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Thu Apr 25, 2013, 09:11 AM Apr 2013

Pilot Flying J mess could hurt Bill Haslam's political ambitions

our local rag 'the tennessean' calls this a 'mess'. it's fucking criminal. our governor ran this family business for years....

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Three years ago, Bill Haslam could not talk about the family business enough.

In the television ad that introduced Haslam to many Tennessee voters as a Republican candidate for governor, yellowed photographs of Pilot stations — including one with Haslam standing next to his brother, Jimmy, and a pump advertising 54-cent gasoline — rolled past the screen. A narrator introduced the soon-to-be governor as a man who helped build Pilot Travel Centers into the nation’s biggest truck stop chain.

“Working to help his family’s business grow, he spent most of his life on the road,” the ad boasted in the clipped style that became the campaign’s signature. “Handshake to handshake.”

Voters in Tennessee probably will not see many references to Pilot from the Haslam campaign when he runs for a second term next year.

http://www.tennessean.com/article/20130425/NEWS0201/304250057/Pilot-Flying-J-mess-could-hurt-Bill-Haslam-s-political-ambitions

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