News analysis: Dean vs. Clement, the battle begins

Arguably the most embarrassing day in the history of Nashville happened in October of 1990. That's when Mayor Bill Boner hammed it up on the Phil Donahue Show with his new wife Traci Peel.

Our still-married-to-another-woman yet dating while he was mayor playing "Rocky Top" on the harmonica caused a whiplash of epidemic proportions as Nashvillians bowed their heads in disgust. Boner married Peel three days after his divorce to Betty Boner was final.