Karl Dean Elected Mayor of Nashville (Clinton: environment, work, moving to)

[alleycat]

Karl Dean has been elected the next mayor of Nashvillle. The vote was approximately 52,000 to Clement's 48,000.

Personally, while I'm not sure about Dean yet, I'm glad that Clement won't be the next mayor.

[JMT]

Originally Posted by alleycat

Karl Dean has been elected the next mayor of Nashvillle. The vote was approximately 52,000 to Clement's 48,000.

Personally, while I'm not sure about Dean yet, I'm glad that Clement won't be the next mayor.

I don't know much about him, either, but I did notice that he's originally from South Dakota and didn't move to Nashville until he went to law school at Vanderbilt.

Nashville's current mayor, Bill Purcell, is also from up north (Pennsylvania?), and the previous mayor, Phil Bredesen (currently our state's governor), is from New Jersey.

For all those non-Southerners out there who are terrified about moving to Nashville because they don't think Nashvillians will accept them, then why do Nashvillians continue to vote for mayors who from up North?

[ben52284]

Personally, that was part of the reason that I voted for Dean(and Ford for that matter). Allegations that the opponent is a northerner(from Clement and Corker) seem in poor taste and irrelevant to the discussion. I know I never heard allegations of candidates being from the south when I lived in OH and PA.

[alleycat]

Originally Posted by ben52284

Personally, that was part of the reason that I voted for Dean(and Ford for that matter). Allegations that the opponent is a northerner(from Clement and Corker) seem in poor taste and irrelevant to the discussion. I know I never heard allegations of candidates being from the south when I lived in OH and PA.

I think those days are just about over. It was once a reminder of carpetbagger days when a northerner ran for office in the south.

And there was once quite a bias on both sides when he came to national office. When Bill Clinton ran for president he felt comfortable enough to put another southerner on the ticket. Thirty or forty years earlier he would have probably felt compelled to find someone from another region of the country, just as Kennedy did when he picked Lyndon Johnson.

[ariesjow]

I'm happy Dean won. Though I didn't move back to Nashville early enough to vote in this election, Dean was my preferred candidate well prior to the run-off. There's already so much great progress happening around us here in Nashville, but I believe Dean possibly has the tools to take the city to the next level. I didn't quite feel the same way about Clement.

I felt great about Dean stances on the issues I value most: helping facilitating the great economic progress and development already in works around Davidson County (especially in the core of the city), improving the quality of our public schools which, in turn, will more of our talented professionals here and lure more in from elsewhere, and understanding that, as the city grows, it has to be a welcoming environment for people of all walks of life. Dean was also the candidate who seemed to genuinely care the most about the issues that effect Nashville's gay and lesbian community which made him receive more major kudos in my book.

[Optimum]

Originally Posted by ben52284
Personally, that was part of the reason that I voted for Dean(and Ford for that matter). Allegations that the opponent is a northerner(from Clement and Corker) seem in poor taste and irrelevant to the discussion. I know I never heard allegations of candidates being from the south when I lived in OH and PA.

Originally Posted by alleycat
I think those days are just about over.

I hope those days are over too.....but it takes people like you and me who will walk daily and not judge others by their outward appearances or 'where they come from'.......let's look at the heart of a man or woman and the 'good fruit' they produce....let's all work for the good of Nashville, America and Our one and only Earth......hip hip horray!!!

Hoping the best...ain't nothing wrong with that...smiles!!!!

blessings,
Optimum

[artemis]

Originally Posted by JMT

I don't know much about him, either, but I did notice that he's originally from South Dakota and didn't move to Nashville until he went to law school at Vanderbilt.

Nashville's current mayor, Bill Purcell, is also from up north (Pennsylvania?), and the previous mayor, Phil Bredesen (currently our state's governor), is from New Jersey.

For all those non-Southerners out there who are terrified about moving to Nashville because they don't think Nashvillians will accept them, then why do Nashvillians continue to vote for mayors who from up North?

Karl Dean is from Massachusetts

[Carol McCullough]

You're both right:
According to several sources, Dean was born in South Dakota and spent most of his youth in Massachusetts.

[Pimpy]

Too liberal for my tastes. I wish more people had listened to me and turned out for Buck Dozier. Then South Nashville might be an English speaking country again in the next decade.

[gumshoe52]

I agree with "Pimpy". I too voted for Mr. Dozier, as he was a teacher of mine at David Lipscomb High School years ago. Too bad we will probably continue to have a liberal mayor in this town.