Mon
Jul 20 2009
05:26 pm
Squishy Dems
By: R. Neal

Humphrey

Knox County District Attorney General Randy Nichols, a lifelong Democrat, says he is crossing party lines to support a fellow prosecutor's run for governor because of friendship and the Republican's anti-crime emphasis.

OK, then.

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bill young's picture

Randy Nichols

Submitted by bill young on Mon, 2009/07/20 - 6:08pm.

Randy has served our Party well.

But I strongly disagreed with his support of JJ over Tyree for
sheriff.

However, I said at the time I would vote for him if he ran for
re election AS A DEMOCRAT.That is now a moot point.

Randy knows what needs to be done to reform the criminal
justice system & just because he supported a Republican
for sheriff & now supports a Republican for governor that
opinion will not change.

I will continue to support his ideas.

I also know Randy's support of JJ,last year,
& Gibbons,next year,comes from the heart.

Randy & I will simply part ways POLITICALLY.
I'm still a partisan Democrat..Randy no longer is.

Randy is a fine man who I will always consider a friend.

But come election time I'll be with him when he votes Democrat.
Against him when he doesn't.

Ragsdale2010's picture

I thought Nichols run in 2002 was to be AG in 2003

Submitted by Ragsdale2010 (not verified) on Mon, 2009/07/20 - 6:20pm.

I was under the impression that the only reason Nichols ran for governor in 2002 was to commandeer a portion of the Democratic base in East Tennessee to hand off to Bredesen in the Fall, to be named Attorney General in 2003.

Can you image what Tennessee would look like if Randy Nichols was the State's attorney general?

Look at what the Knoxville landscape looks like with Randy Nichols as attorney general.

Supporting the weakest Republican is a safe political play for Nichols as he'll have opposition at the run for the next term, the dissatisfaction with the ongoing recusals and hyginx in county government is deplorable.

knoxrebel's picture

Get your facts straight,

Submitted by knoxrebel on Tue, 2009/07/21 - 12:04pm.

Get your facts straight, Rags. Nichols ran for guv in '02 for 2 reasons, as I recall: first, when he entered the race, there were 5 other supposedly "credible" candidates: Bredesen, Bob Clement, Doug Horne, Andy Womack (now on-board with Jim Kyle) and Charles Smith. Second, he had always wanted to run for guv and a 6-person field offered an unique opportunity. But as Horne & Clement later discovered, Bredesen had traveled to every county and lined up the big donors and politicos. That's why they bailed, leaving Nichols, who had decided to do it no matter what, to suffer his fate.

And Bredesen had absolutely no control over who was selected as State AG, since under Article VI, Section 5 of the Tennessee Constitution, the attorney general is appointed by justices of the Tennessee Supreme Court for an eight-year term.

Finally, Nichols has said since he was re-elected in 2006 that he would not run again for DA, which is why the machinations began in '06 between several assistant DA's to work their way into the mix to be Nichols' successor.

Rigsby Werner's picture

Nichols probably won't run

Submitted by Rigsby Werner (not verified) on Tue, 2009/07/21 - 1:20am.

Nichols probably won't run again for another term, however, I don't think he will prosectue any of the dirty tricksters in the county anytime soon.

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