lincoln davis

Democrats today are cheering over the fact that Travis Childers beat Greg Davis 54-46 in a special election for the Mississippi 1st Congressional district.

Jim Cooper is ranting against Hillary Clinton again for opposing his health-care reform bill back in 1993. To the Memphis Daily News, he comments on The Hill newspaper's report last week that Rep. Lincoln Davis, one of the Democratic Party's uncommitted superdelegates, turned down an invitation to meet with Clinton.

Herman Wang reports that Rep. Lincoln Davis doesn’t think it is the role of a superdelegate to commit to a candidate before the convention.

First lady Laura Bush has accepted an invitation to the Tennessee Preservation Trust’s annual statewide conference, to be held in Columbia June 5-7, the nonprofit’s executive said.

The Rothenberg Political Report discusses Rep. Lincoln Davis’s likely run for Governor and the congressional race his departure from the House would set up:

Clint Brewer at the City Paper writes up the chances for Democrats retaining the Governorship after Bredesen leaves in 2010. Of Kim McMillan, Brewer writes:

The City Paper’s Clint Brewer, in a piece on possible Democratic Gubernatorial candidates, declares, by omission, Rep. Lincoln Davis “politically inconsequential”:

Congressman Lincoln Davis discusses the Congressional role in the Housing crisis with  a Chattanooga television news station.

Kim McMillan’s interest in the governorship throws her in with already-declared (sorta) Congressman Lincoln Davis,likely candidate Harold Ford, Jr., and the lingering former Nashville mayor, Bill Purcell. Bill Frist and Ron Ramsey have shown interest on the Republican side, and there are rumors that Marsha Blackburn and Knoxville Mayor Bill Haslam are also considering a run as well.

Jeff Woods asserts that Kim McMillan announced hellah early for Governor to keep the Democratic primary a one liberal contest: