Contact Ministries Board Member: Kinda Like His "Jonesborough Coffee Shop Owner" Deal

If an elected official is planning to puff his campaign résumé or his official state biography to demonstrate various personal experiences and accomplishments, you kind of hope that the same office holder in question would have performed these same experiences prior to running for office. Not Tennessee State Representative Matthew Hill.

As an example, Rep. Matthew Hill had started-up his now defunct "Hill of Beans" Coffee Shop in Jonesborough during late March 2004, well into his first election campaign. To his credit, candidate Hill was actually seen (and photographed) at his Hill of Beans Coffee Shop at times that you would have otherwise expected him to be back at 340 Edgemont Avenue doing his full-time 'Appalachian Radio Group' operations manager gig or performing at his other full-time "I am busy running for public office" gig...

Another example is found at the Official Tennessee House of State Representative web page for Rep. Matthew Hill --- Hill is listing his Contact Ministries (EIN 62-104486) board membership, even though the 2003 and 2004 Form 990-EZs filed with the Internal Revenue Service by Contact Ministries reveal that Rep. Hill works "0 [zero] hours per week" as a Contact Ministries board member and that Rep. Hill first started "serving" as a Contact Ministries board member during the year 2004 while campaigning for the Tennessee General Assembly 7th House District seat...