Joe Carr has filed his personal financial disclosure with the secretary of the Senate eight months after he was supposed to. What does it tell us?
From the Times-Free Press:
The disclosure form showed most of Carr's income last year came from his salary and per diem allowances as a member of the Tennessee House of Representatives. Carr listed a salary from the state of $28,321.76. Carr says in his campaign website that he and his wife, Ginny, own Cedar Snag Farm, a 95-acre farm near Murfreesboro, and he describes himself as a farmer and small businessman.But the disclosure shows he earned only $2,14.90 last year from cattle sales. In 2013, Carr also worked as a business and marketing consultant for an automotive repair company in Murfreesboro known as TCB, which paid him $19,000 last year.
Carr says he lives on his family farm. But in previous filings with the state Legislature since being elected in 2008, Carr has alternatively said he owns and doesn't own Cedar Snag Farm. Currently, the state Agriculture Department's website listing local farms identifies the owner of Cedar Snag Farm as Bill Jakes, and Carr did not list the farm among his assets.
So, if that's where the majority of his income comes from, does that make Joe Carr a professional politician? Or just a very meager farmer?
