[edsheppa]

Yes, of course I read it. He voted against the reconciliation package in December (because it wasn't tough enough) but for the final bill in March.

Why the GOP can't find good candidates this year is a mystery.

[libstripper]

If you're so concerned with honesty, you ought to look at Ford's whole campaign. He's run many slickly produced ads here in east Tennessee where he talks almost as though he were a conservative Republican. None of those ads even mentions the little fact that he's a Democrat. That's what's known as deliberate lying by concealment of a material fact. His final vote for the Patriot Act was the same kind of slick, disingenuous trick.