Bring Out The Haterade

Sifting through the campaign finance reports now, and one name on the Ward Cammack list pops up as potentially troubling. Gus Puryear, the Republican lawyer for Corrections Corporation of America and failed judicial nominee, who last year had a Fatwa put out on him by the Nashville Scene, gave Ward $250 back in March of this year.

Now they most likely know each other through the Belle Meade Country Club, a club whose membership packet comes with the racist label for many Nashville/Tennessee liberals. And it makes sense to go after the people you know to get the money you need. But given the Scene's recent campaign against Cammack, I wouldn't be too surprised to see them use this donation as another bludgeon. And, quite frankly, it would seem to raise concerns that Cammack is having to rely on members of the GOP establishment for funds...could the favors be returned should Cammack win the election?

Overall, looking at the financial reports, its hard to see how the Cammack campaign goes on much longer. They are burning money faster than they are raising it (and that includes $40,000 in loans from Ward himself) and there doesn't seem to be much traction for Cammack within the Democratic political establishment (at least in Nashville).