopeful Gets Unwanted October Surprise?
By Justin Rood - September 11, 2006, 12:07 PM

In Tennessee, a new development in a three-year-old lawsuit may force new revelations out of the state's GOP Senate candidate, just weeks before the November election.

A judge today required Republican Senate candidate Bob Corker to testify and provide documents in response to a subpoena from a group of environmental activists with Democratic ties, who have filed suit over the former Chattanooga mayor's involvement in a questionable land development deal. Typically, such documents and testimony are public.

The judge ordered the information shared on Oct. 20 -- just three weeks before Tennessee voters are to decide whether he or Democrat Harold Ford Jr. will represent them in Congress. The two candidates are in a statistical dead heat, according to a new Wall Street Journal/Zogby poll.

The flap: Corker, a millionaire developer with a yen for public office, had a hand in two sides of a three-way deal to develop a Wal-Mart "supercenter" in the town of Chattanooga. His company sold land to the developers of the site -- and as mayor, his city administration allowed environmental concerns to be pushed aside in favor of the development.

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[Jack Rabbit]

1. Questionable land deals have a way of getting politicians in hot water

Does anybody disagree?

Now all we nned is find out he got a blow job from an office worker.

[fasttense]

2. I read about Corker's shady land deal a couple months ago

in our local paper. Ever since, Ford has been gaining in the polls. Corker has an add out painting Ford as a liberal. I like it, and voters who are concerned about rampant corruption in Congress will like it too because it implies Ford will keep an eye on the other congressmen. I don't think Corker realizes his add is actually encouraging TN to vote for Ford.

[Historic NY]

3. Imagine he and his attorneys thought it should be dismissed...

because he was running for office. How arrogant,to think he should be above the rule of law.

[symbolman]

4. Isn't it odd that SO MANY

races in this country seem to be Neck and Neck, or within the margin of error?

Then mysteriously we have an election where the margin is within the legal definition that DISALLOWS a recount.

Odd, but true.. watch for it.

Diebold makes all their wildest dreams come true.

[acmejack]

5. Kay baily Hutchison is down to only 9% lead in Texas

She once led by something like 50 points! She has plenty of time to lose this election against a very good Democratic Candidate. no one gave us any chance at all, this is now the "Upset Special"!