Posted on 10/11/2006 10:50:02 AM PDT by GailA
Beware of Liberals in Conservative guise
US Rep Harold Ford, Jr, the darling of the MSM, including FNC is trying to pass himself off as a moderate or Blue Dog democrat. But if you check with Eagle Forum, American Conservative Union, NRA and other conservative interest groups you will find him with the exception of a few votes voting to the far left just like Nancy Pelosi and Teddy Kennedy.
He thinks our Military are nothing but Oil Cops. He says he's a lawyer, but he has failed to pass the bar examine.
His voting record on abortion is 60-100% in favor of Naral and Planned Parenthood. He has written a letter to support the release to parole a convicted killer (the man helped to kidnap, raped, knifed, and stuff Deborah Groseclose in the trunk of her car in a murder for hire (husband) where she cooked to death). Then blamed his staff for the error. Check him out, pass the word.
Project Vote Smart on special interest groups
Eagle Forum
American Conservative Union
other conservative groups
gun issues
National Taxpayers Union
Oil Cops
GOOD links.
Thanks!
Junior says one thing to one group, another to yet another, but it is his voting record that tells the tale of his liberalism/socialism. The MSM including FNC are to lazy to do simple google research.
His family is notorious in TN. I think the voters will reject him.
What...do you really think Limbaugh can be fooled?
NRSC website assails ‘Fancy Ford’
By Peter Savodnik
Rep. Harold Ford (D-Tenn.) is taking flak for attending a Playboy Super Bowl party and spending thousands of campaign dollars on flowers and “lavish hotel stays.”
Amazing, he flip flops on abortion, he flip flops on whether or not he is a lawyer. I guess he was a lawyer before he wasn't one....
From the Memphis Commercial Appeal:
Junior still dancing around issue of abortion
of his campaign ads, Ford says sternly that he won't let former Chattanooga mayor Bob Corker, the Republican candidate, make him out to be something he's not.
So you might think Ford would be eager to erase any gray areas on an issue as divisive as abortion. You'd be wrong.
The Ford camp is more than comfortable with the ambiguity, and in fact, the congressman is trying to capitalize on the confusion. He tells both sides what he thinks they want to hear, hoping the right and the left never get together to compare notes.
Mike Fleming (local conservative talk host) had junior on his show yesterday, he blamed it all on his staff, said he didn't write the first letter his staff did and signed his name to it. When he learned of this mistake letter 2 weeks later when the media started contacting him, he sent in a second letter objecting to the parole.
He also stated he didn't personally know Charles Traughber.....duh if you believe this I've ocean front property in Arizona to sell you. Traughber is the husband of state Rep Lois DeBerry the number 2 person in the House, one of the highest ranking Dems in the dem party in Memphis, you can't know one with out knowing the spouse.
Ford's parole error ripped
GOP questions his leadership for Senate
By Lawrence Buser August 26, 2005
It didn't take long for political opponents of Congressman Harold Ford Jr. to pounce on the news that his office had sought consideration from the parole board on behalf of a notorious convicted killer.
The Web site for TeamGOP, a Republican grassroots organization based in Nashville, trumpeted Ford's miscue under the headline, "Harold Ford Jr. sends letter for hit-man."
"This is a disgraceful act for anyone, elected official or not," TeamGOP said. "This is the kind of leadership that Harold Ford wants to bring to the US Senate?"
Ford responded that Republicans were being insensitive to the victim's family.
In a letter to the parole board earlier this month, Ford asked the board to give consideration for the positive steps convicted killer Phillip Michael Britt has taken while behind bars for the past 28 years. Although his signature was on the Aug. 2 letter, Ford said this week he was unaware of the wording in the staff-written letter and said it does not accurately reflect his feelings about whether Britt should be paroled.
"I've read some of the right-wing attack blogs and I think it's insensitive (to the victim's family) for Republicans to make political capital out of this," Ford said Thursday. "I made a mistake, I've corrected it and I've apologized to the family. It's an unfortunate situation, but the reality is parole was denied."
Ford wrote a second letter on Aug. 19 informing the parole board he does not support Britt's request for parole.
He said he wished Britt had gotten the death penalty.
Britt is one of three men convicted for the rape and murder of 24-year-old Deborah Groseclose in 1977. The parole board denied Britt parole Wednesday for at least six years.
"I think he didn't have a clue about the crime Britt committed, which his staff didn't bother to research," Groseclose's sister Rebecca Easley said Thursday, adding that she appreciated Ford calling her this week to discuss the issue. "Hopefully, this is a very valuable lesson for him. I doubt that sort of thing will happen again out of his office."
Ford said his office sends out hundreds of letters a week, but that he has now established stronger safeguards to ensure that his correspondence accurately reflects his position, including form letters that might go to the parole board.
Rush was just pointing out a few of the Democrats who are having to adopt a more conservative stance on the war. He beleives the poll numbers have scared them towards the right.
Novak has other paragraphs on other subjects but this one dealt with JUNIOR!
Rep. Harold Ford, one of the brightest young Democratic lights in the House and a Senate candidate in Tennessee next year, stunned colleagues by endorsing the Supreme Court's unpopular Kelo decision. That ruling permitted a Connecticut city to seize homeowners' property and transfer it to private developers.
"We have a lot of properties in my city [Memphis] . . . that are crying out for development," Ford said on a Nashville radio talk show. The congressman asserted, "I've always been one to believe that individual rights is a big thing," but added, "there is some real value to this decision."
A footnote: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi also went against the popular tide by defending Kelo. Opposing congressional efforts to nullify the court's decision, she said it was "almost as if God has spoken."
http://www.billhobbs.com/
Ford Jr.'s Colleagues "Stunned" By His Approval of Kelo Decision Allowing Goverment to Take Your Property and Give It To Someone Else Columnist Robert Novak reports that U.S. Rep. Harold Ford's Jr.'s endorsement of the Supreme Court's decision in Kelo v. New London "stunned" his Congressional colleagues. Ford, D-Memphis, currently running for the U.S. Senate from Tennessee, praised Kelo, which gives government virtually unlimited power to take private property and transfer it to another owner such as a private real estate developer for any reason, as a "positive" decision. Four other candidates running for the U.S. Senate from Tennessee - former GOP congressmen Ed Bryant and Van Hilleary, current GOP state Rep. Beth Harwell and current Democratic state Sen. Rosalind Kurita, all condemned Kelo, while former Chattanoga mayor Bob Corker, a Republican who made his fortune as a real estate developer, has ignored repeated requests for a statement of his position on Kelo.
Ford, incidentally, also voted against legislation that would have increased protection for private property rights
Junior which is what he and his constituents call him has been groomed for congress, governorship and then the White House...he's a real smooth operator.
IOW he is anaother John F'n Kerry empty suit, hair mouse, politician brat.
lets see...
John Kerry
John Edwards
Al Gore
Bill Clinton is the unwanted love child the political elite never wanted in the first place
Mario Cuomo
Yes, but much, much smoother. FNC just did a feature on Junior's campaign, I saw him, his bus, but didn't catch what was said, I was cleaning off my remote control, I spilled water on it.
http://www.billhobbs.com/
Bob Tuke and the Tennessee Democratic Party have come up with a clever excuse for why they are keeping the tens of thousands of dollars given them by Bary Stokes, CEO of 1Point Solutions, the company caught up in a criminal investigation into missing retirement funds.
Mark Brown, a party spokesman, said the Democratic Party has to be "careful" because it has three current and one former employee who had their retirement benefits within the control of Stokes and 1Point. Brown said if the party returned the money now, a court of law could say that the Democratic Party was "trying to influence the case." The court of public opinion, meanwhile, sees the Democratic Party is holding on to money that may well have been looted from people's retirement funds. Tuke, the party chairman, says the money will be returned only if CEO Barry Stokes is convicted or found that he embezzled retirement benefits.
But of course if he only mismanaged the company but not criminally, the party will keep the money and the people who lost their retirement funds because they trusted Barry Stokes and 1Point Solutions won't get it back. Memo to Tuke: It doesn't matter to the little people if Stokes is criminally liable or not. They lost their retirement funds either way. And you're holding on to some of it. The right thing to do is to return it and let the bankruptcy court trustee sort things out.
The notion that a judge would view returning the money as trying to influence the case is laughable.
No word yet from the Bredesen campaign as to whether or not it will return donations it received from Stokes and the 1Point PAC. The campaign still lists Stokes as one of Tennessee's "top business leaders" endorsing Bredesen's re-election. The Bredesen campaign's treasurer, Stuart Brunson, once acted as 1Point's lobbyist. He, more than anyone, ought to speak publicly about the Stokes/1Point donations and whether or not the campaign intends to return them.
C'mon, Brunson. Your candidate is a multi-millionaire and way ahead in the polls. Surely the campaign can part with Stokes' donations.
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