Rep. Matthew Hill: Routing Inbound Campaign Calls To State Employee/Executive Legislative Assistant

It appears Rep. Hill is once again atttempting to shift some of his campaign costs onto the backs of Tennessee taxpayers, this time by routing his 2006 campaign web site generated telephone calls to Joan Achuff in Nashville. The following excerpt is from the Contact page at http://www.matthewlistens.com/contact.asp :

Nashville Address
107 War Memorial Bldg.
Nashville, Tennessee 37243
Phone: (615)741-2251
Email: Matthew@MatthewListens.com
Contact: Joan Achuff

The Hill Boy's Deception blog posted information about Hill bringing in Nashvillian Achuff for a weekend into during a scheduled 2005 political, non-legislative event in Johnson City:

Hilly Happenings (Joan Achuff, 2005)

In early November, Hilly boy had an open house at exactly the same time as the Northeast Tennessee Republican Club and the Washington County Young Republicans held a barbeque and bluegrass meet and greet. Apparently, Matthew Hill was not invited, or he wanted to try to upstage them.

At Hill's open house, his legislative assistant, Joan Achuff, came to help. Given that Gov. Bredesen has asked the executive branch agencies to reduce unnecessary state travel, I am wondering if Rep. Matthew Hill actually flew in his legislative assistant, Joan Achuff, from Nashville while he attended the Republican barbeque --- Rep. Hill's official web site lists Achuff with a Nashville telephone number, so the assumption is that Achuff is based in Nashville.

# posted by salida stage right

Achuff is listed as Rep. Matthew Hill's "executive constituent services and legislative assistant" within cache files of the Tennessee House GOP web site. You might also care to notice that "Mr. Accessible Hill" has omitted the address of his 7th District constituent services office from being listed at his 2006 campaign web site.

Hill's district office is located (or was formerly located) at 301 Montgomery Street in Johnson City.