Thursday, October 01, 2009

Yarbro--now THAT'S progressive!

In announcing a District 21 primary challenge against "Dean of the Senate" Douglas Henry (D-Nashville) Jeff Yarbro offers this critique of Henry:
Too often, our elected representatives have spent more time playing partisan politics than supporting our schools, creating jobs, fighting crime, and improving our health. The Tennessee General Assembly is failing to address either the short-term economic crisis or the long-term challenges facing our state.
(emphasis mine) Surely Yarbro isn't accusing Doug Henry of this? Yarbro doesn't showcase any Liberal policies on his campaign site, but he is careful to sprinkle the word "Progressive" here and there. No doubt Henry gets under the skin of folks like Chip Forrester. I guess Yarbro wasn't willing to take on Jim Cooper?

3 comments:

Sean Braisted said...

"No doubt Henry gets under the skin of folks like Chip Forrester."

Say huh? Not sure what Forrester has to do with anything, but this isn't a matter of not liking Sen. Henry and what he's done in the past, its about securing a future for the State and for the party.

ned said...

Oh, okay. A primary challenge to one of the longest serving (Blue dog) Democrats by a well-heeled, well-credentialed candidate isn't something that the new TN Dems are involved in?

Sean Braisted said...

New, as in young, perhaps...but Yarbro was no cheerleader for Forrester from what I can recall, and Forrester would probably like nothing more than to simply focus on winning back Democratic seats from Republicans.