Harold Ford Jr favored for Senate by Governor Breseden ?

while there has been talk of Ford running for Senate there hasn't been much talk of his chances in a Primary if he does run. the article says many others have declared while he hasn't yet. even mentions the controversy with his uncle as reason why he has not yet announced officially. but if Ford gets the endorsement of the Governor of the State Breseden in the Primary how much would it help him in the Primary ?


<Harold Ford Jr.’s fundraiser at the Hilton on ‘Ridgelake Boulevard Wednesday night was a big-time social event at one level and a serious real-world enterprise on another.. Though the invitation (signed onto by 80 sponsors!) bore the words “Releect Harold Ford," the event was fairly universally seen as an effort to build a kitty for the 9th District congressman’s long-expected U.,S. Senate race in 2006,

That’s what all the talk has been about for months now in political circles, and that’s what the multitude of attendees who showed up Wednesday night were talking about. A word about those attendees, a truly diversified host: There were belles and bankers, architects and entrepreneurs, lawyers and legislators, judges and jukers, pols and peepers: At $1,000 a head for the top ticket, the turnout might well have been good enough to reach the designated goal of $1 million – even making allowances for all the lesser players and outright comps on hand.

Oh, and one of the attendees -- the guest of honor, in fact – was a governor, Tennessee’s own Democratic chief executive, Phil Bredesen., who chose to appear on Rep. Ford’s behalf despite the fact that a state senator from his party, Rosalind Kurita of Clarksdale, one of those whom the governor depends upon to pass his legislation, is already a declared candidate for the very U.S. Senate seat that Ford is presumed about to seek.

”I don’t have a problem with that,” Kurita said by telephone later Wednesday night “The only thing I can conclude is that the congressman really is running for reelection, and the governor is entirely within his rights to support him. He attended many a fundraiser for me when I was running for reelection to the state senate.”

Kurita refused even to countenance the idea that, with Ford conspicuously on the cusp of decision about the Senate race, Bredesen’s help with the gala big-money fundraiser might – quite literally -- tip the scales for Ford.>

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votes on. Not only is his last name Ford, but he's from Memphis. People in East and Middle TN don't like Memphians.