From Michael Cass, 12/22/09
http://blogs.tennessean.com/politics/2009/anti-kevin-sharp-petition-on-its-way-to-the-white-house/
I called Music City Center Coalition lobbyist Dave Cooley today to talk about blog commenters. When we got done with that topic, I asked Cooley if anything was new with the petition he signed that questions Nashville’s Priorities president Kevin Sharp’s fitness for a federal judgeship.
He replied that he put the petition in the mail to President Barack Obama earlier today. He said it contains 102 actual signatures, though some of the signers were listed as anonymous in the online version.
I asked Sharp about the petition at the end of an interview Monday, and he said he wasn’t concerned about it. “We’re still talking about the convention center,” he said.
Wow. This is news. Not so much that the Mayor and the pro-MCC, taxpayer-funded PR machine(s) are targeting their largest critic, but that Dave Cooley’s star has fallen so far. I mean, Dave Cooley used to *be somebody* in this town, right? Wasn’t he Deputy Governor? Didn’t he have every top Democrat in the nation on speed dial (along with a few state troopers)? And now what? Printing off 60 real signatures of his fair-weather friends and snail-mailing an online petition to President Obama? I bet he’s licking his own stamps (stamps have gone up considerably, Dave, since you had to do this type of work yourself). I’m sure President Obama will take your petition seriously, you may even get a form letter thanking you for contacting the white house. Good luck with that. NDC
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