What Do You Want, A Medal?

By Kleinheider Posted on August 10, 2008 at 11:13 pm

EMILY’s List may have condemned the racially and religiously inflammatory advertising of Nikki Tinker in the final days of the campaign but Congressman Steve Cohen will not forgive and does not forget where his opponent got the money to attack him:

“I said it’s going to get dirty, there’s going to be some things said at the end that are going to be unbelievable,” Cohen said. EMILY’s List condemned one of the advertisements in the campaign’s final days, a move Cohen said wasn’t enough. “Their money is what paid for these ads. They raised [Tinker's] money.”

The group’s president, Ellen Malcolm, reached out after the primary, Cohen said. Malcolm “called me and she was trying to act like she’d done me some great favor by renouncing that [advertisement], and I said, ‘You know, the election was over. Your money that you got from your members who didn’t know what this race was about, didn’t know what my record was, didn’t know about this lady, you paid for those ads.’”

“The members of EMILY’s List are owed an apology from Ellen Malcolm for not having a better vetting process,” Cohen added.

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The Cardinal Sin: Tinker Removes Her Flirtation With Antisemitism

By Kleinheider Posted on August 7, 2008 at 9:01 am

While putting a progressive Congressman’s beside an image of Klansman with a burning cross would appear to be all in good fun, suggesting that same Congressman, a Jew, is an interloper in the Black community is not.

As of this posting, Democratic insurgent Congressional candidate Nikki Tinker’s infamous Nathan Bedford Forrest ad remains featured on her YouTube channel. An ad suggesting that Congressman Steve Cohen was preventing black children from practicing their faith, however, has been removed.

Keith Olbermann’s declaration of Tinker as “The Worst Person In The World” for her tactics probably didn’t help, but it was likely a rebuke from Emily’s List, her financial benefactor in both this and her 2006 race, that led to the video’s removal.

Post Politics has been unable to reach the Tinker campaign for comment at the time of posting.

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