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October 07, 2007
2008 must be over already?
Cuz we're talking about the 2010 race for Governor of Tennessee. The TFP's DC reporter, Herman Wang, puts to rest any further speculation on whether U.S. Rep. Lincoln Davis will seek his party's nomination to run for the state's top elected post.
As the article points out, this move puts Davis on a direct collision course with his friend and former delegation member, Harold Ford, Jr. Meanwhile, recently departed Nashville mayor Bill Purcell is thinking about following in his predecessor's footsteps.
Both major parties' primaries should be interesting, as former U.S Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and our own no-longer-self-term-limited Congressman Zach Wamp are said to be among those thinking about running on the Republican side.
But let's get through the 2008 (and, in Chattanooga, 2009) election cycles first, shall we?
P.S. - One correction for Herman and the paper: the article says that Lincoln Davis faced no opposition in his 2006 reelection bid. Perhaps they left out a word, such as "serious" or "viable"; but TennesseeTicket's archives say that Kenneth Martin beat out fellow GOP contenders Alan Pedigo and Don Strong to face Davis; and that two Democrats, Norma Cartwright and Harvey Howard, also ran against Davis in the primary that year.
P.P.S - Gotta run: President Hillary's calling. ;-)
Gubernatorial Elections | By joe lance | 10:20 AM