Political Roundup: Opening day filings, find your new districts, Congressman Jim Cooper on Memphis
Sen. Brian Kelsey, R-Germantown, seen here at a debate in Nashville, has two potential challengers in the August legislative primaries: Brandon Toney, a nurse practitioner who owns a small business in Collierville, and Peggy Larkin, a member of the Tennessee Republican Party’s executive committee. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey file)
Many of the incumbents on the August ballot showed up for the first day of the period to pull and file qualifying petitions to get on the ballot.
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