September 14, 2005

Bloggers: You're Invited to Lunch With Ed Bryant

The second meeting of the Nashville area's citizen's editorial board is set for lunchtime Wednesday, Sept. 21. That's right, it's almost time for the second monthly Nashville Area Political Bloggers Lunch.

Former U.S. Rep. Ed Bryant, a candidate for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate from Tennessee, has graciously agreed to be our guest. We have room for about 15 bloggers, so if you are interested please send me or Sharon Cobb an email for details including exact location. (It will be at a restaurant not far from Vanderbilt University that has free wi-fi in case you want to live-blog it. We don't publish the location because the event is not open to the public and is space-limited.)

The lunch is scheduled for 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Format will be casual, but on the record, just as last month's lunch session with state Sen. Rosalind Kurita, who is running for the Democratic nomination for the same U.S. Senate seat.

We are aiming for rough ideological balance to the panel of bloggers, so please, lefties as well as righties, reserve a seat today! Seating preference will be given to Nashville-area bloggers who write primarily about politics will be given seating preference if more than 15 bloggers indicate interest in coming, but bloggers from outside the Nashville area also are invited, provided there is space.

Future lunch plans: U.S. Rep. Harold Ford Jr.'s Senate campaign has said he'll be a guest at a future lunch, probably in October, and today Jennifer Coxe of former U.S. Rep. Van Hilleary's Senate campaign called me to express interest in Hilleary being a guest at the monthly bloggers lunch in November.