Subject: Ford Discussed Switching Parties with Rove
From: "Eric Schwerin" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>, "Beau Biden" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2010 19:17:12 -0500

Ford Discussed Switching Parties with
Rove<http://politicalwire.com/archives/2010/03/04/ford_discussed_switching_parties_with_rove.html>

Lloyd Grove<http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-03-04/karl-roves-conservative-problem/?cid=hp:mainpromo3>reports
that shortly after the 2004 election, Rep. Harold Ford Jr. (D-TN)
requested a meeting with Karl Rove to discuss his political future in
Tennessee.

"According to a knowledgeable source, Rove sat for three hours with the
young congressman at the Washington home of mutual friends, where Ford
floated the idea of switching parties to run for the Senate in 2006 as a
Republican -- that is, if President Bush could 'clear the field' and prevent
a contested primary. According to my source, Rove responded encouragingly,
but nothing came of the secret session, and Ford ended up running -- and
losing -- as a Dem."

A Ford spokesman confirms the meeting but says it was Rove who wanted Ford
to switch parties.

Eric D. Schwerin

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