Progressive Council member Freddie O’Connell wins Nashville Mayor’s race
With Thursday’s elections, a majority of Nashville’s metro council will also be female.
With Thursday’s elections, a majority of Nashville’s metro council will also be female.
Johnson would have to survive a Democratic Primary before taking on incumbent Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn.
The crowd, which included gun control advocates urging change in a Special Session after a deadly Nashville school shooting in March, shouted ‘fascists’ and ‘racists.’
The state hasn’t elected a Democrat to a statewide office since 2006.
Earlier this year, Tennessee’s GOP-dominated Statehouse refused to consider tightening the state’s relaxed gun laws.
Thursday’s election came as lawmakers are preparing to return to Nashville later this month for a Special Session to address possibly changing the state’s gun control laws.
‘You can’t expel a movement!’
Had Republican lawmakers left the two young Black lawmakers in office, they would’ve been banned from raising cash because a Legislative Session was ongoing.
In barely two weeks ‘the Justins’ have gone from neophyte politicians to national prominence.
Republicans expelled Pearson and Rep. Justin Jones last week over their role in a gun control protest.