Thursday, January 25, 2007
Ford says he will not challenge Alexander for Senate
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former Rep. Harold Ford Jr., the Tennessee Democrat who lost a close race for Senate last November, told CNN Thursday he has no plans to seek Tennessee's other Senate seat in 2008.
Ford, the new head of the Democratic Leadership Council, said he will not mount a campaign against Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander for the seat but would instead focus on his new positions as head of the DLC and as a professor at Vanderbilt University. "My plan is right away to try to do a good job with the DLC," Ford told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "I'm proud to say that I'm associated with Vanderbilt University; I'm now a professor of public policy." "I'm young and God has worked with me this far, and I've just got a good feeling that things will work out in the future," Ford added. -- CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney
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