Harold Ford Jr. has a national base of support if he decides to run for the Senate in New York — a network of donors and friends cultivated over years that could ease the burden of raking in campaign cash.
“I have people calling me every day, asking where they can send a check,” said Charles Robert Bone, who was Ford’s finance director during Ford’s 2006 Senate run in Tennessee.
Film producer Lawrence Bender (“Inglourious Basterds”) who is part of a California-based group of donors who have backed Ford in past races, said, “I would dive in in a second to support him. “He’s a friend, number one,” Bender told The Post. “I’ve supported him quite a bit in his past races, and I think we need him.”
In New York, some longtime Ford friends — like Orin Kramer, Ronald Perelman and Steve Rattner and his wife, Maureen White — have already committed to Ford if he runs.