Rep. Tim Burchett

And I remember the University of Tennessee, this liberal professor gave his kids extra credit if they would come pick at me.

And they came down there and they brought neighborhood people down there and they had misspelled words in their signs, you know, and they'd park their BMWs around the side and they could come pick at me to look like they were just... And they all dressed down.

It was the most pathetic thing.

And the

And I remember the person at the city that was really orchestrating it all against me was, I remember seeing them hug the reporter that was writing all the nasty articles about me.

And I just, the whole thing was just, and I saw, I see Americans getting run down the road.

And I think that's why people like me appeal.

There's not a lot of folks like me, obviously in Congress, but folks like me appeal to people because they've been run over and they know they can call me

And I'm not judgmental.

I just say, I don't care if they vote for me or not.

I have people that are convicted felons, people that have killed people before, and I've helped them out.

Because I don't care.

Because I see the system.

It ran over me.

And I was just some white middle-class kid from West Knoxville.

And the system ran me over.

They flew, from what I understand, a couple people were flown to D.C.

I know one apparently was, and I think the other one was, and they either called me or called somebody else and said, you know, no, Tim's a good man.

Why?

Because I rocked the boat.