(Nashville is already a liberal shithole these days but "AOC from
Tennessee" is an especially bad case of a worthless, self-important
person.)

From: https://shorturl.at/5fiIP (dailycaller.com)

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Republicans Hold On To House Seat In Tennessee

Mariane Angela News Reporter
December 02, 2025 9:56 PM ET

Republican Tennessee congressional candidate Matt Van Epps won the
special election Tuesday for Tennessee's 7th Congressional District,
securing 81,017 votes (52.4%) over Democratic Tennessee congressional
candidate Aftyn Behn, who received 71,912 votes (46.5%), with 93% of
votes in, according to The New York Post.

Former Republican Tennessee Rep. Mark Green resigned in July,
stepping down fewer than six months into his fourth term. The 7th
District - which President Donald Trump carried by 20 points in 2024
- drew millions of dollars from both of the two major political
parties in the run-up to Tuesday's vote, despite Republicans
historically dominating the area. Van Epps ultimately kept the seat
in GOP hands.

Van Epps is a West Point graduate and former Army helicopter pilot
who completed multiple overseas deployments, including in Iraq and
Afghanistan. He later served in the Tennessee Army National Guard,
eventually rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel.

Van Epps briefly led the Tennessee Department of General Services
after being appointed commissioner in late 2024 before resigning to
run for Congress. He won the crowded Republican special primary in
October with the help of a late endorsement from Trump.

Behn is a progressive Tennessee state lawmaker and longtime activist
who built her political profile through protests and direct-action
campaigns at the state Capitol. She has repeatedly taken combative
stances against Tennessee's Republican leadership, including a
confrontation in 2019 that led to her removal - by force - from
Republican Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee's office. In another incident, she
was also removed from the House chamber.

Behn aligned herself with far-left positions on issues like abortion
access, transgender policies and policing. She frequently promoted
views that placed her well outside of Tennessee's political
mainstream. In earlier public statements and podcast appearances, she
criticized Nashville, called Tennessee a "racist state," and urged
radical approaches to social policy.

"I hate the city, I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns,
I hate country music, I hate all of the things that make Nashville
apparently an `it' city to the rest of the country. But I hate it,"
Behn said on the "Year old GRITS" podcast in February 2020.
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"I hate the city, I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns,
I hate country music, I hate all of the things that make Nashville
apparently an `it' city to the rest of the country. But I hate it,"
Behn said on the "Year old GRITS" podcast in February 2020.

Not something you want to be saying in an area that your political future depends on.

Mike

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Mike Powell wrote to SEAN DENNIS <=-

Not something you want to be saying in an area that your political
future depends on.

Yet 50,000+ people voted for that idiot. Rather showing about
Nashville, isn't it?

If someone like that showed up here in East Tennessee like that, she'd
be run out of town.

-- Sean

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Sean Dennis wrote to All <=-

(Nashville is already a liberal shithole these days but "AOC from Tennessee" is an especially bad case of a worthless, self-important person.)

From: https://shorturl.at/5fiIP (dailycaller.com)

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Republicans Hold On To House Seat In Tennessee

Mariane Angela News Reporter
December 02, 2025 9:56 PM ET

Republican Tennessee congressional candidate Matt Van Epps won the
special election Tuesday for Tennessee's 7th Congressional District,
securing 81,017 votes (52.4%) over Democratic Tennessee
congressional
candidate Aftyn Behn, who received 71,912 votes (46.5%), with 93% of
votes in, according to The New York Post.

I have NOT watched as much this last time as I usually do, but she was
in the House already... Was that finishing a term or something?

Either way, yeah - she's VERY left... Pro abortion, pro trans, etc.

If you're interested, Tennessee Hollar is a leftist podcast too. I
listen to it sometimes, and she's been on there several times.



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Mike Powell wrote to SEAN DENNIS <=-

"I hate the city, I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns,
I hate country music, I hate all of the things that make Nashville
apparently an `it' city to the rest of the country. But I hate it,"
Behn said on the "Year old GRITS" podcast in February 2020.

Not something you want to be saying in an area that your political
future depends on.

And from what I just read, Nashville is the ONLY place she won!

I live in Tennessee - about 2-1/2 hours from Nashville. I'm a (self
published) singer songwriter. I used to go play open mics and other
songwriter stuff, but it's NOT the town it used to be... I don't
hate it, like she does, but I haven't lost anything there either.
:-)



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Hello Jimmy,

03 Dec 25 22:10, you wrote to me:

Either way, yeah - she's VERY left... Pro abortion, pro trans, etc.

That's why she's called the "AOC of Tennessee" and it's not in a flattering way.

If you're interested, Tennessee Hollar is a leftist podcast too. I
listen to it sometimes, and she's been on there several times.

I hear enough leftest crap at the VA for a lifetime. Plus my cousins in Commiefornia are all libtards too. They won't talk to me. LOL

-- Sean

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Hello Jimmy,

03 Dec 25 22:10, you wrote to Mike Powell:

And from what I just read, Nashville is the ONLY place she won!

She lost this time aroundm, thankfully.

I live in Tennessee - about 2-1/2 hours from Nashville. I'm a (self published) singer songwriter. I used to go play open mics and other songwriter stuff, but it's NOT the town it used to be... I don't
hate it, like she does, but I haven't lost anything there either.
:-)

So you've heard of The Down Home here in Johnson City?

https://www.thedownhome.com/

-- Sean

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