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For Immediate Release

27 February 2008

 

Contact:  Wade Munday

615.477.2009 

 

TENNESSEE DEMOCRATIC PARTY STATEMENT REGARDING REPUBLICAN COMMENTS CONCERNING SEN. BARACK OBAMA

 

Nashville-  The Tennessee Democratic Party released the following statement regarding the news that Tennessee Republican Party chairwoman Robin Smith has refused to disavow earlier comments made by the Republican Party regarding Senator Barack Obama and will continue to use Senator Obama's full name as disparaging political innuendo:

 

"The tone and the accuracy of this release unfortunately is what we have come to expect from the Tennessee Republican Party in recent times, and this release is the worst of the bunch," said Tennessee Democratic Party chairman Gray Sasser. "It amplifies misinformation, discredited tall tales, and internet innuendo to appeal to the worst in people.

 

"This kind of fear mongering has no place in the public discourse.  Senator John McCain has forcefully come out and rejected these types of gutter politics. Now, it is time that Republican leaders in Tennessee like Lieutenant Governor Ron Ramsey and U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander join their Republican nominee and disapprove of these tactics."

 

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See "Anti-Semites for Obama," TNGOP website 25 Feb. 2008. http://www.tngop.org/wordpress/?p=113.