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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