Ex-Nashville mayor who used taxpayer dollars to carry on affair launches bid to unseat House Republican
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Fox News ^
| 12/07/23 | Danielle Wallace
Former Democratic Nashville Mayor Megan Barry on Wednesday announced a U.S. House bid to unseat Rep. Mark Green, R-Tenn., seeking a political comeback more than five years after she faced now-dismissed criminal charges linked to her having an extramarital affair with her city-employed bodyguard. In
her announcement video, she cited several reasons for trying to return to elected office: a spate of mass shootings at schools, including earlier this year at a Nashville Christian elementary school, which was carried out by a transgender activist and former student; Tennessee's abortion ban; the closure of rural hospitals; and the opioid epidemic. "Today,...
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BREAKING: Nashville mayor launches investigation into leak of trans Nashville shooter's manifesto
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Post Millennial ^
| Nov 6, 2023 | Hannah Nightingale
"I have directed Wally Dietz, Metro’s Law Director, to initiate an investigation into how these images could have been released." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Following the leak of the transgender Nashville shooter’s alleged manifesto on Monday morning, Mayor Freddie O’Connell said that the city has launched an investigation into how the images of the writings
were released. "I have directed Wally Dietz, Metro’s Law Director, to initiate an investigation into how these images could have been released. That investigation may involve local, state, and federal authorities. I am deeply concerned with the safety, security, and well-being of the Covenant families and all Nashvillians...
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Nashville mayoral race to be decided in runoff election
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wkrn ^
| 08/04/2023
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Nashville is headed to a runoff in the mayor’s race as no candidate received the needed 50% of the vote to win. Freddie
O’Connell and Alice Rolli finished with the most votes. Coming in third and just missing the runoff was Matt Wiltshire. According to Davidson County Elections Administrator Jeff Roberts, the runoff election would take place Sept. 14, along with the special general election for TN House District 51.
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Rolli could play the Republican spoiler in Nashville mayor's race (election Thursday!)
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Axios Nashville ^
| 7/31/23 | Nate Rau
As the Nashville mayor's race hurtles toward Election Day on Thursday, there's increasing concern among the city's Democratic establishment and some business leaders that Republican Alice Rolli will qualify for the runoff election. A
slate of recent polling shows Rolli either in second place or close to it. It's a razor-thin margin between three candidates for second place, polls say. Only the top two candidates advance to the runoff, set for Sept. 14. State of play: Nashville voters are reliably Democratic, but with the liberal vote splintered, Rolli has an opening to consolidate enough conservative support to leapfrog the field....
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Nashville mayor says ‘cult of the gun’ should not be celebrated
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The Hill ^
| 03/28/2023 | JULIA SHAPERO
Nashville Mayor John Cooper (D) said on Tuesday that the “cult of the gun” should not be celebrated, after a shooting left three children and three staff members dead at a local elementary school. “Guns
lead to tragedies,” Cooper told the TODAY Show. “Whatever your political feelings are, we should not be celebrating the cult of the gun. A former student of The Covenant School, a private Christian school in Nashville, Tenn., shot and killed six people on Monday before being killed by police. The shooter, 28-year-old Audrey Elizabeth Hale, was armed with two assault-style weapons and a handgun. “The...
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The HIll/AP: Far-right mayor wins GOP primary for Nashville US House seat
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The Hill ^
| 08/05/22 8:20 AM ET | BY ASSOCIATED PRESS | JONATHAN MATTISE AND KIMBERLEE KRUESI -
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Andy Ogles, a far-right county mayor, won Tennessee’s crowded Republican primary on Thursday in a reconfigured congressional district in left-leaning Nashville that the party is hoping to flip in November. In a warning ahead of the general election, he said, “Liberals, we’re coming for you.” Ogles,
the Maury County mayor and onetime leader of the Koch-backed Americans for Prosperity’s state chapter, emerged among nine candidates after a hard-fought primary for the state’s 5th Congressional District. The seat drew heavy interest from Republicans after GOP state lawmakers carved Nashville into three districts, leading incumbent Democratic Rep. Jim...
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Democrat Mayor of Nashville caught hiding coronavirus case data to justify shutdowns
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KUSI ^
| September 17, 2020
The bars and restaurants in Nashville, Tennessee have been open with limited capacity after being forced to closed down for two months from March to May amid the coronavirus pandemic. San
Diego County Health Officials, Dr. Wilma Wooten and Supervisor Nathan Fletcher, have been telling San Diego if we open bars and restaurants at full capacity, or for indoor dining, our cases will skyrocket. But, in Nashville, that is not the case. In early August, Dr. Wooten went as far to say as San Diego County was seeing an increase and cases because people were “eating at tables with no...
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Reason #200 why the lockdown is a scam: Democrat Mayor of Nashville caught hiding coronavirus case data to justify shutdowns
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wordpress ^
| September 18, 2020 | Dan from Squirrel Hill
Reason #200 why the lockdown is a scam: Democrat Mayor of Nashville caught hiding coronavirus case data to justify shutdowns You can read my complete list of reasons why the lockdown is a scam at Here are 200 reasons why I’m against the COVID-19 lockdownsHere is reason #200, which I just added
to the list:200) Democrat Mayor of Nashville caught hiding coronavirus case data to justify shutdownshttps://www.kusi.com/democrat-m Mayor of Nashville caught hiding coronavirus case data to justify shutdownsSeptember 17, 2020NASHVILLE (KUSI) – The bars and restaurants in Nashville, Tennessee have been open with limited capacity after being forced to closed down...
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COVID Data Manipulation is in no way Unique to the Nashville Mayor
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DB Daily Update ^
| David Blackmon
Trust me, this has happened all over the country. – Emails made public yesterday reveal that Democrat Nashville Mayor John Cooper and his staff intentionally withheld information related to the number of bar-related China Virus infections in his city because the numbers were too low. From
a story at the New York Post: The mayor of Nashville and his health department have been accused of withholding data about the low number of COVID-19 cases linked to bars and restaurants in the city — all while placing strict restrictions on the venues. Internal emails published by FOX-affiliate WZTV purportedly show top...
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Email Records Show Democrat Nashville Mayor Hid COVID-19 Data To Intentionally Inflict Economic Hardship on Bars and Restaurants…
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conservative treehouse ^
| 09/17/2020 | sundance
While the background story of data manipulation to intentionally inflict economic damage is stunning, the severity of the position of Nashville Democrat Mayor John Cooper is actually not a surprise. It
must be remembered this is the same Nashville Mayor who created COVID-19 internment camps to forcibly detain people in a quarantine camp at a fairground. When one person jumped the fence to escape the police hunted him down and Nashville authorities charged him with “escaping a penal institution.” COVID-19 was criminalized. Two months after the internment camp incident a non-domiciled Nashville citizen named Joseph Bryant (61) was arrested for...
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COVID-19 Emails From Nashville Mayor’s Office Shows That They Conspired With The Health Department To Hide Actual COVID-19 Numbers From The City Because The Numbers Were Low
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Right Journalism ^
| 09.17.2020 | Natalie Dagenhardt
Mayor John Cooper has requested from Gov. Bill Lee an additional $82.6 million in COVID-19 relief to help aid Nashville’s tourism industry, music venues, small-businesses and to help expand the city’s social resources. In
a letter last week outlining the city’s needs as Nashville continues to be rocked by the ongoing pandemic, Cooper reminds Lee the state’s economic recovery begins in Nashville — “right now.” The Nashville Convention and Visitors Corp. last month estimated Nashville businesses have so far lost $2.45 billion in visitor spending due to COVID-19 and are losing more than $100 million per week as the pandemic...
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COVID-19 emails from Nashville mayor's office show disturbing revelation
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Fox17 Nashville ^
The discussion involves the low number of coronavirus cases emerging from bars and restaurants and how to handle that.and most disturbingly how to keep it from the public. On
June 30th, contact tracing was giving a small view of coronavirus clusters. Construction and nursing homes causing problems more than a thousand cases traced to each category, but bars and restaurants reported just 22 cases. Leslie Waller from the health department asks “This isn’t going to be publicly released, right? Just info for Mayor’s Office? “Correct, not for public consumption.” Writes senior advisor Benjamin Eagles
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Nashville Mayor Proposes 32% property tax increase
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Reaking 911 ^
| 04/28/2020 | N/A
Nashville Mayor Cooper today filed the city’s recommended operating budget for fiscal year 2021 with the Metro Council. Metro Finance estimates that the city will experience a $470 million revenue decline over a 16-month time frame due to the impact of COVID-19 and the March tornado. The
decline in revenue during Q4 of fiscal year 2020 required Metro to cut expenditures and spend down remaining fund balances, leaving Metro with only $12 million of fund balances at the end of FY20.
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Nashville's Next Mayor May Be a Black Conservative Woman
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RCP ^
| 30 July 2019 | Roger Simon
The last time Nashville’s mayor’s office made national news - a scant seventeen months ago - then mayor Megan Barry resigned after pleading guilty to felony theft relating to an extramarital affair she had with the police officer in charge of her security. This
time it’s for a better reason. After David Briley served as interim mayor, a full-term election is now in progress. And that election is being shaken up by Carol Swain, a woman who is - of all things in traditionally Democratic Nashville, a blue stronghold in a red state - a no-holds-barred black, Christian Republican conservative....
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Report: Rising Democratic Star Megan Barry to Resign as Mayor of Nashville Due to Sex Scanda
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breitbart.com ^
| 3/6/2018 | Michael Patrick Leahy
Rising Democratic star Megan Barry is expected to resign as Mayor of Nashville at a hastily scheduled press conference that will be held at Nashville City Hall at 10 a.m. central on Tuesday, according to The Tennessean and other local media outlets. Barry
admitted on January 31 that she had a two-year-long affair with her bodyguard, former Metro Nashville Police Department Sgt. Rob Forrest, as Breitbart News reported:
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry Expected To Resign
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https :// www . newschannel5 . com / news / newschannel - 5 - investigates / city - hall - scandal / nashville - mayor - megan - barry - expected - to - resign ^
| 3/6/18 | Phil Williams
NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Nashville Mayor Megan Barry is expected to resign later this morning, sources tell NewsChannel 5. It
follows several days of negotiations between Barry's legal team and District Attorney Glenn Funk. Those negotiations had apparently focused on whether Funk would agree not to prosecute Barry in exchange for her resignation.
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Security Video Shows [Nashville] Mayor, Bodyguard During Early-Morning Cemetery Visits [ed]
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News Channel 5 ^
| February 22, 2018 | Phil Williams
Mayor Megan Barry found time alone with her police bodyguard during early morning visits to the Nashville City Cemetery, security video uncovered by NewsChannel 5 Investigates shows. And
in every case, taxpayers were paying Sgt. Rob Forrest to be there, payroll records show. At the time, Forrest was having an affair with Barry.
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Nashville mayor scandal: Nude photos found in emails
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MSN/ CNN ^
| February 22, 2018
Newly discovered nude cell phone photos may be evidence Nashville's mayor and her former security chief were having an affair while he was being paid to be her bodyguard, authorities say in court documents disclosed Thursday. In filing affidavits for search warrants, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says Rob Forrest used a
work phone to take two photos while on duty. Investigators say evidence points to the possibility that crimes -- official misconduct and theft of property -- occurred.
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TBI to Investigate Liberal Nashville Mayor Megan Berry after affair announced
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WSMV Channel 4 website ^
| 2/1/2018 | WSMV
NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) - District Attorney General Glenn Funk has asked the TBI to investigate whether Nashville Mayor Megan Barry or others violated any criminal law, according to a statement from the D.A.’s office.Funk has asked TBI Director Mark Gwyn to investigate whether Barry and/or others, including Sgt. Rob Forrest, violated any
criminal law including misappropriation of public funds and official misconduct. On Thursday afternoon, Barry released a statement regarding the TBI investigation: “Earlier this morning, I spoke with General Funk and he informed me that he would be requesting a TBI investigation that could answer questions of legality in...
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Nashville Mayor Megan Barry admits affair with former head of security
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clarksvillenow.com ^
ClarksvilleNOW / Local / News / Nashville Mayor Megan Barry admits affair with former head of security Nashville Mayor Megan Barry admits affair with former head of security /Courtesy: WKRN 3 hours ago by ClarksvilleNow.com Facebook Twitter LinkedIn NASHVILLE, Tenn. (CLARKSVILLENOW) – Mayor Megan Barry admitted Wednesday to having an extramarital affair
with her former head of security, according to WKRN News 2. In a prepared statement, Barry writes, “I accept full responsibility for the pain I have caused my family and his.” The mayor goes on to apologize to her husband Bruce, “who has stood by me in my...
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