Gov. Bill Haslam says voters have all the information they need on U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais. Photo credit Blake Farmer/WPLN
Governor Bill Haslam is keeping his distance from fellow Republican Scott DesJarlais. The congressman representing Murfreesboro and Columbia has been battling revelations that he urged a mistress to have an abortion 12 years ago.
A few weeks ago, Governor Haslam said he didn’t want to weigh in until he spoke to DesJarlais. Haslam still hasn’t talked to the freshman congressman, blaming a busy schedule. But he also says voters know all they need to know and aren’t waiting to hear his two cents.
“The story of that election has been well discussed in all the papers. I don’t know that there’s a whole lot that I can add. At this point in time, we’re four days from voters in the district getting to decide, and I think that’s the best way to do that.”
The Tennessee Democratic Party is still trying to make hay of DesJarlais’s divorce and history as a physician.
This week, DesJarlais’s current wife fired back, telling the Knoxville News Sentinel that the man she’s read about in divorce documents “is not the husband I’ve had for the last 10 years.”
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