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The Cleaner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-07-06 09:06 AM
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Dems Accuse Bob Corker (Senatorial Candidate) of Unanswered 911 Calls
Edited on Thu Sep-07-06 09:17 AM by The Cleaner
Oh I see, they can dish it out but they can't take it!
:rofl:

Bob Corker is former mayor of Chattanooga and is currently a Senatorial candidate.


Summary
Republicans cry foul over a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee TV ad attacking Republican Senate candidate Bob Corker, the former mayor of Chattanooga. It said, "Thanks to Bob Corker's failures as Mayor, more than thirty-one-thousand 911 calls went unanswered."
We find that the 31,000 number may be a bit high, but the rate of unanswered calls did get worse while Corker was mayor, reaching nearly 15 per cent in his last full year in office. Tens of thousands of emergency calls did go unanswered.

Analysis
The DSCC released the ad Sep 1, broadcasting it on Tennessee television stations and on a DSCC-run website called thetruthaboutbobcorker.com. It opens with a menacing house alarm. An announcer says later that “thanks to Bob Corker's failures as Mayor, more than thirty-one thousand  911 calls went unanswered. . . .And now Bob Corker wants to be in the Senate. In a time when America 's security has never mattered more. ”


Source: http://www.factcheck.org/article425.html
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