Searching For An Heir To Bredesen

By Kleinheider Posted on May 5, 2008 at 7:07 am

The City Paper’s Clint Brewer, in a piece on possible Democratic Gubernatorial candidates, declares, by omission, Rep. Lincoln Davis “politically inconsequential”:

Former governor Ned McWherter created the cardinal rule of politics in Tennessee when he said anyone serious about running for statewide office needed to start two years out from the Election Day in question. McWherter laid down that maxim over two decades ago, and it is still good advice. Thus far, leading Tennessee Democrats appear to be ready to sit out 2010 if McWherter’s law still holds true.

The real problem for Tennessee Democrats is the overall good fortune of their party nationally in the waning years of an unpopular Republican president. None of the state’s politically consequential Democratic Congressmen are ready to come home from Washington, D.C. after paying their dues for so many years.

Lincoln Davis, last year, all but announced his intention to run for Governor.

UPDATE: Brewer has updated his column thanks to Sean Braisted.

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