Wilder’s Last Letter

By Kleinheider Posted on June 25, 2008 at 9:17 am

Former Lt. Governor John Wilder pens an interesting farewell letter sent to state newspaper editors weaving, once again, the power of cosmos into his rhetoric:

“We need statesmen,” Wilder, of Mason, said in the letter as he referred to the vote. “We do not need 17 Republicans and one independent Democrat, Kurita, letting someone vote them (as a block). I feel bad about this statement, but it is the truth.”

He described himself as a “Jeffersonian Democrat.”

“I would not have been state senator and speaker of the Senate if it were not for the African-Americans and Independent Republicans,” he wrote. “Democrats made the most difference, but it would not have been enough because my district is 60 percent Republican.”

SEE ALSO:
John Wilder’s retirement speech
Wilder’s final battle for the Tennessee Plan
Wilder on the cosmos

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