An Ol’ Broad’s Ramblings
Crawling In The Slime
As Cohen passes landmark resolution, Tinker camp readies attack ad
Nikki Tinker likes to wear a baseball cap and athletic shoes to go with a skirt, giving her the look of a woman hard at work, and she would often show voters the tan line on her arms as evidence of it. She said she worked outside at the early-voting sites from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. each day.
“I’m on the ground out here with the people,” said Tinker, a 37-year-old corporate attorney on leave from Pinnacle Airlines. “This is where the rubber meets the road.”
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What Tinker did not mention was that, behind the scenes, her campaign was producing an attack ad with images of a Ku Klux Klan rally that Cohen’s campaign considers inflammatory and a defamation of character.
The ad in question was covered on the nightly news:
Now, I don’t know about you, but I am thinking that Tinker is slinking to some seriously low levels here in her bid to avenge her loss to Cohen the last time around.
“I’m surprised that Miss Tinker authorized the ad,” said Cohen. “She’s run a positive campaign up until now. This is about as low a political ad as I’ve ever seen.”
Since I don’t live in Cohen’s district, I won’t be voting for either Cohen or Tinker. There doesn’t seem to be any other serious candidates in the race, and who ever wins the primary will evidently, win the seat. A Democrat will still take the win. I do however find this acceptability of this sort of political ad more than disconcerting. It tells me just how far a candidate will go to defeat an opponent.
Have we sunk so far into the bowels of Hell that we just blow off such things as “normal”? I’d rather not.
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