Mayor Bill Haslam is defending a campaign ad in which he claims to have created 11,000 jobs while serving as president of Pilot.
The Associated Press counts nearly half of those jobs as coming from mergers and acquisitions with other truck stop chains, and apparently only a fraction of them were created within the state.
Two major opponents for the GOP nomination, Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey and U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp, are trying to make an issue out of Haslam's claim and his failure to disclose earnings from Pilot. But Haslam is holding his ground on both, saying that through the mergers and acquisitions he saved jobs that would have been cut, and that disclosing his earnings would reveal information about family members and company strategy. Here's the ad in question:
The Associated Press counts nearly half of those jobs as coming from mergers and acquisitions with other truck stop chains, and apparently only a fraction of them were created within the state.
Two major opponents for the GOP nomination, Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey and U.S. Rep. Zach Wamp, are trying to make an issue out of Haslam's claim and his failure to disclose earnings from Pilot. But Haslam is holding his ground on both, saying that through the mergers and acquisitions he saved jobs that would have been cut, and that disclosing his earnings would reveal information about family members and company strategy. Here's the ad in question:
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