State Rep. Gloria Johnson is starting a campaign to take on GOP Sen. Marsha Blackburn in the heavily Republican state.
Rep. Gloria Johnson, D-Knoxville, holds a sign on the House floor after a special session of the state legislature on public safety adjourned on Aug. 29 in Nashville.Tennessee state Rep. Gloria Johnson, one of the three Democrats reprimanded earlier this year for leading a protest against gun violence on the state House floor, has launched a bid for Senate in her deep-red home state.
"We've got to do better, we can do better and Tennesseans deserve better. We have got to do something, and well, This is the something I decided to do," Johnson said about her Senate bid. She went onto criticize Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn, whom Johnson hopes to face if she can win a primary election next year, accusing her of standing in the way of progress.
"We need to make sure that every family has access to affordable health care, every kid has a great school in every district, it shouldn't matter where you live, everyone should have a great school. We need to raise wages so people earn a living wage and we need to increase our union involvement because that's what built the middle class," she added.
Johnson gained prominence in the state after she and two other colleagues took to the the state House floor with a bullhorn to criticize what they perceived as legislative inaction after a March mass shooting in Nashville.
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