The Republican Party’s putative 2008 nominee St. John McCain has hired Terry Nelson as his campaign manager.
In the Tennessee senate campaign this year, Nelson produced the racist television commercial for Sen.-Elect Bob Corker that depicted a blonde actress who says she met Corker’s opponent, former Rep. Harold Ford, who is black, at a “Playboy party.” Toward the end of the ad, she whispers seductively, “Harold, call me.”
Before the ad ran in Tennessee, Ford was slightly ahead or even with Corker in the polls. After the ad was up for a week or two, Ford’s polling sank permanently to double digits behind Corker, a real estate developer who had served as mayor of Chattanooga.
Nelson and his company were fired by Wal-mart’s advertising department after the ad ran because it was considered to be racist.
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The Republican Party’s putative 2008 nominee St. John McCain has hired Terry Nelson as his campaign manager. In the Tennessee senate campaign this year, Nelson produced the racist television commercial for Sen.-Elect Bob Corker that depicted a blonde…
St. McCain Hires Creator of Racist Ad to Be Campaign Manager
The GOP’s putative 2008 nominee St. John McCain’s new campaign manager, Terry Nelson, was the producer of the racist TV spot for TN senate candidate Bob Corker that depicted a blonde actress saying she’d met Corker’s opponent, former Rep. Harold …