According to the blogger at That's My Congress, there isn't a candidate that appeals to progressives in the Third District race:
Paula Flowers is running for Congress on a decidedly anti-progressive platform. She’s in favor of shrinking the size of the federal government, and for allowing big oil companies to start drilling along radically expanded areas up and down America’s coastlines, offering a rather indiscriminate energy plan she calls “do it all” that includes spending more money on the hoax of “clean coal”. Flowers is calling for legislative efforts to deal with climate change to be slowed down - even before they’ve begun.
Paula Flowers is not only against single payer health care plans, she’s against a public option as well. Flowers is even against a bill that allows states to opt out of participation in a public option system.
Joe Lance
openid-13611 on Nov. 16, 2009
If progressives want a viable candidate to run in the third district they will have to get more progressives to move into the district. The third district is just too conservative for a progressive to win.
Mary Mancini on Nov. 16, 2009
The post about Paula Flowers was written anonymously. It should be given the weight based on that.
grundygreen on Nov. 16, 2009
The post is dead on. The TN Democrats are about to make the same mistake as what happened in Virginia. There the Democratic candidate for governor stated anti -union sentiments, campaigned against cap & trade, stated the public option wasn't needed, supported MTR, and took a hard line on immigration. Progressives didn't show up to vote because they didn't have a candidate. Could it happen again in TN-03?