Ford: Rural West Tenn. will win Senate for him
2006-10-09
Source: Jackson Sun
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rss feedDemocratic U.S. Senate candidate Harold Ford Jr. told a crowd of supporters during a rally Sunday in Jackson that it's rural farmers like the ones in West Tennessee who can help America dig itself out of a ditch of dependency on the Middle East.
"Wouldn't it be great," the congressman asked, if "the future generation of oil tycoons could be regular soybean farmers in Tennessee?"
Ford also told the more than 400 cheering supporters gathered at the Carl Perkins Civic Center that they were going to help him plow ahead at the polls.
"The race is going to be won right here," he said. "Rural West Tennessee is going to put us over."
Ford told the supporters not to get dismayed by the negative ads they may continue to see and hear from his opponent. Instead, he challenged them to use their energy to write down a list of 10 more people to encourage to vote for every negative ad they see.
"Don't let him drag us into the gutter," Ford said of his Republican opponent, Bob Corker. "There's going to be a lot of temptation. ... We've got to hold onto goodness."
"We learned just last night that the Chattanooga Fire Department endorsed us," Ford said. Corker is a former mayor of Chattanooga.
Some of Ford's supporters were still heated Sunday about Saturday's televised debate, where Corker called Ford the product of a family of politicians and "machine-type politics."
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