Despite devastating Democratic losses in last week’s midterm election, Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Chip Forrester says he has a “strong interest” in staying at the party’s helm.
But a former chairman of the party as well as another Democrat who may be interested in the job said it is time for Forrester to go.
In an interview, Forrester “when I ran two years ago I made it clear that I felt the work we needed to do to create a sustaining fundraising base and a sustaining party and not rely on living from chair to chair would most likely require four years. I am like everyone else just sort of taking a little time since Tuesday to kind of contemplate the future.
“But,” he said, “I have a strong interest in looking at it [chairmanship] and will make a decision quite soon.”
Former state Democratic Party Chairman Will T. Cheek said Forrester should not run again.