The Greeneville Sun article below provides information that David Davis will be facing in contesting his loss to Phil Roe.
The top state election official said Friday that absentee ballots received after polls closed on election day cannot be counted.
That state law apparently all but dashes the re-election chances of U.S. Rep. David Davis, R-1st, who had told The Greeneville Sun late Thursday night that he believed there are enough absentee ballots not yet received by local election commissions in the district to reverse his apparent loss in Thursday’s Republican Primary. Read more on Roe/Davis
The people have voted and have picked Phil Roe as their new Republican US Representative candidate for the 1st Congressional District of Tennessee. The unofficial results show a very close race that gave Phil Roe about a 460 vote lead.
Congress.org below has given David Davis a rank of dead last of all of the US Representatives from Tennessee and a rank of 430 out of 435 in the US House Of Representatives.
State Delegation Average Score: 18.38
State Rank: 32
JOHNSON CITY – “The fact that incumbent Rep. David Davis (R) has accepted numerous political contributions from large oil corporations is undeniable,” challenger Phil Roe said Monday.
But, in politics, anything is apparently possible.
Davis began running television advertisements over the weekend across East Tennessee denying that he had ever “pocketed money from oil companies.” The ad is in response to an ad Roe has been running for weeks that features an elderly woman taking Davis to task for accepting contributions from oil companies when East Tennesseans are struggling with record high gas prices. “Records are only as far away as the the Federal Election Commission’s web site,” Roe said.
“David Davis is just playing games,” Roe said. “He’s trying to say he didn’t personally pocket the money, that only his campaign did.” Other accusations in Davis’ ad such as linking Roe to Hillary Clinton are ridiculous and unfounded.
“The fact is, Davis is running scared and he’s trying to run away from his contributors,” Roe added. “He is beginning to realize that people are fed up with politics as usual
in Washington and want real, meaningful change.”
“The influence of the oil lobby and other energy special interests in Washington is hindering Congress from enacting a solid energy plan to deal with a crisis in gas prices which is crippling the economy,” Roe said.
Roe, who has pledged to refuse all contributions from political action committees, lobbyists and other special interests, called on Davis to return the money on July 3. Davis has refused.
The first congressional district Republican primary will be held August 7.