Sanford: For Gov. Lee, landing a Ford assembly plant makes his reelection a cinch
Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee addresses those gathered at Shelby Farms Tuesday, Sept. 28, for the announcement of Ford’s West Tennessee manufacturing plant. (Ziggy Mack/Special to the Daily Memphian)
Otis Sanford
Otis Sanford is a political columnist, author and professor emeritus in Journalism and Strategic Media at the University of Memphis.
The man just brought a Ford assembly plant to the state with more jobs than anyone in this region could have imagined. How can his potential challengers, Republican or Democrat, top that?
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