WASHINGTON -- Tennessee 8th Congressional District candidate Ronald Kirkland is out with his first television ad making a distinction between his Tennessee support and the support an unnamed opponent is receiving from Washington.
Kirkland is seeking the Aug. 5 nomination against Stephen Fincher, a Crockett County farmer, gospel singer and darling of the National Republican Congressional Committee, and Shelby County Commissioner and medical doctor George Flinn.
An earlier ad advocating Kirkland's campaign was paid for by his brother, Robert Kirkland, who has set up a Federal Election Commission committee to make independent expenditure on his behalf. Because election law prohibits a campaign committee from coordinating independent expenditures, the brothers have agreed not to speak to each other until the election is over.
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