Daily Dose for October 26, 2006

Daily Dose

Senate Dose -- Here's your daily dose of the Senate race:

• Both candidates came down hard against a New Jersey Supreme Court decision that lawmakers must offer homosexuals either marriage or something like it, such as civil unions. Ford: "I do not support the decision today reached by the New Jersey Supreme Court regarding gay marriage. I oppose gay marriage, and have voted twice in Congress to amend the United States Constitution to prohibit same-sex marriage...This November there's a referendum on the Tennessee ballot to ban same-sex marriage - I am voting for it." Corker: "Today’s decision by the New Jersey Supreme Court is yet one more example of activist, liberal judges creating bad law from the bench. I voted on the first day of early voting to prohibit same sex marriage because it protects not just the sanctity of marriage between a man and women, but upholds the views and values of the vast majority of Tennesseans." The position may do more to hurt Ford than Corker. Some in Ford's base are already criticizing the remarks.
• The RNC took the controversal "Who Hasn't?" ad which features what has been described as a scantily clad blonde asking Harold Ford, Jr. to call her, out of its ad buy rotation, according to the Times Free Press. At least one TV station in Chattanooga is not going to run the replacement ad the RNC produced, however, opting to continue airing the blonde ad. More here and here and here
• Ford's team criticized a Corker fundraising letter which calls on donors to give money so that Corker does not have to inject his own fortune into the campaign. Under federal campaign finance rules, if Corker were to loan his campaign $665,000, Ford could begin raising $6,300 per individual contribution, rather than the $2,100 limit now in place. More here and here.
• Harold Ford, Sr. very well may cause enough animosity to ruin his son Harold Ford, Jr's campaign for Senate - by promoting his other son, who is running as an Independent against Dem nominee Steve Cohen to replace his brother in Congress. The Commercial Appeal looks at Ford, Sr's role in both his sons' campaigns.

Charles Love Gets Sentencing Delay -- Former Hamilton Co. school board member and lobbyist Charles Love got another delay in his sentencing for his role in the FBI's government corruption scheme known as Tennessee Waltz. The sentencing on Love's bribery guilty plea earlier was moved back to Nov. 8. and now it is moved to August of next year.

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