Tinker Acolyte Says Incendiary Ad Has Nothing To With Race

By Kleinheider Posted on August 5, 2008 at 7:59 am

Well, of course, not. Silly us.

Former Shelby County Commissioner Walter Bailey said Monday that the Nikki Tinker ad featuring pictures of a Ku Klux Klan rally and denunciations of incumbent Congressman Steve Cohen’s vote not to remove the statue and remains of Nathan Bedford Forrest from a Memphis park “has nothing to do with race.”

Asked if injecting the incendiary television images into Thursday’s 9th Congressional District Democratic Primary contest would be seen as racially divisive, Bailey said: “That may be an ancillary side of it, but that’s not the main focus, and it’s not the intended focus.”

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Their Sheets Are Used For An Entirely Different Purpose

By Kleinheider Posted on August 4, 2008 at 2:07 pm

The Hill reports on Nikki Tinker’s new negative ad attempting to imply that Rep. Steve Cohen harbors some neo-confederate sympathies:

“It’s just a desperation effort that’s hard to fathom — that somebody would suggest that, particularly a Jewish person, was in any way involved with the Ku Klux Klan,” Cohen told The Hill. “The Klan didn’t exactly have Yom Kippur and Rosh Hashana services and invite us over for them.”

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