Another was the retiring Senator's wife, Sara Kyle, a former member of the Tennessee Regulatory Authority (TRA) who has reportedly missed active politics since the old Public Service Commission, to which she'd been elected, was transformed in the 1990s, at the behest of then GovernorDon Sundquist,
Whatever the ordained pathway, political complexities will abound. A contest between Marrero, a Cohen protg, and Sara Kyle, would reactivate a longtime blood feud between former senatorial colleagues Jim Kyle and Cohen. Other candidacies could both cause and exploit splits in Democratic party rank