WPLN News Archive; Senate Candidate Shannon Wood (Adrienne) 7 5 00; News Archive 7/5/00-8/17/00

i'm running for united states senate needs to evaluate their vehicles last week shannon wood attended the great democratic style been suppers and a trim and a donor today she's campaigning at the dial says senior citizen center highlighting her differences with the republican incumbent united states senator bill frist all the men play pool at the center would work the room introducing herself to every person there is a finalist in the primary that on august third it's a little reminder in your fire again and then in the fall of evidence that position and as moses says they invited their doctors on salary we're not happy with how he's been gotten so far out there campaigning no but you know what i'm not willing to give up on democracy just as he's got more money went to campaign for democracy as she likes to call it started last year once again the senators' in tennessee had voted against something that i live in which was the nuclear test ban treaty astounding research analyst it wasn't just me that was disgruntled with this

that the majority of people in tennessee in the majority of people in america support this treaty an end why were our senators voting against it so i started watching very closely the race with your first and i became very concerned because he had spent ten million dollars in its last races local who's going to take on this man at such great odds with signed up for the job when no one with the name and the funding to match challenged first before she can compete with found out she has to win the democratic nomination for other candidates seek it including mary taylor shelby john j cook or jeff clark and james loney she's as hooker and clark are the only other candidate she seemed on the trail and she's the only one campaigning on all the issues this information all talk about where i stand exactly and healthcare and pharmaceutical coverage for medicare patients which i think means desperately need to have i'll talk about why stand on public education and more funding for it and i think we need to find more teachers and fixing our older public schools and

before nafta care programs all time robin pro choice i am a pro choice candidate i won't step back from that or waffle or gets rented bush about that i am for gun safety now the real clear about that to anybody that wants to can go to my website which is to be the vw dutch shannon for senate dotcom and m look up where i stand on the issues if you've got a question you can email me and said you need an address this i wanna know where you stand on this issue and will respond to that tennessee has one of the worst records in the nation for electing women to office the state has set just for women to the united states house of representatives and nine to the senate statistics prove however that women vote for women would believes if she can get more women like gina erickson from the senior center to the polls you're right having a woman running for high political office is enough to try to

catch people's attention and say hey what you know you have an opportunity to have someone representing knew that will understand more of where you're coming from what your issues are and what your concerns are which received money from several health care organizations who she says are being represented a significant number of doctors have donated money to me because in some cases they feel that it's ethically wrong that we have a senator who has millions of dollars of stock in the proportions begin with an encyclical as a doctor who's in the position of making these decisions about at most and he clearly has a conflict of interest while she's never held office which deals or background as owner of nashville's controversy or dark or speed or probes her record of representing a wide range of views i feel like i've been politically active for a long time in that i have a theater where we invite anyone to come and perform we've had the willful women come and they've talked about issues regarding sexism and the racism and things and we've had the eggplant very players and then we have a community theater groups and professional theater groups

command an and they also get to present their view of something that they might not otherwise be able to speak out about why she eagerly awaits to debate her democratic opponent this week in knoxville would keep campaigning asking for one that is