Sarah Lodge Tally's employer scratches Nashville Business Coalition's back; NBC scratches Tally's back

Ah, campaign finance and political action committees. And I think to myself, "What a wonderful world":

Sarah Lodge Tally's law firm PAC contributed $2,500 to NBC PAC a month ago

2 weeks later NBC donated $1,000 to the Sarah Lodge Tally campaign

Miller & Martin lawyers had already made many individual donations to their colleague, Sarah Lodge Tally, during the reporting period from April to June this year. The rich get richer.

Council candidates ardently welcome conservative business group's endorsements

During a chat with Megan Barry soon after her 2007 election over coffee, she told me that a star-chamber-like panel of members of the Nashville Business Coalition had called candidates in one-by-one to grill them with litmus test questions about allowing unregulated LED advertisement signs in neighborhoods. I had not paid much attention to them, but I came away from our chat with the impression that NBC is the extremist wing of the Nashville Chamber of Commerce, which itself is not exactly averse to opposing regulation of business.

Some of NBC's tests for local candidates include the latter's preferential option for untrammeled business growth: