Waiting For Junior: Will Harold Ford Condemn The Tinker Toy Tactics In His Former Stomping Grounds?

By Kleinheider Posted on August 6, 2008 at 11:00 pm

Aunt B. asks and answers her own questions on where Nikki Tinker’s money to create of those racially and religiously inflammatory ads comes from — but only partially. Yes, Tinker gets her money from Armenians. Republicans? I’m not so sure.

Regardless, one place we know Nikki Tinker did get her money from was Emily Threlkeld Ford, wife of Harold Ford, Jr. the former Congressman from the very district in question here.

In 2006, the year Cohen originally won his seat, Ford the U.S. Senate candidate was noticeably cold towards the candidate Cohen — and for good reason. His brother Jake, supported by Harold, Sr., was an independent candidate for the seat.

However, when his brother again filed to run against Cohen this year, again as an independent, declaring that the Ninth District should have a black Congressman, Harold Ford, Jr. condemned him in the harshest possible terms.

“It’s beyond concern. I want to make clear my brothers’ comments are not mine. I reject them. … I don’t believe any candidate’s fitness for office should be measured or determined by race or gender.”

Where is Harold Ford, Jr. now? This is not just one negative ad, it is a pattern. Nikki Tinker is attempting to divide Harold Ford’s former district along racial and religious lines. Where is the reprimand, the censure?

The blowback on Tinker has been significant. The rebukes are starting to roll in.

Post Politics has made its requests for comment formally to the office of Harold Ford and those requests have gone unanswered. I hate to get all Scenester on the issue but, in this case, I have to say, “Harold, call me.”

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Tags: Emily Threlkeld Ford, FUBU, Harold Ford, Jake Ford, Junior, KKK, Klan, Nathan Bedford Forrest, negative ads, Nikki Tinker, Steve Cohen, That's racist  

Nikki Tinker, After Toe-Tapping Around Race, Moves On To Religion

By Kleinheider Posted on at 8:03 am

Insurgent Ninth District Democratic Congressional challenger Nikki Tinker, not content to sit back and reap the rewards from a racially divisive ad linking Rep. Steve Cohen to Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, is now attacking Cohen on another front: religion.

In the ad, a child’s voice is heard praying while the narrator, clearly meant to be a black woman but not Tinker, wonders who “the real Steve Cohen is anyway” while questioning one of Cohen votes on school prayer while in the state Senate.

While he’s is OUR churches clapping his hands and tapping his feet, he was the only Senator who thought OUR kids shouldn’t be allowed to pray in school.

With all the talk recently in the presidential race about coded language and messages in political pitches, Tinker’s new ad will surely lead some to see an attempt to paint the Jewish Cohen as an anti-Christian interloper in his majority black and majority Christian district.

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Tags: antisemitism, Christian, FUBU, jewish interloper, Nikki Tinker, school prayer, Steve Cohen