Frist Gubernatorial Campaign Would Be No Joke

By Kleinheider Posted on May 12, 2008 at 6:42 am

Despite Bill Frist’s somewhat dubious national reputation acquired during his stint as Senate Majority Leader, some Democratic operatives in Tennessee fear what Frist would bring to the table in a Gubernatorial campaign:

Typically one of the state’s blue county, Democratic strongholds, there is a school of thought that many wealthy Nashville Democrats would have a hard time saying “no” to Frist and his family — one of the city’s oldest, most powerful business families still involved at the helm of the HCA hospital company. The thought process is that there will be a number of high-end Democratic donors in the city that would end up giving to both sides should Frist get in the race.

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