Nashville Business Leaders Rally Around Hartline

Campaign reports “well in excess” of half a million dollars

in contributions & commitments in just the past three weeks

For Immediate Release, May 14, 2010

NASHVILLE – A fast-growing list of Nashville business leaders and executives have already
committed to contribute and raise more than $500,000 for congressional candidate Jeff Hartline’s
campaign for the 5th District congressional seat currently held by Jim Cooper.

The campaign today releases its first weekly update listing finance committee members
supporting Hartline and helping to raise money for his campaign.

“We have contributions and fund-raising commitments already well in excess of half a million
dollars and growing daily,” said Andrew W. “Andy” Miller Jr., the Hartline for Congress campaign
finance committee chairman. Miller is a Nashville venture capitalist and managing director of
HealthMark Ventures LLC.

“I have been doing this a long time and for many campaigns and the friends that I work with
always follow through on their commitments,” Miller said. “Because of the critical nature of this
particular campaign and the positive response to Jeff as a candidate, this group of patriots is
already outperforming their fund-raising commitments. I have never seen this before but it speaks
volumes as to the commitment of this incredible group's will to stop this country's fall into the
fiscal nightmare that is evidenced in Greece.”

Miller said the response the campaign is seeing to its fund-raising efforts is a reaction to Jim
Cooper’s embrace of economic policies that include trillion-dollar budget deficits and out-of-
control entitlements

“This is a prime example of what happens when politicians buy support with promised
entitlements that they have no ability to pay for,” he said. “People are just ready for Jim Cooper to
come home, and for a new representative who will turn away from economic policies that are
covering Americans and their children and grandchildren in a flood of debt.”

Hartline for Congress will release a new list weekly of new members of the campaign finance
committee. Miller today released the first list of people, saying, “There's not a finer group of
people being assembled for the purpose of supporting a congressional candidate than the group
that we have assembled within the past few weeks in support of Jeff Hartline's candidacy for the
5th Congressional district seat.”

On the Hartline for Congress finance committee:

Billy Webb (HealthPort Technologies), Willie Stokes (Davis Stokes Collaborative PC),
Steve Smith (Haury & Smith), Rod Thurley (RV Service and Sales), and Joey Jacobs
(Psychiatric Solutions).

Paid for by Hartline for Congress 2010 Committee, Phil Meadows, Treasurer
Also: Rock Morphis (Heritage Group), Earl Bentz (Triton Boats), Samantha Ray (HCA
Healthcare), Clyde Hutchinson (HealthMark Medical), and Richard Speer (private
investor).

Also: Monty Lankford (TLC Medical), Rick Uselton (Uselton Shooting Sports), Holland
McKinnie (attorney), Clyde Bright (Hollinsworth & Bright), Ralph Drury (The Drury
Group), and Crom Carmichael (private investor).

Also: Mike Conyer (private investor), Jack Tyrell (Richland Partners), Garry Latimer
(Diatech Oncology), Tony Giarratana (Giarratana Development, LLC), and Michael
Whittington (U.S. Air Force, retired).

"The caliber of the people in this group is reflective of the extent to which Jim Cooper has
alienated community leaders with his votes in support of Speaker Pelosi's liberal agenda,” Miller
said. “They share a conviction that Jeff Hartline is the right person to help reverse the affects of
the Cooper-Pelosi policies that are bankrupting our nation and placing greater tax burdens on the
families of the 5th district.”

Miller added that, in addition to the 21 people listed, “there are at least as many more concerned
individuals who are helping to raise money for Hartline’s campaign.”

Hartline said Miller has “moved our campaign into hyperdrive.”

“Andy is a passionate, concerned and dedicated friend who has stepped up to bring together a
solid team of concerned citizens who want to see a different voice representing this district, and
he is continuing to build our finance team into a dynamic force that will make a substantial impact
on the 2010 election and elections to come.”

About Jeff Hartline

Jeff Hartline has started two businesses, worked as a cabinet manufacturer and taught at
Lipscomb University. He is active in church ministry and has long been an active participant in
home-schooling including teaching American history for 13 years and coaching home-schooled
baseball teams, as part of home-school cooperatives.

Learn more about Jeff by visiting his campaign website, HartlineForCongress.com.

Contact: Bill Hobbs

Mesh Media Strategies, Nashville, TN
615.377.2934
billhobbs@meshmediastrategies.com

Paid for by Hartline for Congress 2010 Committee, Phil Meadows, Treasurer