April 14, 2005

Former Hilleary Aide Endorses Bryant

This just in via email from the Ed Bryant For Senate campaign: Janice Bowling, the District Director for former 4th District Congressman Van Hilleary and who has twice earned the Republican nomination for Tennessee’s 4th Congressional District, today endorsed Ed Bryant’s campaign to succeed Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist who is not seeking reelection. Bowling’s endorsement of Bryant comes on the heels of a new statewide poll which showed Bryant with a 9-point lead over his nearest competitor in the GOP primary.

From the press release:

"Ed Bryant has the honesty and integrity we need in the person to replace retiring Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist," Bowling said. "Ed’s a man of character and the proven conservative in the race who we can depend on to defeat the Democrat and remain loyal to his conservative principles of lower taxes, less government and federal judges who strictly interpret the Constitution rather than liberal activist judges who legislate from the bench."

Bryant, the former federal prosecutor and four-term Congressman from the 7th District, said, "I’m honored by the faith and confidence Janice has placed in our campaign and am extremely fortunate to have her working hard on our behalf. Twice, Janice has earned the respect and support of Tennessee Republicans in the 4th Congressional District and twice she has used her tenacious work ethic to make Tennesseans proud to have supported her campaigns. My commitment to her, and the scores of Tennesseans joining our army of volunteers, is to spend each and every day of my term working to make them proud to have supported our effort to become the next United States Senator from Tennessee."