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Jeff Glor (born July 12, 1975)^[1] is an American broadcast journalist. He anchors the Sunday edition of CBS Evening News and serves as a special correspondent for CBS This Morning. He also frequently fills in co-hosting CBS This Morning Saturday.

He was the news anchor of CBS News' The Early Show until January 2012. Prior to The Early Show, he served as anchor of the Saturday edition of the CBS Evening News and was a national correspondent for all CBS News broadcasts. Previously, he was a national correspondent for The Early Show from April 2007 until February 2009. In January 2010, Glor was one of the first journalists on the ground in Haiti following that country’s devastating earthquake.

He has reported from Iraq, where he was embedded with U.S. soldiers and conducted a one-on-one interview with Gen. David Petraeus. Glor traveled to China in August 2008 to cover the Beijing Olympic Games and to Vancouver, Canada, in February 2010 to cover the Winter Games. In 2008, Glor was a lead member of the CBS News team that covered Pope Benedict XVI's historic visits to Washington, D.C. and New York City. He served as The Early Show's primary campaign correspondent during the 2008 presidential election. In July 2011, Glor was in Norway to cover the twin terror attacks in and near Oslo.

In October 2011, he won an Emmy for his Sunday Morning report on the aging steel town of Braddock, Pennsylvania. Also at CBS, he created and produces the blog "Author Talk". A video version was launched late in 2011.^[2]

Prior to joining CBS News, Glor served as the weekend evening news anchor and a weekday reporter for WHDH-TV Boston from 2003 through 2007. Before that, he was co-anchor of WSTM-TV Syracuse's 5 p.m. newscast and a reporter for the 11 p.m. newscast (2000–03), as well as the morning news anchor (1997–2000). During that time, Glor's newscast rose to become the No. 1 morning program in the market. He began his journalism career in 1997 as a part-time writer at WSTM, while attending college.^[3]

Encomiums[link]

In Central New York, Glor was named "Best Male News Anchor" by the Syracuse New Times, and one of the 40 most promising professionals under the age of 40. He served as a contributing researcher and writer on The Legal Handbook for N.Y. State Journalists.^{[citation needed]}

Personal[link]

Glor was born in Tonawanda, New York. He graduated magna cum laude from Syracuse University in 1997 with dual degrees in journalism, from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, and economics. At Syracuse, Glor was awarded the Henry J. Wolff prize, given to the Newhouse student "most proficient in journalism".^[4]

A fan of the Buffalo Bills, on August 30, 2011 he interviewed former Bills head coach Marv Levy on The Early Show.^[5]

Family[link]

Glor and his wife Nicole (née Glab) live in New York and have a son.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Story about Glor's new job description effective January 9, 2012 (with photo) in the New York Post

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Dwight Henry (born March 13, 1953 in Sweetwater, Tennessee) is a former Tennessee politician.

Biography[link]

Henry attended Cleveland State Community College from 1971 to 1973 and then enrolled in Tennessee Technological University, graduating in 1976 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He became involved in the radio broadcasting industry and in 1985 was elected mayor of Cookeville, Tennessee.

Henry, a Republican, was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives in 1988 from the 43rd House District, a largely rural area centered around Cookeville, the site of Tennessee Tech, which had almost uniformly supported Democrats in the past.

When it became apparent that no prominent Republicans were going to challenge popular incumbent Tennessee governor Ned McWherter for re-election in 1990, Henry entered the fray, winning the primary election easily, apparently with the understanding that his chances of defeating McWherter in the general election were incredibly low,^[1] and also that McWherter, a moderate who was also supported by many prominent Republicans including many of their major contributors and fund raisers, would control the vast majority of all finanicial contributions made to the race.

Henry's appeal was essentially solely to Republican straight-ticket voters and conservatives, and he received only about one-third of the votes in the November general election.^[2] While some speculated that his motive at the time was to become better known and enter other political races in the future, to date he has not done so. He has, however, occasionally served as a radio commentator and analyst with regards to Tennessee political issues.

Dwight Henry is no relation to Jim Henry, former minority leader of the Tennessee House of Representatives and candidate for governor in the 2002 Republican primary, but is frequently confused with him, as both have run for the Republican nomination for governor of Tennessee in recent years, and served together in the Tennessee House from relatively nearby districts.

Henry was the youngest man ever elected to the office of mayor in Cookeville. Because of this, Henry was able to add another record to his family in May 1986. Brittany Kylene Henry was the first baby born to a mayor of Cookeville while he was still in office.

References[link]

New York City native and a graduate from Cornell University & Staten Island Technical High School, Jeffrey R. Berardelli, better known as Jeff Berardelli, AKA The Weather Professor, is an American television meteorologist for WFOR-TV in Miami. Jeff is also the creator and President of ZoomRadar.com LLC, an interactive weather company for media websites. Since its founding 3 years ago, ZoomRadar has grown to serve a few dozen media websites across the nation. In addition to his weather duties at WFOR-TV he is also an Adjunct Professor of Broadcast Meteorology at the University of Miami. Jeff also produces a weekly fishing and saltwater sports segments for WFOR-TV & WBFS-TV.

Before accepting a job at WFOR-TV in March 2007, he was the morning meteorologist for WCBS-TV in New York City and fill-in weather presenter on CBS Network's The Early Show for three years. In addition to his television work in New York City, the native Staten Islander served as a professor of weather, climate and climate change at the College of Staten Island. Before that, he served as a meteorologist on the Tampa, Florida CBS affiliate WTSP-TV, where he worked for three years. Prior to his employment there, he worked for the Florida equvilant of NY1, Bay News 9, for three years.

While attending Cornell University, he served a meteorologist at WGRZ-TV in Buffalo, New York and WETM-TV in Elmira, New York. Also during his time at Cornell, Jeff was a member of the Alpha Sigma Phi (Rockledge) Fraternity and his pledge name was "Babs".

Berardelli holds an American Meteorological Society seal of approval #1064. Jeff is board member of the Children's Cancer Caring Center & Get Kids Fishing Foundation in South Florida. Jeff also works closely with the 9-11 Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation commemorating the victims and heroes of 9-11.

References[link]

• WCBS-TV Biography
• List of AMS Television Seal Holders

Rebecca Jarvis (born December 14, 1981 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is a financial journalist and was a finalist on Season 4 of The Apprentice. Jarvis graduated from the University of Chicago in 2003 and from St. Paul Academy and Summit School in 1999.

Early life[link]

Jarvis is a daughter of Gail (nee Marks) Jarvis and James T. Jarvis. Her father is a lawyer and business consultant in Chicago. Her mother is The Chicago Tribune’s nationally syndicated financial columnist.^[1]

Known to her friends as "Becky," Jarvis was one of Teen People's "20 Teens Who Will Change the World" in February 2000. She was honored for raising over $750,000 for her own non-profit children's charity - a project that also involved Al Gore and Colin Powell, which she set up at 15. She was also awarded a "Point of Light" for her advocacy of disenfranchised children and teens. During high school, Jarvis worked with the "National Youth Leadership Council" on their Youth Project Team, getting one of the few interviews granted by then Secretary of State Colin Powell while serving as an NYLC Youth Reporter at National Youth Summits.^[2]

[edit] The Apprentice

On the second week of The Apprentice 4, she broke her ankle while playing hockey as a task-winning reward. She was on crutches for the rest of the competition, which took 39 days to tape in the summer of 2005, but was fully able to walk by the time of the live season finale five months later. On the season finale of the Apprentice, Randal Pinkett was hired instead of her. Donald Trump asked Randal if he should hire Rebecca as well and Randal replied that there should only be one Apprentice, and Trump let Randal's decision stand.^[3]

Professional career[link]

Jarvis has worked in both investment banking and foreign currency trading, but left financial services to pursue a career in journalism. She’s written for publications ranging from Crain’s Chicago Business to Business 2.0 and currently is a governor on the board of the Society of American Business Editors and Writers.

On March 7, 2006, the business news channel CNBC announced it would be hiring Jarvis as an associate reporter for the network.^[4] She was a general assignment reporter, based at CNBC’s world headquarters and covers the NASDAQ and NYMEX. She last appeared on CNBC on September 18, 2009, and on October 21, 2009 TVNewser quoted CNBC spokesman Brian Steel as confirming that "Rebecca is no longer with CNBC, and we wish her the best." ^[5]

Rebecca Jarvis has been with CBS News since April 1, 2010. She is currently the co-anchor of CBS This Morning Saturday, as well as Business and Economics Correspondent for CBS News.^[6]

Personal life[link]

Jarvis married Matthew Hanson on January 28, 2012 at Mcnamara Alumni Center in Minnesota. They both are graduates of University of Chicago. She was proposed to on La Salle street in Chicago. Rabbi Barry Axler officiated the ceremony with the bridegroom’s father, the Rev. Craig Hanson, the lead pastor at Roseville Lutheran Church in Roseville, Minnesota, taking part.^[7]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Interview with Rebecca Jarvis by Minneapolis St. Paul Magazine
• Rebecca Jarvis joins CNBC Business Day as an Associate Reporter 7 March 2006
• Rebecca Jarvis at the Internet Movie Database

Bob Corker
United States Senator from Tennessee
Incumbent
Assumed office January 3, 2007 Serving with Lamar Alexander
Preceded by	Bill Frist
71st Mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee
In office 2001–2005
Preceded by	Jon Kinsey
Succeeded by	Ron Littlefield
Personal details
Born	Robert Phillips Corker, Jr. (1952-08-24) August 24, 1952 (age 59) Orangeburg, South Carolina
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Elizabeth
Children	Julia, Emily
Residence	Chattanooga, Tennessee
Alma mater	University of Tennessee (B.S.)
Profession	Construction executive Real-estate magnate Mayor of Chattanooga
Religion	Presbyterian[1]
Website	corker.senate.gov

Robert Phillips "Bob" Corker, Jr.^[2] (born August 24, 1952) is the junior United States Senator from Tennessee. Before his election to the Senate in 2006, he served as mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee from 2001 to 2005. Corker was a businessman prior to holding public office.

Early life and family[link]

Corker was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina,^[3] the son of Jean J. (née Hutto) and Robert Phillips "Phil" Corker. He moved to Tennessee at the age of 11.^[4] He graduated from Chattanooga High School in 1970. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Management from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 1974. Corker is a member of Sigma Chi fraternity. He and his wife Elizabeth, whom he married on May 18, 1987, have two daughters. The family's permanent residence is at the Anne Haven mansion built by Coca-Cola Bottling Company heirs Anne Lupton and Frank Harrison.^[5]

After working four years as a construction superintendent, he started his own construction company, Bencor, which he sold in 1990. In 1999, he purchased the two largest real estate companies in Chattanooga, Osborne Building Corporation and the Stone Fort Land Company, making him the largest private land owner in Hamilton County, Tennessee. He sold most of these holdings in 2006 to Henry Luken. His business successes have made Corker a multimillionaire.^[6]

Corker's assets were estimated at $19.19 million in 2008.^[7]

1994 Senate campaign[link]

Corker first ran for the United States Senate in 1994, losing the Republican primary to eventual winner Bill Frist.^[6] During the primary, Frist’s campaign manager labeled Corker “pond scum” in a Corker attack, which made statewide headlines.^[8]

Mayor of Chattanooga[link]

From 1995 to 1996, Corker was appointed Commissioner of Finance and Administration for the State of Tennessee, working for Governor Don Sundquist.^[3]

Although Chattanooga's mayors are generally Democrats, as Republican mayor of the fourth-largest city in Tennessee from 2001 to 2005, Corker oversaw a $120 million renovation project, including an expansion of the Hunter Museum, a renovation of the Creative Discovery Museum, an expansion of Chattanooga's River Walk, and the addition of a new salt water building to the Tennessee Aquarium.

2006 Senate campaign[link]

In 2004, Corker announced that he would seek the U.S. Senate seat to be vacated by incumbent Republican Senator Bill Frist, who had announced that he would not run for reelection. In the Republican primary election, he ran against two former congressmen, Ed Bryant and Van Hilleary. Both of his opponents ran as strong conservatives, denouncing Corker as a moderate and eventually labelling him a leftist.^[9] In the course of his primary campaign, Corker spent $4.2 million on television advertising, especially in the western portion of the state, where he was relatively unknown before the primary.^[6] In the August primary election, he won with 48% of the vote over Bryant's 34% and Hilleary's 17%.^[10]

For the general election campaign, his Democratic opponent, Harold Ford, Jr., challenged Corker to seven televised debates across the state. In response, Corker said he would debate Ford, though he did not agree to seven debates.^[11] The two candidates eventually participated in three televised debates: in Memphis on October 7,^[12] in Chattanooga on October 10,^[13] and in Nashville on October 28.^[14]

In October 2006, as polls indicated that Ford was maintaining a slight lead over Corker,^[15] - the Republican National Committee ran a television advertisement^[16] that would provoke a nationwide outcry. In the 30 second television advertisement, sound bites of numerous "people in the street" pronouncing Ford wrong for Tennessee were interspersed with two shots of a white woman animatedly recalling meeting Ford—who is African-American and who was unmarried at the time—at "the Playboy party". The ad concludes with this woman leeringly inviting Ford to phone her.^[17][18] The ad was denounced by many people, including former Republican Senator and Secretary of Defense under Bill Clinton, William Cohen, who called it “a very serious appeal to a racist sentiment.” Corker subsequently pulled ahead in the polls.^[19] Corker went on to win the election by less than three percentage points. He was the only new Republican Senator in the 110th Congress.^[20] Tennessee holds the distinction of being the only U.S. state to elect a new Republican to both houses of Congress in the 2006 mid-term elections.

Senate career[link]

Tenure[link]

Corker was sworn in as Senator on January 4, 2007. At the ceremony he was accompanied by “two former Senate majority leaders from Tennessee, Howard Baker and Bill Frist”.^[21]

Corker has voted against a cap-and-trade measure, but said he might accept a "rational" version of the legislation. Criticizing as “political stimulus” for electoral campaigns,^[22] Corker became one of the only sixteen Senators who opposed the tax rebate stimulus plan.^[23] Later, he had described the stimulus package that passed Congress as "silly".^[24]

Corker was one of the original members of the Gang of 10, now consisting of twenty members, which is a bipartisan coalition seeking comprehensive energy reform. The group is pushing for a bill that would encourage state-by-state decisions on offshore drilling and authorize billions of dollars for conservation and alternative energy.^[25]

In December 2008, Corker opposed a Democratic proposed federal bailout for the failing US automakers,^[26] and expressed doubt that the companies would be salvaged.^[27] Corker proposed that federal funds be provided for automakers only if accompanied by cuts in labor costs and other concessions from unions.^[28] Negotiations regarding Corker's proposal broke down on the evening of December 11, 2008. The United Auto Workers, which had previously accepted a series of cuts in its current contract, sought to put off any further cuts until 2011, while Corker requested that cuts go into effect in 2009.^[29] Republicans blamed the UAW for failure to reach an agreement, while the UAW claimed that Corker's proposal singled out "workers and retirees for different treatment and make[s] them shoulder the entire burden of restructuring."^[30] On December 13, 2008, Businessweek reported that Corker was "one of those responsible for winning the new Volkswagen Chattanooga Assembly Plant at a cost of $577 million in tax incentives" during his tenure as mayor of Chattanooga, raising questions about Corker's motivations during the bailout negotiations.^[31]

In September, 2009, Corker became a ranking member of the Senate Special Committee on Aging, replacing former Sen. Mel Martinez.^[32] On September 30, 2009 Corker described Canada as being "parasitic" for siphoning U.S. dollars to that country with low prescription drug prices. He stated that "In essence, the Canadian government and its citizens are taking advantage of our citizens by virtue of setting prices that are lower than competitive prices."^[33]

Corker opposed President Barack Obama's health reform legislation; he voted against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in December 2009,^[34] and he voted against the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010.^[35]

In late February 2010, Corker took a decidedly less bipartisan turn when he became the sole senator to back retiring Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky in filibustering a 30-day extension of expiring unemployment and COBRA benefits.^[36]

On May 20, 2010, despite his initial role as the key Republican negotiator on financial regulatory reform, Corker voted against the Senate Financial Regulations Bill that if passed would increase scrutiny of financial derivatives traded by major U.S. banks and financial institutions.^[37] Senator Corker does not believe that the government should regulate markets more carefully, but rather that they should be regulated by current laws already on the books. Senator Corker supports the view of many conservatives that the Glass Steagall Act should not be reimplemented.^[38] Senator Corker has been a vocal opponent of financial regulations passed by the Senate in 2010.^[37] He also opposes limits to credit card fees imposed by banks on merchant transactions.^[39] The main critique of financial reform offered by Corker on June 10, 2010 at the joint House and Senate conference on Financial Regulation was that it would hurt industry and jobs if passed. Corker offered no evidence for his contention that regulating derivatives would impose constraints on the financial recovery of the United States.^[40]

Senator Corker was one of three Republicans to support the New STrategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in September 2010.^[41]

Committee assignments[link]

• Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs^[42]
  • Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development
  • Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance and Investment
  • Subcommittee on Security and International Trade and Finance (Ranking Member)
• Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
  • Subcommittee on Energy
  • Subcommittee on National Parks
  • Subcommittee on Public Lands and Forests
• Committee on Foreign Relations
  • Subcommittee on African Affairs
  • Subcommittee on European Affairs
  • Subcommittee on International Development and Foreign Assistance, Economic Affairs,
    and International Environmental Protection (Ranking Member)
  • Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs
• Special Committee on Aging (Ranking Member)

2012 Senate campaign[link]

Corker may face tough race in 2012 GOP primary. On February 2011, at the Public Policy Polling, congresswoman Marsha Blackburn took 30 percentage points of the vote against Corker's 50 percent, but another indefinite conservative challenger took 43 percentage points of the vote against Corker's 38 percent.^[43] Blackburn's divisive partisan ideology has not enough support bases in “establishment-oriented” East Tennessee, the state's traditional Republican heartland.^[44] In 2006 GOP primary, Corker defeated her predecessor former congressman Ed Bryant by 14 percentage points.^[10] This promoted the candidacy of the different type's Republican challenger. On early 2012, five straw polls at Tea Party events in Middle and West Tennessee showed Tea party candidate Zach Poskevich beating Corker by 52 percentage points. On February 2012, at the Tennessee Republican Assembly convention, Poskevich took 87 percentage points of the vote against Corker's only 13 percent. Poskevich said, "As people become aware of Bob Corker's (voting) record they realize he's not a true conservative".^[45]　

Political positions[link]

In the 2006 Senate race, Corker positioned himself as a conservative on most social and economic issues through television advertisements, his campaign website, and in debates.

Corker scored 83% on American Conservative Union’s 2008 Ratings of Congress.^[46] According to National Journal’s 2009 Vote Ratings, he was ranked as the 34th conservative member among the 40 GOP senators.^[47]

111th Congress

• National Journal: 66% Conservative^[48]
  • Economic: 29% Liberal / 69% Conservative
  • Social issue: 29% Liberal / 70% Conservative
  • Foreign-policy: 41% Liberal / 56% Conservative
• Americans for Democratic Action: 10% (Liberal Score)^[49]
• National Taxpayers Union: 83% (Grade: B; Rank: 24)^[50]

Republican Main Street Partnership controversy[link]

On December 6, 2006, Roll Call reporter Nicole Duran reported that Senator-elect Corker and Dean Heller (Rep.-elect, NV) would be joining the moderate Republican Main Street Partnership, according to its executive director.^[51] This caused a stir in conservative circles, since Corker ran in Tennessee as a conservative, and several bloggers accused him of betraying his promises. By the end of the day, however, Corker's office responded to the report to say that not only was he was not joining the organization, but that he "only learned of the group’s existence when this story was reported today."^[52] Roll Call subsequently reported that the group's executive director stated she had been "misinformed", and only Heller would be joining the group.^[53]

Social policy[link]

Corker with U.S. Representatives Jim Cooper, Bart Gordon and Zach Wamp

In the 2006 primary campaign, Corker's opponents said that he has changed his view on abortion since his first Senate campaign in 1994.^[54] Corker responded that he "was wrong in 1994" when he said that the government should not interfere with an individual's right to an abortion, stating that he now believes that life begins at conception.^[54] Corker now says he opposes abortion rights except when the life of the mother is endangered or in cases of rape and incest.^[54] In the 2006 general election, Corker received the endorsement of the National Right to Life Committee, but the state branch of the group, Tennessee Right to Life, refused to endorse him, calling him a "pro-abortion" politician.^[55]

Corker supports broad Second Amendment rights and "appointing Federal judges who practice judicial restraint."

Fiscal policy[link]

He supports making the 2001 tax cut and the 2003 tax cut permanent.^[56] He has shown interest in replacing the federal progressive income tax with a flat tax.^[57]

Corker has expressed skepticism regarding the claims of human-caused global warming. He favors imposing a tax on carbon.^[58] Corker opposed John McCain's 2008 campaign proposal to suspend the 18-cents-per-gallon federal gasoline tax, calling it "pandering extraordinaire".^[59]

He chose to endorse the initial $350 billion (2008) of Wall Street bailout money,^[60] and opposed releasing additional $350 billion (2009) of it.^[61]

In 2011, Corker voted in favor of the Republican alternative budget proposed by Representative Paul Ryan (R-Wis.), a proposal that would eliminate the health care provided through the Medicare program and instead give seniors subsidies for part of the cost of obtaining private medical insurance.^[62] Corker referred to such programs as Medicare and Social Security as "generational theft".^[63]

Foreign policy[link]

Corker has become a defender of the Iraqi war since taking his seat in the 110th Congress. Despite frustration by the public, any further reduction in U.S. forces in Iraq must be based on improved conditions in the country, Corker said. He urged ultimate success will be determined by the Iraqi government, over which the U.S. has limited control, and the withdrawal of some of the troops that were added in 2007 has created some pressure on the Iraqi government, but warned that further cuts now could destabilize the country.^[64]

Corker denied Democrat’s Afghan war strategy which boosts civilian efforts to rebuild the impoverished country and places nuclear-armed Pakistan at the center of the fight: "I have no idea what it is, other than sending additional troops. I hope we dig a lot deeper," said Corker.^[65] He expected that the United States is having to build the economic and governmental structure of Afghanistan after decades of war.^[66]

Controversies[link]

Sale of protected wetlands[link]

Corker speaks at the Brentwood Cool Springs Chamber of Commerce breakfast in 2010.

In 2003, Corker's real estate company sold protected wetlands near South Chickamauga Creek in Chattanooga to Wal-Mart for $4.6 million while he was mayor of Chattanooga.^[67] According to Joe Prochaska, an attorney representing the Tennessee Environmental Council, "What they did was outrageous. They just ran roughshod over this public property for private gain."^[67] Environmental educator Sandy Kurtz filed suit in 2003 to stop the land deal, but the lawsuit was dismissed.^[67]

New allegations, however, surfaced in August 2006, and a suit was filed by Kurtz and the Tennessee Environmental Council accusing Wal-Mart of encroaching onto an adjacent protected nature area that is also held by a company owned by Corker.^[67] The suit alleges that Corker did not fully disclose his interest in the property where the Wal-Mart was built or in the adjacent nature area at the time the deal was made.^[67] The Corker campaign has countered that Corker's company filed papers to develop the wetlands in 2000, before Corker became mayor, and that it was widely known that Corker had an interest in the property.^[67]

On September 18, 2006, a Memphis, Tennessee newspaper, The Commercial Appeal, reported that Corker's attorneys acquired city authorization to cut a road through the protected property owned by Corker in July 2003 while Corker was mayor.^[68] City records show that Corker's attorneys won concessions from the city as details of the deal were worked out, much of which was done in private.^[68]

Corker's campaign manager has said that a blind trust kept Corker from the details of the project.^[68]

On October 13, 2006, lawyers involved in the case announced a settlement agreement. Details of the settlement were not announced, but court records indicate that a portion of the settlement involved a 45-day option for the Tennessee Environmental Council to purchase over 13 acres (53,000 m²) of the land in dispute that the Council hopes to dedicate for public use.^[69]

Missing papers[link]

On September 9, 2006, The Commercial Appeal reported that official records from both Corker's 2001 to 2005 service as mayor and his 1996 service as state finance commissioner are missing.^[70] The missing records include letters written and received by Corker during a six month period in 1996 and e-mails written and received by Corker in his official capacity as mayor between 2001 and 2005.^[70]

Some of the e-mails were discovered on his former assistant's computer by The Commercial Appeal in October 2006.^[71]

Blind trust[link]

On October 11, 2006, The Commercial Appeal reported that the blind trust that Corker set up to run his businesses to avoid conflicts of interest while he was mayor "may not have been all that blind".^[71] According to e-mails discovered by the Appeal (some of which had previously presumed to be lost):

"Corker met often with employees from his private companies while mayor from 2001 to 2005, and he shared business tips with others. Corker also got help organizing his 2001 mayoral campaign from City Hall, where a government secretary passed on voting lists and set up meetings for the millionaire commercial real estate developer."^[71]

The e-mails show that Corker often met with officials from his private company, the Corker Group, which was part of the blind trust, while he was mayor.^[71] When asked about these e-mails by the Appeal, Corker said that he thought the blind trust had "worked very well" and that he had sold most of his business holdings so that he could avoid the appearance of conflicts of interest in the Senate.^[71]

Electoral history[link]

See also[link]

conservatism portal

Footnotes[link]