Phil Big-Bucks
It must irk Phil Bredesen to no end. He's a Harvard PHD, after all, yet he's losing to a guy he probably considers an ignorant rube from the sticks. He knows UT would beat Harvard in football, sure, but surely not in debate.

So there's Van Hilleary running ads telling people the truth about Bredesen - he raised taxes three times, for example - and Bredesen doesn't like it. So, he says, never mind the law is the law and never mind that no court of jurisdiction has yet ruled the law is unconstitutional, he's gonna break the law so he can run more ads.

Bad move, Phil. Now you don't just look like a multi-millionaire HMO healthcare profiteer who likes to raise taxes and use other people's money to give buildings to other rich people. Now you look like you're an arrogant spoiled brat who is trying to buy the governorship.