Yes-or-no questions don't always get an easy answer from U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann and his Republican challengers.

Weston Wamp questioned U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann's congressional credentials during an aggressive debate Monday, attempting to define Fleischmann as an inflexible creature of Washington in the fight for the Republican nomination in Tennessee's 3rd Congressional District.

Weston Wamp questioned U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann’s congressional credentials during an aggressive debate on Monday, attempting to define Fleischmann as an inflexible creature of Washington in the fight for the Republican nomination in Tennessee’s 3rd Congressional District.

When Ruth Maxwell walks her class down the hall to the Nolan Elementary School cafeteria, she holds up a bathroom plunger for all to see.

An incumbent, two challengers and the voters they're courting will meet Monday in the first debate of an unusual 3rd Congressional District Republican primary.

Tennessee Democratic Party officials are renewing accusations of "pay-to-play politics" in U.S. Rep. Scott DesJarlais' office.

Republican congressional candidate Scottie Mayfield called Medicaid recipients "non-taxpayers" in a position paper released Wednesday.

Scottie Mayfield celebrated U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann's voting record Monday, downplaying a shared political philosophy between himself and the man he wants to beat.

On the campaign trail, most politicians grip, grin and act like it's not too big a favor: "Appreciate your vote!"

U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann and two of his challengers, Ron Bhalla and Weston Wamp, said they will participate in a 3rd Congressional District Republican primary debate sponsored by the Chattanooga Times Free Press and WRCB Channel 3.

U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann and two of his challengers, Ron Bhalla and Weston Wamp, said they would participate in a 3rd Congressional District Republican primary debate sponsored by the Chattanooga Times Free Press and WRCB-TV.

Moments into a campaign speech at the Shoney’s in Harriman, Tenn., last week, U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann roasted the federal agency responsible for spending more than $800,000 on a four-day conference in Las Vegas that included a mind reader and a circus clown.

A top Kingston, Tenn., police official denied giving "special treatment" to Michael Mayfield after admitting he changed Mayfield's initial court date from May to Aug. 27 -- three weeks after an election that Mayfield's father must win to reach Congress.

Aides for U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann appear to be embracing a re-election strategy that sells the congressman as a self-made man and dismisses his opponents as anything but.

He's not debating, speaking or even appearing in public anytime soon, but Scottie Mayfield's congressional campaign rejected rumors of its own demise five days after police said the dairy executive's 33-year-old son slashed a rival aide's tire at a campaign event.

After spending a week on damage control amid a pair of video bombshells, GOP congressional hopeful Scottie Mayfield has a chance to set a policy-driven tone at an upcoming Chattanooga Tea Party debate.

Scottie Mayfield's son will face a vandalism charge in court four months after the alleged offense and three weeks after his father faces a crucial election.

Scottie Mayfield apologized to U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann “and to the voters” after his 33-year-old son confessed to slashing a Fleischmann staffer’s tire at a Mayfield campaign event.

The Kingston Police Department today formally charged Scottie Mayfield’s son in connection with an incident involving a staffer for U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann.

What 9-year-old North Georgia boy isn't ready for fun at Lake Winnepesaukah?

A staffer for U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann ended up with a damaged tire at a recent campaign event for opponent Scottie Mayfield, and officials said video evidence shows the culprit came from Mayfield's bus.

Congressional candidate Weston Wamp declined Tuesday to say whether his younger sister recorded or posted online a video titled “Scottie Mayfield Struggles to Answer Basic Questions.”

Matthew Deniston, the only independent candidate in Tennessee's 3rd Congressional District race, said he'll refuse the customary $174,000 congressional salary and work for free if he wins.

U.S. Reps. Scott DesJarlais and Chuck Fleischmann secured re-election endorsements Friday from a top Republican in the U.S. House, but only DesJarlais got the nod from Fleischmann's hometown senator, a former Chattanooga mayor.

U.S. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, R-Va., endorsed two local Republican incumbents, U.S. Reps. Scott DesJarlais and Chuck Fleischmann, at a DesJarlais fundraiser this morning at the Chattanooga Golf and Country Club.

A video posted online Wednesday shows GOP candidate Scottie Mayfield saying he must get elected to Congress before he elaborates on what he wants to do there.

Tennessee has blocked three medical professionals from billing the TennCare program after they prescribed excessive amounts of psychiatric drugs and addictive painkillers, officials said.

There are two worlds in Tennessee's newly reconfigured 3rd Congressional District.

Nearly half the contributions to Scottie Mayfield's congressional campaign came from individuals living in incumbent U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann's home county of Hamilton.

Three Republican Tennessee lawmakers, including U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, used campaign donations to pay salaries to their family members during the last two election cycles, according to a new report.

U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann on Thursday said he can’t figure out why dairy magnate Scottie Mayfield is challenging him in the Republican primary in Tennessee’s 3rd Congressional District.

Congress has a 12 percent approval rating, but two area incumbents seem happy to be linked with its most powerful leaders.

It's a happy Easter in the land of milk and money. Dairy executive Scottie Mayfield said he raised $450,648 in the first seven weeks of his inaugural run for office, setting a quarterly fundraising record in Tennessee's 3rd Congressional District and positioning himself as a serious challenger to U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Tenn.

U.S. Sen. Bob Corker on Thursday gave a 62-second response to a question on whether he would accept an offer to be the Republican presidential nominee’s running mate. In all that time, he never said no.

The Chuckabee strategy is back. Last week, about 7,000 3rd Congressional District households in Tennessee received a letter signed by former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee.

Weston Wamp said he raised $175,133 in the year's first political fundraising quarter, potentially narrowing the vast financial distance between him and U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann.

On the final day of a political fundraising quarter that included a $2,500-per-plate dinner for U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Tenn., Democratic challenger Bill Taylor invited donors to shoot guns for 100 times less.

U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann is ranked No. 3 on The Washington Post’s list of the top 10 House incumbents who could lose their primaries this year.

Scottie Mayfield is staffing up. On Friday, the Athens, Tenn., dairy executive announced Paul K. Brock Jr. will serve as Hamilton County finance committee chairman for Mayfield's congressional campaign. Brock is an investment executive with a long history in Chattanooga.

The youngest person ever elected to the Chattanooga City Council said he’s more than a Democrat angling for higher office. “There are no Republican ideas and there are no Democratic ideas,” 32-year-old Andraé McGary said Friday.

Chattanooga City Councilman Andraé McGary will resign his duties as a talk radio show host to run for the state Senate seat being vacated by Andy Berke.

The two Democrats vying for U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann's job say their chances are realistic.

On March 22, the Hamilton County Republican Party passed a policy that allows qualified candidates to use party resources to promote campaign events. Four days later, Weston Wamp requested help.

For most Americans, the milestones of youth happen at 16 (driving), 18 (voting) and 21 (drinking). For Weston Wamp, 25 is a bigger deal.

Scottie Mayfield dumped the cow, but he kept her colors. So far, spurning the red, white and blue of most Republican campaign materials, Mayfield is embracing the yellow-and-brown ubiquity of Mayfield Dairy in his first run for office.

Representatives from Occupy Chattanooga, whose tents were removed from the Hamilton County Courthouse lawn on Monday, appeared before county commissioners Wednesday to challenge the actions of Chairman Larry Henry and Sheriff Jim Hammond.

Chattanooga developer Greg Vital has qualified for the Republican primary in the state Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Andy Berke.

ATHENS, Tenn. — Six weeks into his congressional campaign, Scottie Mayfield said he couldn't identify a single issue where he differs from U.S Rep. Chuck Fleischmann -- the man he's trying to beat.

Chattanooga's first congressional debate of the year will not include the GOP's U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, Scottie Mayfield or Weston Wamp. Instead, it'll feature the Democrats hoping to stop them.

U.S. Rep. Chuck Fleischmann and his Republican challengers are staging high-dollar fundraisers to fatten their campaign bank accounts before the year’s first financial quarter concludes on March 31.