Mark Brown Defends The Message

By Kleinheider Posted on November 20, 2008 at 11:01 am

Senate Democratic Caucus Political Director Mark Brown looks back at the strategies of campaign 2008 with Jackson Baker:

Brown also takes exception to my having noted that official Democratic Party statements attempted misleadingly to saddle write-in candidate Rosalind Kurita, a Democrat who had significant Republican help, with support for a state income tax solely because she was financially backed by former Republican governor Don Sundquist. (For the record, Kurita was resolutely opposed to Sundquist’s income tax proposals as a senator.)

Brown’s response to that is something of a nolo contendere. After acknowledging that “we hit Kurita on Sundquist because Sundquist gave her campaign contributions,” he amplifies on that later by claiming that Republicans often have made unfairly sweeping allegations concerning Democratic support for an income tax (a point well taken), so that “[w]e pushed back by pointing out that Republicans were taking campaign contributions from Don Sundquist, the father of the state income tax; however, other than press releases and a few automated calls, this was never a major piece of our messaging.”

I’ll let that statement speak for itself.

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Tags: Don Sundquist, Income tax, Jackson Baker, Mark Brown, Rosalind Kurita  

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