Rep. Tim Burchett
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And my buddy said, you know, who the heck is that?
And I said, he's a pretty big deal in Nashville.
He said, tell him he ain't in Nashville.
He's in Knoxville.
And I, you know, and I've always remembered that because of,
Now, that guy's a judge who was telling me that, my best friend.
But it was just a wake-up moment that I realized early on that everybody has got this fiefdom-type mentality, and it's who can represent better than me?
Nobody.
And I can tell you right now there's probably –
200,000 people in my district that could probably do a better job than I am.
I'm just hard-headed enough to stick my head out.
Yeah, and they see the security issues now too.
I usually don't eat lunch with my colleagues.
I have a few close friends in Congress.
No.
Yeah, I'd say Chlamydia outranks us.
No, but yeah, there's a bunch of us.
I mean, we see what's going on.
We just shake our head, but it's a lot of frustration though, Tucker.
Yeah, we're in a minority.