Ford To Corker: Lets Debate!

[pf99]

Dear Mr. Corker,

When you continue to mislead voters in the general election, as you did in the primary, I will take the opportunity to point it out to the voters.

You say that you are the outsider in the Senate campaign against me, but the facts and the record suggest nothing could be further from the truth. You are worth $200 million and have given thousands of dollars to political candidates and raised hundreds of thousands more over the last 20 years. You have been running for the U.S. Senate since 1993 when you ran and lost to Bill Frist. You were Governor Don Sundquist's Finance Commissioner and you were Mayor of Chattanooga. Please don't insult the voters with such false and misleading information by continuing to say that you are an outsider.

The only outsider in this Senate campaign is the Tennessee voter. They are outside looking in on a failed Republican Party in Washington, D.C. - the group you want to join -- that has produced bigger government, a failed immigration and border policy, record gas prices, the highest debt in the nation's history, higher taxes on the middle and a stay-the-course approach in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Middle class Tennesseans can't stand this failed leadership any longer. They want change, not more of the same.

I am running for the Senate so their voices will be heard and their needs addressed. They want a new generation of leadership that will rise above partisanship, reach beyond failed ideology and put them first. Above all, they want a government that will work for them - not the other way around. That's why we owe the voters a real and honest debate about issues that matter most to them.

We are 70 days away from early voting in the general election and I'm again calling upon you to accept seven televised debates between now and the November 7th election. I have proposed seven debates in Memphis, Nashville, Chattanooga, Knoxville, Tri-Cites, Jackson and at Oak Ridge - and as many radio debates as we can possibly do.

Voters want and deserve these debates. The deserve to know how we would lower taxes on the middle class, what we would do to improve our national security interests in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and North Korea, how we would lower health care costs on families and small business and how we would make America more economically competitive.

Neither of us should spend the campaign hiding behind ads, polls, attacks or lies. We should go before the voters, take all their questions and answer them to the best of our ability.

I smell chicken and his name is Bob Corker

[BayCityProgressive]

1. Go Ford!

way to slam it to him!

[pf99]

2. My source for the above post

http://haroldfordjr2006.blogspot.com/2006/08/ford-to-corker-lets-debate.html

[CraigHinTenn]

3. No way Corker will debate Ford 7 times....

His strategy will be the 30 second sound bites of fear, plus they will drag Ford's family into the election. It's going to get ugly.

[tnlefty]

4. Ford renews call for debates (headline 8/26 Chatt. Free Press)

"Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Harold Ford Jr. on Friday again called on Republican opponent Bob Corker to participate in a series of debates before the Nov. 7 elections.

Representative Ford, a congressman from Memphis, wrote in a letter that he already has accepted multiple debate requests.

Corker campaign spokeswoman Alexia Poe said the campaign is looking at debate requests.

"We hope to make our decision shortly," she said."

Apparently Ford has requested a series of 7 televised debates. I wonder if Corker will do as my chickenshit representative does and refuse to debate so he doesn't run the risk of making himself look bad before an audience of voters.