Monday, January 19, 2009
Legislature / Politics Democratic Insider: Tim McGraw Will Run for Governor in 2010
Posted by Pete Kotz on Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 11:25 AM
All is not already lost for Democrats in the 2010 Tennessee gubernatorial race. Memphis Flyer columnist Jackson Baker reports that, at least according to one insider, Tim McGraw will run for governor. We'll let Baker do the talking:
As Mark Norris of Collierville, the Republicans' state Senate majority leader, and Doug Jackson of Dickson, the Democrats' vice caucus chairman in the Senate, were chatting it up on the House floor after last Thursday's election of constitutional officers, the talk came around to the 2010 governor's race.
Maybe it was just opening-session badinage, a means of relieving some of the lingering cross-party tension that accrued to the controversial election of House Speaker Kent Williams of Elizabethton, a Republican who won the post with Democratic votes. Or maybe it was just a natural conversational outgrowth of the friendly relationship the two party leaders seem to have.
Or maybe it was true 'gen.
In any case, Jackson had some news for Norris, who had just been good-naturedly evading a reporter's point-blank questions about Norris' possible plans to run for governor in 2010. The upshot of that was that Norris wasn't ready to close the door on a race, despite the already announced Republican candidacy of District Attorney General Bill Gibbons, a fellow Shelby Countian.
It was then that Jackson made a surprising - and apparently serious - affirmation: "Tim McGraw is going to run. And he's going to be campaigning with his band."
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