Posted on 07/31/2006 7:24:18 AM PDT by SmithL
A fund-raiser for U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr., Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, will be 5:30-7:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Tennessee Theatre, a major event in an election that is drawing national attention.
Those contributing will be "credited" for another event in Nashville on Thursday, Election Day, where former President Bill Clinton will join Ford at LP Field, the Titans' stadium, for a "road to victory" rally.
The cost for the Knoxville reception is $150 as a patron, $1,000 as a sponsor and $5,000 as a host. Gov. Phil Bredesen is expected to attend the Knoxville reception, said state Rep. Joe Armstrong, D-Knoxville.
Lawyer Don Bosch, among the hosts for the Knoxville reception, said Ford's run against whoever wins the Republican nomination on Thursday has been identified by the Democratic National Committee "as one of the most important (races) in the country." Ford has no major opposition in the Democratic primary.
"They (the DNC) will very much be supporting economically and any other way possible for Congressman Ford to be our next senator. They, like many of us in Tennessee, understand that it is time for a new kind of leadership, and we believe Harold Ford Jr. represents that possibility," Bosch said.
Ford's support from national political figures like Clinton has already drawn criticism from Republicans that will likely continue until the November general election. To that criticism, Ford's communications director, Carol Andrews, said that Ford is a conservative Democrat who supports a balanced budget, low taxes on middle-class families, a strong border security plan, low college tuition rates and public display of the Ten Commandments and the Second Amendment, which guarantees the right of people to keep and bear arms.
"President Clinton is a friend of Harold Ford Jr.'s and a friend to Tennesseans, who helped elect (Clinton) twice because they appreciated the fact that he balanced the budget, eliminated welfare as an entitlement and created more than 20 million new jobs. And finally, Bill Clinton took care of our nation's veterans, something the Republican leadership in Washington has not done," Andrews said in a statement.
REPUBLICANS HERE, TOO: The three major contenders for the GOP nomination for the U.S. Senate also will campaign in Knoxville on Wednesday.
A final primary election reception at $100 per person will be held for Bob Corker, former Chattanooga mayor, 6-7:30 p.m. at the home of Dee and Jimmy Haslam, 5020 Lyons View Pike. Jimmy Haslam is Corker's statewide finance chairman.
Among the 90-plus hosts for the event are state Sen. Tim Burchett, R-Knoxville; state Rep. Doug Overbey, R-Maryville; and Bill Woodson, husband of state Sen. Jamie Woodson, R-Knoxville.
Former U.S. Rep. Ed Bryant of Jackson will have a rally at his headquarters, 1637 Downtown West Blvd., Suite 14, at 5 p.m. He'll also be hitting some polling locations on Thursday, but they are still to be determined, spokesman Andrew Shulman said.
Former U.S. Rep. Van Hilleary of Murfreesboro will campaign in Knoxville on Wednesday, but his schedule was still being determined on Sunday, spokeswoman Jennifer Coxe said.
CONSERVATIVE WINNER: Ed Bryant won a straw poll among the GOP Senate candidates of some 400 people at the Tennessee Conservative Union's Reagan Day dinner on Saturday night with 38 percent of the vote, chairman Lloyd Daugherty said. Those paying $100 for their ticket were eligible to vote, he said.
Bob Corker received 32 percent of the vote and Van Hilleary, 30 percent.
Daugherty said attendees also were asked their top choices on issues.
Getting the most votes was border security with 21 percent; national defense, 14 percent; taxes, 13 percent; abortion, 3.7 percent and gay marriage, 2 percent.
ELECTION NIGHT PARTIES: The Knox County Republican Party will have a "Victory 2006 Election Watch" beginning at 8 p.m. Thursday at the Crowne Plaza on Summit Hill Drive.
The Knox County Democratic Party will be at a party at 8 p.m. at Shonos in City on Market Square, spokesman Will Minter said. The event is being hosted by the "orange ballot" challengers who pledge to "respect the term limits approved by voters." The group is mostly Democrats but includes one Republican and two Independents.
NAMES IN THE POLITICAL NEWS: Jim Henry, former House minority leader and Kingston mayor, is among the finance co-chairs assisting state Sen. Jim Bryson, R-Franklin, in his race for the Republican nomination for governor. Other co-chairs from the area are Darrell Akins, Fred Lawson and Steve West of Maryville.
I guess Clinton is getting tired of his bimbos...
Still have to ask:
What perentage of the gate goes to
Clinton?
LIES LIES LIES
Just look at his voting record!
2005: Overseas Military Facilities Abortion Amendment voted YES; (Vote to adopt an amendment that lifts the ban on privately funded abortions at U.S. military facilities overseas)
from a recent Ken Mehlman stop in TN:
During a stop last week in Chattanooga, Mehlman was quoted as saying Ford has a "100 percent National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL) voting record."
Ford, a Democratic congressman from Memphis, insisted Mehlman's statement is false.
In a short phone interview after the conference call, Ford described his record on abortion as being similar to newly installed Supreme Court Justice John Roberts "in that I respect the law of the land."
That's code for "keep abortion legal", "keep your laws off my body" and every Feminazi slogan I can think of.
"Bill Clinton gets behind Ford's race"
That ought to help, especially in a red state such as Tennessee.
Ed Bryant is a veteran, an articulate conservative with a strong congressional record as a constitutional constructionist.
Mr. Bryant is a veteran who served our nation as an Army officer for six years after college, who taught constitutional law at West Point, who became a successful attorney — and later was nominated by — President Bush(41) and confirmed as a U.S. Attorney for the District of West Tennessee (Demo Rep. Harold Ford's territory). Bryant resigned that post in protest in 1992 after Bill Clinton's attorney general, Janet Reno, pressured him to move the corruption trial of Harold Ford, Sr., from Jackson to Memphis, where the corrupt Ford political dynasty would find a far friendlier jury. Bryant was then elected to the U.S. House, where he served five terms until stepping down in 2002. He has well established conservative credentials, including his congressional voting record.
In an unusual move ahead of a primary election, Bryant has received endorsements from Senators Tom Coburn (R-OK), Sam Brownback (R-KS), John Ensign (R-NV), Trent Lott (R-MS) and Thad Cochran (R-MS). His candidacy has been endorsed by former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, under whom Bryant served. He also has the backing of many leading organizations, including the American Council for Immigration Reform, Concerned Women for America, Tennessee Right to Life, Home School Legal Defense Association, Madison Project and the National Coalition of Conservative Republicans.
Good luck with that in TN BUBBA. Ford is toast!
I see he's still painting pictures of Hell.
Perhaps they should hand out copies of this dead-on article from the dark times:
http://www.chron.com/cgi-bin/auth/story.mpl/content/chronicle/editorial/98/03/11/greenberg2500873_0-1.html
I fear your allusion is much to subtle! ;0)
Whoever wins the Republican nomination will be the next senator from TN.
Has Al Bore campaigned for Ford yet???
After all Bore is so popular in Tennessee.
"What is wrong with the Republican Party? U.S. Senate candidate Bob Corker is the poster child for what is wrong with the Republican Party. Corker attempted to have the conservative Republican legislator in his own district unseated. He, his wife, his mother, his father, his key employees and their wives (and the list goes on), all gave maximum allowable donations to unseat that Republican. I know, because that legislator was me. Corker raised $40,000 for my opponent, and when he lost, Corker warned me that he was capable of raising over $100,000 to unseat me the next time if I publicly complained. In 2004, Corker refused to help Tennessee's Republican legislators, but raised more than $50,000 for the Tennessee Black Caucus, a very liberal group including Sen. Roscoe Dixon, Rep. Katherine Bowers and Sen. John Ford (the latter is the corrupt kingpin of the Ford political dynasty in Memphis, and the uncle of Democrat U.S. Senate candidate Harold Ford, Jr.). In 2005, Dixon, Bowers and Ford were all indicted in an FBI public corruption sting. In 2006, Corker helped raise over $600,000 for a liberal Democrat to fill the Chattanooga mayoral seat he vacated in order to step up to the U.S. Senate. (Fortunately, that candidate also lost.) Tennessee's Democrat House Speaker Jimmy Naifeh once said, 'Bob Corker is a Democrat deep down.' Let it never be said Corker is not a team player. He's just not playing for our team." —Tennessee State Legislator, Chattanooga
Unless it's gone up 70% since 2003, that would be a mistake. The three TN Republicans seem to be fairly solidly anti-murder, though.
I wonder if Ken Mehlman would bring up abortion when supporting people like Lincoln Chafee, Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Arlen Specter...
60 per cent in 2005. Funny that Ford's web site used old stats that were lower-- he's trying to position himself as a conservative Democrat in order to win statewide.
All six Tennessee Republicans had a "zero" rating in the same year.
Chafee 65
Specter 20
Collins 55
Snowe 55
http://www.vote-smart.org/issue_rating_detail.php?sig_id=004074M
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