Ruth Jeno, a Red Bank city commissioner, said Tuesday evening during the legislative group's regular meeting that she recently was invited to attend a banquet for gubernatorial candidate Zach Wamp.
Commissioner Jeno said she also was involved in planning a recent meeting in support of County Commissioner Fred Skillern, who is seeking reelection.
Both candidates seemed pleased by the events in their honor, she noted.
When longtime Rep. Wamp spoke during that meeting, she said, he spoke warmly of the town of Red Bank.
He and his wife, Kim, were married in Red Bank Baptist Church, Commissioner Jeno noted, and have strong ties to the community.
"He really had a lot of good things to say about Red Bank," she told fellow commissioners, urging them and the members of the audience to support Rep.
Wamp because of his strong sense of integrity.
In other action, Mayor Joe Glasscock once again came to the defense of the town's decision to install three traffic cameras, and wondered aloud why that they have received such a negative public reaction.
When police in Dalton recently utilized their traffic cameras to help solve a high-profile crime, Mayor Glasscock noted, their actions were praised.
And when cameras in Coolidge Park were used to help identify instigators of the recent confrontation there between rival youths, that action too was praised, the mayor said.
Yet Red Bank officials have been roundly castigated for doing the same thing, he said.
"I don't know why when somebody else uses traffic cameras they are praised for it, but Red Bank is subjected to constant criticism," he said indignantly. "I hear it everywhere I go."