Tennessee Democratic Party Chairman Chip Forrester said he has a “strong interest” in remaining at the party’s helm despite state Democrats’ staggering losses to Republicans in the midterm elections.
But a former state party chairman likened Forrester to the captain of the Titanic and said he needs to go.
“The captain of the Titanic, I don’t know if he did anything wrong personally either, but the ship went down and he went with it,” said Will T. Cheek. “He didn’t get a lifeboat. He didn’t ask for a new command.”
Meanwhile, former Nashville Metro Councilman David Briley, a state Democratic Party Executive Committee member, has written fellow executive committee members a letter saying Forrester should not continue as chairman.
In an interview last week, Forrester said there were a number of factors that generated the “terrible headwinds” that caused state Democrats to plummet to their lowest level since Civil War Reconstruction days.