Corker ad: 'Harold Ford Jr. voted For abortion pills for school children'

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This is the kind of shit Tennesseans have been drowned in. Corker just put another Million.two of his own money into his disgusting campaign.

Harold can't afford a million two since he's been a congressman for TEN YEARS.

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1. Which is why we need FAIR media back and only public funding in campaigns.

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2. Is this Corker's interpretation of maybe Ford voting against parental

notification to protect the safety of women under the age of 18 years and to save them the humiliation of asking a judge for permission to attain an abortion? If so, that's a stretch.

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The second ad, which started Monday, shows two tuxedo-clad young men side by side and claims Ford voted to recognize gay marriage, and a prep school girl in a sweater and plaid skirt with a voiceover saying he "wants to give the abortion pill to our schoolchildren."

Ford's campaign lawyers said in a letter to station managers that the two charges are "blatantly false and libelous" and demanded they be taken off the air. Campaign spokesman Michael Powell said stations have asked the RNC to substantiate the claims and if it won't or can't, will remove them.

The ad cites a Sept. 19, 2000, vote on a bill that RNC spokesman Danny Diaz said would have prohibited elementary and high schools from distributing "emergency post-coital contraception to minors."

Ford's campaign said the so-called "morning-after pill" hadn't even been approved in the U.S. by then.

http://www.commercialappeal.com/mca/politics/article/0,1426,MCA_1496_5091277,00.html