February 03, 2006

Party Switch in Senate?

State Senator Don McLeary may end up switching parties today...

"I will make a statement about my political future tomorrow afternoon at 5," McLeary told the newspaper from the living room of his home Thursday night.

"If you miss this, you'll miss something big," Madison County Republican Chairman Gary Deaton said.

Republicans currently hold the majority in the Senate, 18-16.

Speculation of his plans to defect from the Democratic party began when he was the only Democrat in the Senate to vote Jan. 17 for a proposal to void the results of a disputed special election narrowly won by Sen. Ophelia Ford, D-Memphis.

Of course, it may not make much of a difference in Senate leadership as Wilder still has two Republican water-boys to keep his position intact.

Every little bit helps though.

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