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...last summer's Vice Presidential search, but she also withdrew her name for Cabinet posts' consideration in early December, citing the deteriorating budget in her home state. Other possibilities include Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell; former Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber, who has practiced as a physician, and Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen, a former managed-care executive...
...part, Ford's strategy will be to treat Tennessee the way it usually behaves on Election Day--like three separate states. It is a variation on the game plan that got the state's popular Democratic Governor Phil Bredesen elected in 2002. Ford hopes his candidacy will boost African-American turnout to the levels it generally reaches only in presidential election years; that could add as many as 120,000 more votes statewide, about half of them from the western part of the state around Memphis. He is also working harder than most Democratic candidates do in Tennessee's conservative...
...Bottom line: Tennessee has no recall provision and Bredesen should weather the pain - as long as he doesn?t stand near a window. - with reporting by Amanda Bower and Mitch Frank/New York; Frank Sikora/Birmingham; Elisabeth Kauffman/Nashville; and Pat Dawson/Billings
...Democrat Phil Bredesen, a self-made millionaire, won the seat telling voters they?d never hear a peep out of him about an income tax to balance the budget. But Bredesen quickly realized the one-cent sale tax hike wouldn?t be nearly enough to cover the budget shortfall. ?The problems were more severe than I thought they would be,? he says. So Bredesen, who?s refusing a salary, took a meat cleaver to the budget, slashing $400 million and 847 state jobs. State officials may even repossess library books - including Dr. Seuss - from rural schools that haven?t paid...
...most of the others are Protestants who belong to the sobersided Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship-Episcopalians, Lutherans, Presbyterians and Methodists. Five have Phi Beta Kappa keys, and six plan to enter the ministry after graduation. They date their experience to two campus visits last October by the Rev. Harald Bredesen, pastor of the First Reformed Church of Mount Vernon, N.Y., and a prominent advocate of glossolalia as a means of heightening the spiritual life of churches. His formula for speaking in tongues: put the vocal cords in motion, then prayerfully turn them over...