Here’s his new fiance Emily Threlkeld at Bergdorf’s for cocktails recently. As you’ll recall several black women are questioning the politician’s choice in brides.

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As Harold Ford Jr. preps for his upcoming marriage to Emily Threlkeld, he may want to also be thinking about how to appease some black voters in his home state of Tennesse — if, that is, he ultimately wants to be elected as governor there, as insiders have said.

In reaction to his proposal last month, several African-American voters have been asking in various Internet forums why he didn’t choose a black mate.

“Why is he doing this to his people?” one woman who claimed to have dated him in the past has asked Big Head DC. “I am hurt, and we should all be angry.”

Ford’s connection to his heritage has long been questioned. “If you take a big hypodermic needle, stuck it in a brothers arm, and sucked all the Hip Hop out of him, you would be left with Harold Ford Jr.,” one blogger wrote in April. “No flavor. No sista. No courage. Second class white boy. Post Civil Rights Negro.”

The politician has not responded to requests for comment to date, but some say he had hope to project a more “settled image” by getting married.

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Cindy Adams, the aging New York Post gossip doyenne, got a few facts wrong in her recent write-up of Harold Ford, Jr.’s engagement to fashionista Emily Threlkeld:

GENTS in love brings me to New York businessman Harold Ford, former congressman from Tennessee who is also a maybe senator from Tennessee. He is also, as of Friday, the fiancé of fashionista Emily Threlkeld. After their three-year relationship, bachelor Harold was to surprise her in Paris and propose and phone me right afterward at 3 p.m. New York time. He called 7:30.

“She was an hour late for dinner because she’s at the collections working for Carolina Herrera,” he told me. “I had champagne and a whole party waiting at the Bar Vendome at the Ritz. When she finally arrived she said she had to go back to the hotel for her charger because her phone was dying.”

The future groom gave her his BlackBerry. Also an engagement ring. The future bride is now about to give him a springtime wedding date. And a blessing on their heads, mazel tov, mazel tov.

First, Adams says Ford is “also maybe senator from Tennessee.” WTF? No, he’s not a senator from Tennessee. He lost. No doubt about that, Cindy. Read more…

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Harold Ford, Jr., the former congressman from Tennessee, is gearing up to sponsor an upcoming educational event with his new fiancee, fashionista Emily Threlkeld, Big Head DC has learned. The power couple is helping to plan a glitzy benefit for NYC’s East Harlem School to be held on Nov. 8.

Washington insiders expect Ford to continue to ramp up his social schedule with his new first lady by his side as he preps to soon run for governor of his home state. As we first told you in July, Tennessee’s governor seat will be ripe for the plucking in 2010, and our sources said then that Ford has been very keen on running for the position. He’s also looking to have children soon, we’ve been told.

During Ford’s failed run for Senate in 2006, some opposing members of the GOP attempted to paint him as a philandering bachelor. In the past, he has been linked with infamous NYC D-lister Julia Allison, who had been caught up in a shifty plagiarism scandal during her Washington college days.

Related: Harold Ford, Jr.: Not a Cheap Date

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Harold Ford, Jr. has popped the question to Emily Threlkeld, a young fashionista who’s provided big bucks to his past political campaigns, as Big Head DC revealed months ago. Flashback:

Big Head DC recently spotted the former Congressman from Tenn. celebrating his freshly-inked talking head deal with FOX News at a Washington hotel with his hotter than hot newish blond girlfriend Emily Threlkeld, a PR know-it-all at the Carolina Herrara fashion house.

When informed of the sighting, a past Ford muse (who he’s apparently worked quite hard to keep on the down low) asked us to look into how the deep-pocketed Threlkeld, who maintains residences in NYC and a posh section of Miami, got to know the hunky power player.

And - oh! - the trails a spurned heart heart will lead you. Read more…

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Big Head DC readers learned some time ago that one of Washington’s most eligible princes of politics Harold Ford, Jr. is dating a pretty blond gal named Emily Threlkeld. So why did the New York Post fail to mention her in a new gossip item about a recent Ford romp about NYC:

One woman’s not enough for 37-year-old bachelor Harold Ford Jr.. The former Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Tennessee was holed up at Blue Ribbon Sushi on Sullivan Street with three blondes on Wednesday night. “They all stayed until 2 a.m. singing and dancing, and he was pretty tipsy,” one onlooker snickered. For Ford’s sake, let’s hope none of his dinner guests goes on to hit Internet stardom via kissing and telling.

The Internet star in question, of course, is one Julia Allison — a daily Gawker fave — and former DC controversy-prone journalist. But she’s definitely not blond, so we’re pretty sure that Ford must have been connecting with some other ladies the other evening. And if one of them wasn’t Threlkeld, he’s definitely got some explaining to do.

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Tennessee’s governor seat will be ripe for the plucking in 2010, and word is that former Rep. Harold Ford, Jr. - who’s whipped up a lot of frenzy on Big Head DC lately with revelations about his saucy love life - is interested in the job.

The New York Post reported over the July 4th holiday that an NBC source asked Ford what would be next on his agenda, and he reportedly replied, “I’m gonna be governor.”

Big Head DC has now spoken to sources close to Ford who’ve asked not to be identified, with two confirming that he’s “definitely” considering a run.

Conventional Beltway wisdom placed Ford running for Congress again soon (he ran a failed bid for Senate in 2006), but our sources say he thinks he’s young enough to build up his political career in the Tennessee State House and then try to make the jump to the U.S. Senate again. They say he also may be looking to start a family soon (perhaps with Emily Threlkeld), and he may view the governor’s mansion as a more stable place to do that.

Earlier: Harold Ford, Jr.: Not a Cheap Date; Being Julia: New 100K+ Per Year Star Mag Editor is Former Georgetown Sex Column Plagiarist

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OK, OK, so we can’t just lead you on with a little tidbit about a former plagiarizing Georgetown college vixen who changed her name, moved to NYC, got a wildly overpaid job at Star magazine, and once shagged politico Harold Ford, Jr. without sharing a little more salaciousness about the junior Ford’s current and past gal pals. Right?

Big Head DC recently spotted the former Congressman from Tenn. celebrating his freshly-inked talking head deal with FOX News at a Washington hotel with his hotter than hot newish blond girlfriend Emily Threlkeld, a PR know-it-all at the Carolina Herrara fashion house.

When informed of the sighting, a past Ford muse (who he’s apparently worked quite hard to keep on the down low) asked us to look into how the deep-pocketed Threlkeld, who maintains residences in NYC and a posh section of Miami, got to know the hunky power player.

And - oh! - the trails a spurned heart heart will lead you. Read more…

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In-the-know Washingtonians may recall a sassy young lass named Julia Baugher, a former Georgetown University sex and dating columnist who disgraced the school’s student newspaper The Hoya because she plagiarized portions of a column from iVillage. But give the go-getter gal a few years in New York and, suddenly, she has a spiffy new name, “Julia Allison” and will now be earning upwards of 100K per year as the editor-at-large of the well-known Star tabloid/magazine.

“Maybe I’m just old-fashioned, but I remember back when being outed as a plagiarist carried the stigma of getting charged with rape,” a DC journalist familiar with Allison’s past misdeeds told Big Head DC. “It would ruin you. Now you have Baugher a budding celebrity…”

So, did Baugher change her name to avoid being known as a plagarist?

Perhaps fortuitously, there will be little journalistic prowess involved with Allison’s new job: “She won’t be editing or writing, but she will be appearing as a talking expert whenever TV comes calling for someone to go on air to comment on the latest celebrity gossip or scandal,” according to the NY Post.

Allison has said in the past that she much prefers doing TV to writing because it takes less effort.

Unless you just copy and paste, that is!

Bonus fun fact just because it’s Thursday: Back when Allison was still Baugher she had a scandalous relationship with politico Harold Ford, Jr., (and current FOX News talking head), which was first reported in WaPo’s Reliable Source column by the paper’s ex-gossip Lloyd Grove. Later, Allison had a not-so-discreet affair with - you guessed it! - Lloyd Grove.

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The rumor is that he’s going to pop the question to a sweetheart soon, but we can’t confirm yet… Last week he was named vice chairman and senior policy adviser for Merrill Lynch, so maybe he’s ready to set up house?

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