I really don’t think ‘I can’t talk about it’ plays well in a close fought election, does it?
Republican U.S. Senate nominee Bob Corker said Wednesday he was forbidden from talking about a settlement in a lawsuit that challenged how a city conservation easement became an access road to commercial property his company sold while he was mayor.
“We are not even allowed” to talk about it, Corker said, citing a deal between “number of parties that have been involved” as plaintiffs and defendants.
The agreement in the three-year environmental lawsuit has extended the mystery for voters in his race against Democratic U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr. of Memphis. The Democrat’s campaign seized on the issue Wednesday.
“It was public land belonging to the people of Chattanooga and Tennessee. They deserve to know if Bob Corker destroyed it to make millions and then wrote a check to avoid having to tell the truth about it in a deposition,” Ford campaign spokesman Tom Lee said.
But don’t worry. Corker insists the need for secrecy is “absolutely” not political.
