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October 02, 2007
Ken Jordan or Bob Corker: Democrats will Decide
"Call me Harold" is a famous political commercial aired during the Bob Corker/Harold Ford Jr. campaign. The Republican National Committee attempted to paint Harold Ford Jr. as liberal, as a person who had possesses no values, as a bachelor who is a Playboy party attending bachelor. The ad by critics was called racial because of a white woman, who appeared to be naked, saying "call me Harold" after she claimed she met Harold Ford Jr. at Playboy party.
In the State of Tennessee, a local candidate for state Senate race admits to being a supporter of Mr. Corker, Ken Jordan a black Democrat, admits that he campaigned for, worked for, and appeared in television commercials for Bob Corker. The fact that his candidate, Ken Jordan, worked for the Corker campaign as a black resident of Chattanooga Tennessee brings into question his democratic credentials. Democrats will have to decide whether a man who actively worked for Bob Corker, a Republican, who was associated with a call Me Harold ad is worthy to be elected as the Democratic nominee. Bob Corker did call for the RNC to pull the commercial, and sometime after the request the RNC pull the commerical--but not before it was seen all over the state, and across the nation.
In a Democratic Primary, can a black candidate who worked against a black runnng for the United State Senate (a Democrat by the way) gain his "party's" nomination?
Paul Smith, a past chair, and current member of the Executive Board of the Democratic Party is endorsing and working for Mr. Jordan and believes Jordan is a Democrat representing the values of the voters in the Tennessee State Senate District 10 race. This Thursday the voters will decide the issue.
| By sjames | 09:49 AM
Comments
Did Ken Jordan come onto your show last week? If so, did you question him about his support for Corker?
Posted by: davidm. at October 2, 2007 10:45 AM
Davidm
He did not show up, I did not get to question him at all. He did not show up for Tennessee Insider either, nor has he responded to requests from Jeff Styles to be on air. To be fair, however, he has shown up for candidate forums and was interviewed by Tennessee Ticket.
Stuart
Posted by: Stuart James at October 3, 2007 10:16 AM