All of that tells me there's plenty of jockeying going on in the Governor's race. The rumors of a Lunsford-Worley ticket apparently have some legs. Worley admits he's had conversations with some potential candidates for governor, without saying who. He is out of town. So was Lunsford, leading to speculation that the two hooked up for discussions at an airport. Again, as I've written in a previous posting, Lunsford told me last week that he wasn't running for governor, had no idea who was spreading that rumor and insisted he had no interest in running. Maybe he changed his mind or is just trying to drive Ben Chandler nuts.

Speaking of Chandler: His attempt to play kingmaker and find an alternative candidate/ticket for governor that he could endorse appears to be backfiring. We know Chandler decided over the weekend not to run for governor. His behind-the-scenes attempt to pull together a Charlie Owen-Jonathan Miller ticket has confused his fellow high ranking democrats. As one high profile elected democrat told me today "I can't believe Chandler is getting himself involved in all of this......he's just going to piss people off". And I haven't talked to a single democrat in the past two days who is jumping up and down about the prospect of an Owen-Miller ticket. Both men are generally well liked and respected by their party faithful, they're just incapable of generating the excitement that a Chandler-Luallen or Luallen-Conway ticket might have generated.