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CORRECTION: David Davis Press Release Inaccurate

By Kleinheider Posted on July 17, 2008 at 10:24 am

The Campaign of Congressman Davis got everyone in a tizzy yesterday claiming in a press release that his opponent, Phil Roe, had used the services of a lobbying shop headed up by former Democratic campaign chairman Randy Button.

Turns out, someone (me) should have checked the facts. It turns out that the Capitol Strategy Group on the campaign financial disclosure of Phil Roe is an entirely different outfit than Button’s.

Roe’s Capitol Strategy Group is based in the Nashville area, but in Brentwood rather than downtown Nashville.

Post Politics apologizes for the regurgitation of erroneous information.

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4 Responses to “CORRECTION: David Davis Press Release Inaccurate”

  1. Joe P. writes
    July 17th, 2008 1:16 pm

    Distorting facts and bogus claims are the meat and ‘taters for Davis.

    Sadly, no media outlets fact-check his claims, such as one he made recently that there was “more oil in Colorado” than in Saudi Arabia … the truth is the “oil” is all in shale deposits and Exxon spent $8 billion on trying to extract it in a failed project in the 1980s.
    Then there was Davis’ claim there were more illegal immigrants in Hamblen County, TN than in any other location in the world.

    A pertinent question is why allow such bogus distortions of reality to be printed as “news”?

  2. jre writes
    July 17th, 2008 1:32 pm

    I am from Mr. Davis’ district and I have personaly received at least two or more direct mail brochures within the last two weeks. It is funny to read the info talking about him fighting to make government smaller when all the while it is the taxpayers dollars, available by thru incumbancy, that is used to send the flyers out. Rich indeed.

  3. Phil Roe’s Buttonmen : Post Politics: Political News and Views in Tennessee writes
    July 18th, 2008 4:34 pm

    [...] UPDATE: This post was based on a bogus press release. [...]

  4. Update On The David Davis Bogus Press Release : Post Politics: Political News and Views in Tennessee writes
    July 18th, 2008 5:07 pm

    [...] no comment or retraction, however, for their dissemination of a completely farcical release on Randy Button’s and Kim Adkins’ Capitol Strategy [...]

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