Mark Green decides to NOT reenter the gubernatorial race
“I will not be resuming my campaign for governor,” the state senator from Clarksville said in a statement Friday afternoon. “I will instead look to Washington, D.C., to help serve our country and provide real help to President Trump.”
In other news, Montana AG Tim Fox decides NOT to run for the US Senate. It’s rumored he wants to run for Governor in 2020 instead, decided post-body slam (as it’s unlikely Gianforte will run for Governor again now). We need someone to take out Tester.
There’s some suspicion that Green may challenge Corker for Senator. The Conservative standard-bearer for Governor of TN will be State Sen. Mae Beavers from my adjacent district (I was once in her district, then represented by her odious Dem weasel predecessor, but got shifted in 2002 from that suburban seat to a VRA urban district).
In Montana, the filing deadline to run in the 2018 GOP Senate primary is next March, and the primary itself is in June. There’s plenty of time for Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke to announce that he’s running for the Senate.