Mike in the News

MAY 27 - AMERICA FIRST: MIKE PADGETT AND THE INTERNATIONAL GUARD

By AC Kleinheider
The Nashville Post: Post Politics

One of Tennessee's cutting-edge bloggers, A.C. Kleinheider with Nashville Post, joined me Tuesday for lunch and a lively discussion of the issues. True to his craft, he posted a candid report Tuesday evening.

Today, I had to the pleasure of sitting down for a spell with U.S. Democratic Senate candidate Mike Padgett while on a break from visiting and talking with supporters here in Nashville.

I must say that there is certainly no lie to Padgett's billing as a "Southern Appalachian Democrat." Mike Padgett is exactly as he has often been described. If you were to look up the term "Southern Pol" in the dictionary, you should not be at all surprised to see Mike Padgett's face smiling back at you...

Well known for a term he seems to have coined, "Southern Appalachian Democrat," I asked him to reiterate what the term means to him.

"Appalachia was the place I was raised. It's East Tennessee. We didn't have all the luxuries they had in New York or California or Florida. We made do with what we had. We may not have had all material things in the world but we lived a good life. When there was a person in need we helped that person." ...Read Kleinheider's entire post

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