Blackburn, Rose jockey for GOP nom for governor in front of apocalyptic Lincoln Day backdrop
U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn and U.S Rep. John Rose each spoke separately Friday, Feb. 27, to a group of 400 attending the Shelby County Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Day Gala at the FedEx Event Center at Shelby Farms Park. (Greg Campbell/Special to The Daily Memphian)
Local Republicans got what is likely to be the closest thing to a debate between two of the three top Republicans running for Tennessee governor.
U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn and U.S Rep. John Rose each spoke separately Friday, Feb. 27, to a group of 400 attending the Shelby County Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Day Gala at the FedEx Event Center at Shelby Farms Park.
Neither one mentioned the other by name.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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