February 26, 2008

Tuke & Tinker

Here's a picture of former Tennessee Democrat Party chairman Bob Tuke posing with the cowboy hat-wearing Nikki Tinker at the 2004 Democrat National Convention. Tinker currently is running for the 9th District congressional seat in Tennessee, against incumbent Democrat Steve Cohen. Tinker's primary rationale for her candidacy seems to be that the district is majority-African American and Cohen isn't. Recently, Tinker declined to strongly condemn an anti-Semitic flier circulated in the 9th district attacking Cohen for being Jewish.

When I asked Tuke, off air, Feb 15 during a taping of Bob Mueller's WKRN show Inside Politics about Tinker and the flier, he said he was unaware of the incident.

Tuke is planning to run for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Lamar Alexander.