Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Bob Corker joined Democrat Harold Ford Jr.'s campaign Friday in denouncing as "reprehensible" a radio commercial attacking Ford and sponsored by a group calling itself "Tennesseans for Truth."
Michael Powell, senior adviser to the Ford campaign, said the campaign's "research people" who monitor advertising had found the ad and, so far as he knew, it has aired only on the one station, WHIN.
The ad is an attack on Ford and his "Washington liberal lobbyist" father, former U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Sr.
"His daddy handed him his seat in Congress and his seat in the Congressional Black Caucus, an all-black group of congressmen who represent the interests of black people above all others," the narrator says in the ad.
"Ford's Congressional Black Caucus secretly prepares and presents their own alternative budget to Congress each year to fund aid to black Americans. Discrimination at its worst," the narrator says.
After other criticism - including, for example, a statement that "no Tennessee college was worthy of Harold Ford Jr.," a University of Michigan graduate - the ad concludes with this line:
"Tennesseans want a color-blind senator, a real Tennessean representing all of us without discrimination."
Powell said little could be learned of the group "Tennesseans for Truth" except that there were indications it was "out of Kentucky." A brief review of state and federal campaign finance records found no organization of that name.
10/16/2006 10:14 AM
MrEd wrote:
Huh, fascinating that they can't find out anything on the group. Obviously, one would want to see if the group shares contributors with Ford's opponent. Reply to this
