From The Dean, on a mailer going out in East Tennessee:

"You thought you knew Eddie Yokley, but Eddie says one thing in Greene County and does something different in Nashville," declares the mailer. It includes a black-and-white photo of Yokley with a grim expression on his face and a copy of the printed roll call vote on HB1756 with his name circled under the list of those voting no.

"This is shameless and too far," said Brandon Puttbrese, communications director for the Tennessee Democratic Party. "Would these pathetic politicians rather see young women and children die from preventable diseases than see Eddie Yokley in the state House?"

The bill in question was aimed at Planned Parenthood from receiving funding for providing "women's health services" in Shelby and Davidson counties. The services provided under those contracts included contraception along with disease treatment and prevention, but did not include abortions.

As Puttbrese noted, taxpayer funding of abortions is otherwise prohibited by Tennessee law and has been for years.