Karl Dean, Jim Cooper raising money for Georgia’s Michelle Nunn

Some of Nashville's best-known Democrats plan to open their checkbooks Monday night for a neighboring state's U.S. Senate nominee.

Mayor Karl Dean and his wife, Anne Davis, will host a fund-raiser at their Green Hills home for Michelle Nunn, the Democratic nominee to succeed retiring U.S. Sen. Saxby Chambliss, a Georgia Republican.

U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, D-Nashville, will be an honorary host, and former Tennessee Democratic Party chairmen Chip Forrester and Bob Tuke are also on the host committee.

Tickets to the reception cost $2,600 for hosts, $1,000 for “patrons” and $500 for “friends.”

Nunn, whose father, Sam Nunn, was a highly respected senator from Georgia from 1972 to 1996, will face the winner of a July 22 Republican primary runoff. The GOP candidates are U.S. Rep. Jack Kingston and businessman David Perdue, whom Middle Tennessee readers might remember as the CEO of Goodlettsville-based Dollar General from 2003 to 2007.

Nunn, a nonprofit executive, asked Kingston and Perdue in a letter Wednesday to “agree to a Peach State Pledge — a pledge to refuse spending by outside groups in Georgia’s U.S. Senate race,” The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported.

But donations from other states’ residents are OK, apparently.

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