Swift Boat Vets Will Go After Harold Ford Jr

[NashVegas]

http://www.nashvillepost.com/news/2006/10/17/independent_group_seeks_to_scuttle_ford_campaign

Unfortunately, it's a pay-for article, but here's what's made free:

Independent group sails full-steam against Ford campaign

By Ken Whitehouse

10-17-2006 1:43 PM — UPDATED 17 Oct. 2:24 p.m. with Ford campaign comments -- Group funded by 2004 'swift boat' donor attacks Ford for spending campaign cash on hotels, cigars, and fancy suits...

[Monkeyman]

1. Do me a favor sent this to

http://VETSFORMURTHA.ORG

[IndianaGreen]

2. I'll like to fire a couple of torpedoes at their rightwing swiftboat

They will drown like the rats they are!

[Name removed]

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[Tanuki]

4. Yep, and I just got this e-mail:

Dear Music Row Democrats,

Yesterday I sat in on this week’s conference call for the Harold Ford Senate campaign. Here is a summary of some key points:

Harold Ford has a 3-7 point lead in independent polls less than one month until the election.
The Republican Swift Boat 527s are preparing to pour money into Tennessee to smear Harold Ford.
The Ford campaign needs to raise $600,000 per week until the election to fight back.
The Music Row Democrats have grown this election year to include 2600 members. We want to harness your energy and the energy of the internet to help in this critical campaign to win back the Senate. If each of our members recruited 3 friends to donate $25.00 each (the price of a concert t-shirt), then we could raise:

2600 x 3 x $25.00 = $195,000.00

Please forward this email to your friends and call them personally to ask for their help (Or you can use the "Send this to a friend" button at the bottom of this message). All you need to do is raise a minimum of $25.00 each from three friends. And if you find the process rewarding don’t stop at three friends, but keep going. This is how we take our country back.

DONATE HERE
https://services.myngp.com/ngponlineservices/contribution.aspx?X=Cr/GSlExNmsZGu9o3vsXQkE9YQadxvVw

If you have ever asked, “What can I do?”
Here is something simple, practical and easy that you can do.

Thank you,
Bob Titley

PS: If you prefer to contribute by check, please make it payable to:

Harold Ford for Tennessee
C/O Music Row Democrats
900 Division Street
Nashville Tn. 37203


http://www.musicrowdemocrats.com/


(edited to add active link for donations)

[NashVegas]

5. More Info

http://nashvillecitypaper.com/index.cfm?section_id=9&screen=news&news_id=52777

Where Harold Ford Jr. stays, what suits he wears and what cigars he buys are being revealed to Tennesseans through a new advertisement a Washington conservative group is airing.

The Free Enterprise Fund, a 527 special interest group based in Washington D.C., started to air the television ad Tuesday bashing U.S. Rep. Ford (D-Memphis), the Democratic U.S. Senate nominee.
...

According to PoliticalMoneyLine.com, the Free Enterprise Fund has received $1 million from Robert Perry, a wealthy Houston homebuilder and a major GOP contributor.

Perry is the same donor who bankrolled one of the most famous independent expenditure campaigns — Swift Boat Veterans for Truth — which bashed Democratic Presidential nominee, Sen. John Kerry, for his record in relation to the Vietnam War. Perry reportedly gave the Swift Boat group $4.45 million.

[Clark2008]

6. Hell, all Ford has to do is counter with how much money

Corker made as mayor of Chattanooga using his influence as said mayor to broker land deals that made him tons of cash.

Who cares what kind of suit Harold Ford Jr. spends his money on: I care that Corker used his influence to make himself more money.

Corker's the millionaire here - not Ford.