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

By Kleinheider Posted on August 6, 2008 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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