Ford and Green battle in Senate District 42By Robert Behre (Contact)
The Post and Courier
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Charleston lawyer Dwayne Green decided to run against state Sen. Robert Ford after he heard Ford say that if U.S. Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois were to win the Democratic presidential nomination, then that would doom party’s candidates in the fall. Ford apologized soon afterward, but the comment was out there. Ford, who needs to defeat Green in the June 10 Democratic primary to get re-elected to a fifth term, was not impressed with his opponent’s reasoning. “That’s one of the most ridiculous things I’ve heard in my life, somebody running because of a comment I made about another candidate,” he said, adding that Green mentions how he graduated from Princeton University. “If that’s the kind of craziness they teach at Princeton, then they need to shut down that institution.” That comment is not the only way Obama’s historic candidacy is affecting the Senate District 42 race —most prominent primary contest in the Lowcountry’s black community. Green, who supported Obama earlier this year, said he admires Obama’s focus on the positive, his grass roots success and his desire to bring people together. He noted that while Ford backed Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama ended up winning 78 percent of the vote within the district’s precincts. “It’s not my intention at all to criticize Robert Ford and bring up negatives about him,” Green said. “I respect what he’s done in the past, but I want to give voters a difference choice for the future.” For his part, Ford declined to talk about Green, saying, “I just run for the seat.” Read more in Monday's Post and Courier. |
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Posted by noradellova on May 11, 2008 at 5:05 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I am elated that a viable candidate has surfaced to oppose Robert Ford. If he believed even one-third of the things which he has espoused over the years, how could he have ever supported Sen. Clinton over Sen. Obama?
I will stop short of playing the race card, but if he truly believes what he has been saying that he believes, then he must have been bought.It is no secret, that the Clinton's are not bashful about distributing the street money, and it is clear that Ford must have received some of it.
Anyway, Ford is not from Charleston, he is not even from South Carolina. On the other hand I can trace the Green lineage back to slavery in the lowcountry. Ford, you can now go quietly into the night. We have had enought of you. I hope the money you took from the Clinton's will be enough to full your tank. Go home.