Things are starting to warm up in the Tennessee Democratic Party Chair race.
After local attorney Ben Smith withdrew on Monday, it brought the field down to four: current party treasurer Dave Garrison, former state Sen. Roy Herron, former party communications director Wade Munday and vice president and political liaison for the Chattanooga Area Labor Council Jane Hampton Bowen.
With the Jan. 26 election by the party's executive committee bearing down, the candidates are counting votes and shoring up support. On Tuesday, the mayors of the three biggest cities in the state — Nashville's Karl Dean, Knoxville's Madeline Rogero and Memphis' A C Wharton — endorsed Garrison.
The endorsement after the jump . . .
