Tennessee Democratic Money Ready To Pull A Cartman

By Kleinheider Posted on January 21, 2009 at 8:48 am

Woods gets into the chatter on the race to replace Gray Sasser as head of the TNDP:

“The money people are on Charles Robert’s side,” one insider tells Pith. “Seriously, if Chip gets the chairmanship, they’re pulling out. They’re done with the party. I think you’d see the governor’s office bail out and the congressionals bail out. So I don’t know where Chip would get his money, I really don’t.”

Forrester jumped into the race early–the day after the Nov. 4 election–and appeared to have locked down a majority of the committee. He is the party treasurer and himself has belonged to the committee since 1988.

But many party leaders see Forrester, 54, as a flake. He wears a bow tie, although he’s promised to drop it if he wins. Beyond matters of image, he pissed off many Democrats by challenging Bob Clement for Congress in the party primary in 1992.

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