Questions for Stephanie Tubbs Jones on the March 4 Primary

Email, call, and ask Stephanie Tubbs Jones important questions about Ohio's primary March 4.

One of Hillary Clinton's biggest endorsers in Ohio is Congresswoman Stephanie Tubbs Jones, of NEO's 11th CD, Cleveland's east side and near-eastern suburbs.  As a leader in the black community in Ohio Democratic Party politics, and an endorser of Hillary Clinton, i think it is fair to ask Stephanie some important questions about the kind of campaign Hillary Clinton is running.  

Specifically, many other major endorsers of Hillary Clinton have made allegedly racially coded statements designed to play racial politics against Barack Obama.  It is important, before Ohio votes on March 4, to know where Stephanie Tubbs Jones stands on conducting this kind of campaign.  For example -

• Does Stephanie Tubbs Jones agree with former Clinton NH chair Bill Shaheen when he "told reporters of his concern that if Obama, who has admitted using illegal drugs as a teenager, were to win the nomination, some voters might wonder if he also may have been a dope peddler."

• Does Stephanie Tubbs Jones agree with former president Bill Clinton who has said that Barack Obama's candidacy is a "fairy tale", and a "roll of the dice"?  Does Stephanie agree with Bill Clinton when he compared Obama's campaign in South Carolina in 2008 to Jesse Jackson's campaign in 1988?

• Does Stephanie Tubbs Jones agree with Clinton Strategist Mark Penn when he said even after Shaheen's departure, "The issue related to cocaine use is not something that the campaign was in any way raising."

• Does Stephanie Tubbs Jones agree with Clinton endorser Robert Johnson, who said, ""Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood - and I won't say what he was doing, but he said it in the book."

• Does Stephanie Tubbs Jones agree with Clinton endorser Bob Kerrey's apology for the following - "When he was asked about Mr. Obama’s qualifications, Mr. Kerrey said, “It’s probably not something that appeals to him, but I like the fact that his name is Barack Hussein Obama,” adding that his election would send a unique message around the world."

• Does Stephanie Tubbs Jones recognize any of this language as the kind of racially divisive campaign tactics that she has had to battle throughout her political career?  Does she approve of them?  Or are these tactics something else?

These are fair questions to ask of Hillary Clinton's most prominent African-American endorser in Ohio, at this stage, well before Ohio voters have to make their decision in the pivotal primary March 4.  I encourage everyone at BSB to send an email to Congresswoman Jones to make sure she will not tolerate this kind of campaigning in Ohio.

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