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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAftyn Behn (TN Congressional special election, Dec.2) TV ad
https://nashvillebanner.com/2025/11/12/aftyn-behn-district-7-special-election-ad/
...."Transcript:
Aftyn Behn: Im Aftyn Behn. We all know the system is rigged in Washington.
Heres how it works: Politicians make it easy for their rich donors. Tax cuts for billionaires, and burying the Epstein files.
While hardworking Tennesseans get a rough ride by cutting healthcare for Tennessee families, doubling health insurance premiums and tariffs that hurt our economy.
Im Aftyn Behn, and I approve this message. Vote early to shake up Washington.
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Demsrule86
(71,416 posts)Democrats and she needs them. I loved the commercial though.
Tanuki
(16,172 posts)as she is in a district that was brutally gerrymandered to disenfranchise Nashville's heavily Democratic majority a few years ago.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2022/jan/25/nashville-tennessee-gerrymandering-congress-republicans
"Republican lawmakers in Tennessee gave final approval on Monday to an aggressive plan to split Nashville, a Democratic bastion, in a deeply Republican state, into several congressional districts as part of an effort to tilt the states congressional map in their favor. The plan is now waiting for approval from Governor Bill Lee, who is likely to sign it.
Nashville currently sits in the states fifth congressional district, represented by Jim Cooper, a Democrat who has held the seat for nearly 20 years. Its a solid Democratic district Joe Biden carried it by nearly 24 points in 2020 but on Tuesday, Cooper announced he was retiring from Congress.
Despite my strength at the polls, I could not stop the general assembly from dismembering Nashville. No one tried harder to keep our city whole, he said in a statement. I explored every possible way, including lawsuits, to stop the gerrymandering and to win one of the three new congressional districts that now divide Nashville. Theres no way, at least for me in this election cycle, but there may be a path for other worthy candidates.
The new districts crack the concentration of Democratic voters in Nashville and cram them into three districts that stretch across the state and are filled with reliable Republican voters. Donald Trump would have easily carried all three of the proposed districts in 2020. The plan is one of the clearest, and most brazen, efforts to dismantle a Democratic district to benefit Republicans.".... (more)
Demsrule86
(71,416 posts)On your reply., I would like to donate. Thanks for the information. I hope it works. I hate what gerrymandering does.