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His racially charged rhetoric is tiresome, particularly during a week dedicated to MLK's memory - Maybe it would have been asking too much to expect Jake and Isaac Ford to hold their peace, at least for a couple of days. Jake Ford, who filed qualifying paperwork Thursday to run for the Ninth Congressional District seat as an independent, wasted no time in taking his campaign on a detour down the low road. Jake Ford suggested that incumbent U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen is unable to represent the district because Cohen is white and the majority of the district's residents are black....

The following report is from an political insider: If the truth be known, HF Sr would have succeeded in promoting Jake's candidacy, if some Democrats had not alerted Clinton’s office about what the President was getting ready to step into when he came to support Jr. In fact, the Fords were going to have Jake on the dais with Clinton and Jr, Cohen was just given seats in the audience. Clinton would have appeared to lend his support to the Independent candidate, Jake, who is running a racist, anti-Semitic campaign against the elected Democratic candidate for the 9th District, Steve...

A few jabs got mixed into the pro-Memphis talk Saturday night at the final live debate between the three candidates for the 9th Congressional district seat. Democrat Steve Cohen and independent Jake Ford traded the biting remarks as they shared the stage with Republican Mark White at LeMoyne-Owen College to address issues such as civil unions, international policy, the media, party loyalty and candidate qualifications. Cohen defended a 2004 vote in the state legislature against a bill to ban civil unions, although he opposes same-sex marriage. While believing in the "sanctity of marriage," Ford said people who enter into civil...