Democrats tout plans to flip Tennessee House seats
Jesse Huseth, left, Justin Pearson, center, and Noah Nordstrom, right, take a photo together during a campaign gathering and fundraiser. (Brad Vest/Special to The Daily Memphian)
State Rep. Justin J. Pearson of Memphis has been a state legislator for less than two years.
Yet he’s already running in his sixth election, counting primaries and a pair of special elections following the death of state Rep. Barbara Cooper and then his return after other Tennessee House of Representatives legislators voted to oust him from his seat.
Pearson won the Aug. 1 Democratic primary in District 86 and faces independent challenger Jeff Johnston on the Nov. 5 general election ballot.
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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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