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No, Dang Blam It, The State Representative Is A….

Posted on September 28, 2008 at 1:56 pm

In an article describing a controversy over a misleading “issues sheet” in the race between Rep. Nathan Vaughn and Tony Shipley, Republican House Leader Jason Mumpower puts his lips to the dog whistle:

House Republican Leader Jason Mumpower said the tactic is proving effective in showing voters that Vaughn and Yokley “vote like big-city liberals.”

“They are better suited to be representing inner-city Memphis than the rural hills of East Tennessee,” said Mumpower.

Rep. Nathan Vaughn is, of course, one of the few African-American legislators representing East Tennessee. His district is majority white and Republican.

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4 Responses to “No, Dang Blam It, The State Representative Is A….”

  1. Joe writes
    September 28th, 2008 9:24 pm

    near?

  2. The rep. writes
    September 29th, 2008 8:25 am

    I think you are fishing for the race card a little hard on a lot of stories lately. Most of the liberal Democrats come from down town Memphis or the Memphis area. They are not all black. Cohen, Kernell, Morraro and others are white, liberal and from Memphis in case you didn’t notice. Liberalism is not race based but they may be concentrated in some urban area more then others.

    Race and sex are not the only issues needing to be reported on in state elections.

  3. Joe writes
    September 29th, 2008 10:20 am

    Rep, “inner-city” is commonly used to refer to poorer minority urban communities, not the wealthy neighborhoods that Cohen and Marrerro came from, even though they’re geographically in the center of Memphis.

    That said, I doubt that Mumpower meant anything offensive by what he said. Pols from more rural areas or smaller cities generally look down upon those libruls in the big cities. No biggie.

  4. Paulie Walnuts writes
    September 29th, 2008 10:31 am

    Rep,

    Come on now- you can at least spell your fellow Reps. names correctly. It’s Marrero- not Morarro.

    Perhaps, you shouldn’t be the one talking about about liberals or conservatives until you can get the basics down.

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