At a recent event in Jackson, Ford said, “I ain’t gonna be as nice on Tuesday in Chattanooga … You know, my family’s been involved in politics a long, long time and sometimes my dad, and my uncle, and all of them would take the gloves off but I may just have to take the gloves off.” (Video Recording from event in Jackson, TN on October 8, 2006 at the Carl Perkins Civic Center—audio available from the campaign upon request).

The fact that Congressman Ford intends to emulate the campaign style of his father and uncle, as he said on Sunday, is a new development in this contest.

If Ford is already planning to follow in the Ford family footsteps during the campaign, we wonder … will he do the same if elected to the U.S. Senate?