Shelby GOP Chair Implies He’s A Reluctant Cohen Supporter

By Kleinheider Posted on June 23, 2009 at 10:11 am

From Jackson Baker:

At one point, Wiseman dealt frankly with the concept of crossover voting. The catalyst was a question about the looming confrontation between Mayor Willie Herenton and incumbent congressman Cohen in the 2010 9th District Democratic primary.

Acknowledging that the race would create a turnout “bad for the Republicans” and that it would be a “very difficult idea to try and win for a Republican in that race, “ Wiseman began, “I’ll tell you who I would vote for. You’d have to hold your nose…,” and then, amid knowing chuckles from his score or so of listeners, left the rest of that thought go unexpressed.

UPDATE: Lang Wiseman in the comments:

For the record, I am not a Cohen “supporter.” The context of the question was IF I were a voter in the Democrat primary forced to choose between two bad options.

Thankfully I am not, will not, and won’t ever be voting in a Democrat primary. To the contrary, I think Republicans need to vote in the Republican primary in order to give fair consideration to all of gubernatorial candidates who will be on the ballot at that same time. Indeed, I’d hate to see Bill Gibbons at a competitive disadvantage simply due to the happenstance of the race being on the same ballot as a popular Democrat primary.

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