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Posted at 5:58pm on May 13, 2008 Alert to MS Dems! Free Hamburgers if you vote for Childers

By Soren Dayton

Earlier today, Moe covered outright lies by the DCCC in their attend to defeat Greg Davis in today's special election in MS-1.

They have another problem. Dems are passing out free hamburgers:

If you hurry, you might get one. I would also ask if Republicans can get them too. If not, they are probably committing a crime.

H/T ElectionJournal.org

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Posted at 10:45am on May 13, 2008 Travis Childers campaign in Mississippi gets its own post-Civil War history wrong.

And here I was thinking that I had a stopping place handy in MS-01.

By Moe Lane

Note by Jeff: A photo of the ad is also below the fold. Not only does the Childers (D) campaign appear to be conflating Greg Davis and Horn Lake Mayor Nat Baker -- as well as Jeff Davis and N.B. Forrest (according to the article below, which the DCCC is citing as their proof for the ad, Davis was only willing to display the J.D. statue, whereas Baker wanted both), but they didn't have the guts to go public with this in any form other than a pushcard being distributed on the streets of MS-01 one day before today's special election.

Before we go any further; I wouldn't particularly want a statue of Jeff Davis in my hometown. Which is not the same as acquiescing to having one, let alone wanting one of Nathan Bedford Forrest. There's really no excuse for the Childers campaign to get this so drastically wrong, by the way: after all, Davis and Forrest were both Democrats until the day that they died.

Southaven Mayor Greg Davis said Thursday he would be willing to display the Jefferson Davis statue, which is in Downtown Memphis, near City Hall at the end of Northwest Drive.

Horn Lake Mayor Nat Baker also said he would take the statues of Davis and of Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest “in a heartbeat, even if we’d have to find some privately owned land to put them on.”

Davis said he isn’t “pushing” for the statue of [Jefferson] Davis, despite some news reports saying otherwise.

“All I said was we’d be willing to give the statue a home,” Davis said. “That’s as far as my conversation with Gary Roper went.”

Davis said he hasn’t talked with any public official in Memphis about acquiring the statue.

He also said he doesn’t know what the exact process of obtaining the statue would be.

“I don’t even know if Memphis is even going to move it or not,” Davis said. “We were asked if we could give it a home and we said ‘yes.’ We’re not going to pay for it.

[Photos of the attack ad here and here.]

If I was a betting man, I'd bet that this ad originated out of state. Far out of state. You see, people from Mississippi tend to know something about the American Civil War.

Moe Lane

PS: Ticked by this? Greg Davis (MS-01) would no doubt like to hear from you about it.

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Posted at 9:52am on May 13, 2008 Today's the day for Greg Davis (MS-01)...

...and you have to wonder whether Travis Childers would prefer to lose.

By Moe Lane

Well, it's like this: Greg Davis (MS-01) and Childers are going to do this all again in November anyway. So if Childers loses, he can give it another shot, and hope that he can run without having to be linked too closely with Barack Obama (whom he's never met, remember?):

Tough to do if the Democrats nominate the man, but not outside the realm of possibility. But if Childers wins... he then becomes a super-delegate, which means that he has to do one of three things:

1). Support Obama. Greg Davis (MS-01) will have fun with those ads. So will I, for that matter.

2). Support Clinton. Thus outraging all those progressives that petulantly gave him money because they were told that you can't expect to run real Democrats in Mississippi.

3). Stall for as long as he can. Thus pleasing nobody, but giving him valuable early experience in how to be a properly spineless Democratic Party politician.

So, no real upside there.

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