NASHVILLE -- Senate Speaker and Lt. Gov. Ron Ramsey has hired a communications director for his Republican gubernatorial campaign: Rachel Taylor, who formerly worked in the communications office of U.S. Rep. Eric Cantor of Pennsylvania, the House Republican whip and one of the opposition firebrands during the health reform debate.
A press release today from the Ramsey camp says Taylor graduated from Lynchburg College in Virginia in 2005 with a degree in political science. She's worked for Cantor since college, handling everything from local Virginia press to national media.
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The gubernatorial campaign moves to Columbia Saturday for the annual Mule Day festival and parade, surely one of Tennessee's biggest and most colorful local celebrations.
Of course there are plenty of mules. Political candidates of all stripes ride or walk in the parade. Most hold receptions to meet and greet voters before or after the 11 a.m. parade.
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By late Friday afternoon, only two of the four gubernatorial candidates had confirmed they will attend a candidate forum at the Tennessee Medical Association's annual meeting in Nashville Saturday afternoon. Republicans Ron Ramsey and Zach Wamp plan to participate in the TMA event.
Note to the TMA: in election years, it's best not to schedule your candidate forum at about the same time as Mule Day. Doctors are a very important constituency group and virtually all of them vote, but there will be thousands more likely voters at Mule Day.
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