Congressman Harold Ford

Former Rep. Harold Ford Jr. Paying Close Attention to President Obama's SOTU, Particularly on Energy Industry Former Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (D-TN)  is concerned with the economy and how certain factors and policies are stifling our ability to recover and progress. Ford has questioned and spoken widely about the need to fix our domestic energy industry. He is particularly concerned with the over-complication of the tax system small and large businesses face.  Last spring after speaking with...Read Full Story

I was watching Morning Joe on MSNBC Tuesday morning as I do everyday, and a very interesting discussion took place between Joe Scarborough, Melissa Harris-Lacewell, Harold Ford, Jr., and my man crush, author and editor of Newsweek magazine, Jon Meacham.Mika Brzezinski, Scarborough’s co-host, was at the table as well being her usual pretentious, oblivious, ass-hat self, and offering nothing of substance.Anyhoo…The conversation centered on former Rep. Harold Ford’s (D-TN) aborted run for the U...Read Full Story

Harold Ford Jr. decides not to run for the New York Senate seat held by Kirsten Gillibrand. Did race play a role in the arm twisting by party leaders to dissuade him from running? New York state politics have been dominant in the grand scheme of things, but when viewed through the lens of race, the conclusions are rather interesting. It seems that blacks are on the periphery of holding high-power political offices in New York City, for example. David Dinkins, who was the first and possibly...Read Full Story

Harold Ford Jr.  This space never has had anything negative to blog about Former Congressman Harold Ford Jr. until today. His statement about Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin was so grating the television set was turned off. Ford said that Palin was going to run for President and that she was "formidable." That was when this space wondered if Ford was being paid by a Republican operative. Sarah Palin has so many errors and mistakes that will be tossed back at her in the middle of a...Read Full Story

Today’s email tray brings news from “New Yorkers for Marriage Equality” that former Memphis congressman Harold Ford Jr., now working on Wall Street and a resident of New York, has done a full 180-degree turn on the opposition to same-sex marriage which he expressed as a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Tennessee in 2006. Ford, whose trial run for a 2008 Senate campaign in New York was aborted, partly because of organized opposition by the state’s gay community to his candidacy, has now made...Read Full Story