We round up the Super PAColypse in the Pith column of this week's print issue (and we'll have more on it later) but for now, a round up of some other mayoral campaign items from yesterday.

• Women In Numbers announced their endorsements Monday, for the mayoral and Metro Council elections. You can read them all here. For mayor, WIN — which describes themselves as "a nonpartisan organization established to engage, encourage and endorse qualified women to be elected to public office" — endorsed Linda Eskind Rebrovick.

That would be less notable if there were only one woman in the race, but there are two, meaning WIN picked Rebrovick over Megan Barry, whose appeals to woman have been much more overt (and whose endorsements include the Women for Tennessee's Future PAC).

The organization doesn't explain their endorsement, either on their site or in a statement sent out by the Rebrovick campaign. Here's what Rebrovick — that's Reb-ruh-vick — had to say though:

“It’s an honor to have WIN’s endorsement and support, and it’s a huge boost to my campaign at a critical time in the race. I want voters to elect me based on my skills and background, but I hope women specifically factor this endorsement in when considering who to vote for.”

• Still, Megan Barry announced an endorsement of her own Monday from Michael Burcham, the founding CEO of the Nashville Entrepreneur Center. He had this to say in a release from the campaign:

“Nashville has grown by leaps and bounds under the leadership of Mayor Karl Dean and Councilmember Megan Barry. I believe that Megan is the best person to continue growing Nashville’s economy while also ensuring that growth is sustainable and affordable so that entrepreneurs and innovators continue to choose to live and work here. I find her actions match her words – whether on issues of equality, transportation, affordable housing, education or fiscal policy.”

In our profile of Barry, we quote Walker Matthews, president of R.C. Mathews Contractor and a self-described conservative who is nevertheless supporting Barry, who has branded herself as a progressive. Burcham would seem to be another in that camp. 

“As a fiscal conservative, I have been impressed by Megan’s ability to use her campaign resources more efficiently and effectively than the other candidates who have spent far more to try and get to where she is,” he says in another statement released by the campaign. 

• Bill Freeman has stayed almost completely above the Super PAC fray over the last couple of weeks, as other campaigns have issued statements and held press releases on the matter. This isn't all that surprising, primarily because the Freeman campaign sees themselves as the frontrunner — a notion reflected in various internal polls, for what they're worth — and would appear to have little to gain by squabbling over some Super PAC mailers. (The campaign did, however, send some operatives to Charles Robert Bone's press conference on the matter). 

What they are doing is continuing the onslaught of television advertising. Here's the latest:

 

 

The ad notes Freeman's support for Universal Pre-K and Community Schools — schools with "before and after school programs, expanded meal services, and health care for students" that also offer those services to the surrounding community. He also talks about gradually increasing the minimum wage, a somewhat misleading claim we've addressed previously. 

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