Posted on 10/05/2017 9:14:04 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn
NASHVILLE, TN (WRCB) -
Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam says he will not be running for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by current U.S. Sen. Bob Corker.
Haslam issued a statement earlier that reads::
While Crissy and I will always be grateful for all of the encouragement and support to run for the United States Senate, I am announcing today that I will not be a candidate for Senate in 2018. The primary reason is that I want to remain completely focused on my job as governor. I know that being a candidate for the Senate during my last 15 months as governor would be a distraction from the task at hand. And, while I have loved being a mayor and a governor, I don’t feel the same call to run for Senate at this point. At the end of my term, I will have been in public office for 15 years. I feel like I can be most helpful in my next service as a private citizen.
Haslam had been holding out hope that Corker, a close family friend, would run for a third term in the Senate, and didn't begin to seriously consider his own bid until he learned otherwise.
"While I have loved being a mayor and a governor, I don't feel the same call to run for Senate at this point," Haslam said. "At the end of my term, I will have been in public office for 15 years. I feel like I can be most helpful in my next service as a private citizen."
Haslam was first elected governor in 2010 and can't run again next year because of term limits. His vast personal wealth and popularity in the state would have given other Republicans contenders pause had he decided to run for Senate.
Other Republicans voicing an interest in running include U.S. Rep. Marsha Blackburn, former Rep. Stephen Fincher and state Sen. Mark Green.
Has Harold Ford announced yet???
Not as far as I can see. Later today??
DesJarlais has far too much personal baggage. Marsha would be the best.
Much worse than Corker. And Coker is pretty bad.
Before we jump on the Blackburn wagon, she needs to answer a few
questions.
Will she vote for the Turdle for Senate GOP leader?
Will she vote for simple majority rule( 51 votes).
She was a big fan of John Bonehead, the former speaker of the house.
She seems to be more conservative than others...
I’d love to see Jim Vicevich (WTIC radio host) run against Senator Stolen Valor/ BloomingIdiot (D- for Dumbass CT).
“I’d love to see Jim Vicevich (WTIC radio host) run against Senator Stolen Valor/ BloomingIdiot (D- for Dumbass CT).”
Any chance that a Republican, let alone a conservative, could win in CT?
Attorney General Patrick Morrisey is running, though he has to get past establishment choice Rep. Evan Jenkins, a recent Democrat convert.
"Any potential conservative candidate to run against Heitkamp?"
Still waiting on Rep. Kevin Cramer to get in. He should've been the nominee in 2012.
First up was incumbent Senator Bob Corker (R-TN), who made a surprise announcement on September 26 he would not run for re-election, one day after a Breitbart News report about his sweetheart deal in an Alabama retail center development in which Alabama taxpayers are set to pay him more than $3 million over 20 years in sales tax incentive rebates. Though his announcement that he would not seek re-election was couched in terms that claimed it had been made “[a]fter much thought, consideration and family discussion over the past year,” its suddenness–and the fact that Corker felt compelled to offer a lame and incomplete explanation for his investment in a deal that epitomizes the swamp in which the political elite thrive–underscores the potency of the Breitbart News report.Thanks PJ-Comix for Breitbart Goes 'Old Hickory' in Tennessee, Gets 2 Establishment Scalps
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