Sanford: ‘We have met the autocrat. And he is the speaker of the TN House’
Otis Sanford
Otis Sanford is a political columnist, author and professor emeritus in Journalism and Strategic Media at the University of Memphis.
“We have met the persistent. And they are Tennessee voters.”
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