Ads swap claims on Ford votes on security
2006-09-14
Source: Memphis Commercial Appeal
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rss feedSenate candidates Bob Corker and Harold Ford Jr. are airing competing TV ads statewide over Ford's record on national security issues, with Corker charging that Ford weakened U.S. security and Ford rejecting the claim.
Republican Corker launched an ad against Ford last Friday. Ford began airing his defense Wednesday, charging that "Mr. Corker is doing wrong ... and I won't let them make me someone I'm not."
In his ad, Corker charges that Ford, Memphis' Democratic congressman, voted against re-authorizing the USA Patriot Act, voted to cut defense spending and "even voted to let liberal judges release felons from jail because of overcrowding."
In his response ad -- set in his Memphis church -- Ford says he voted for the Patriot Act, for $5 trillion in defense spending and against amnesty for illegal immigrants.
The new wave of ads comes as new polls indicate the Tennessee Senate race is now neck-and-neck. A SurveyUSA poll conducted Sept. 9-11 for WBIR-TV in Knoxville released Tuesday indicated Ford is ahead 48 to 45 percent. A Sept. 5 poll by Rasmussen Reports indicated Corker with a one-point lead, 45 to 44 percent.
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