Full write-up of Odessa Kelly's run with background on Rep. Jim Cooper here: huffpost.com/entry/odessa-k…
https://twitter.com/danielmarans/status/1379026030447316993
For all those noting that the Twitter handle is nonexistent, here's evidence that it used to be Kelly's. 
Facts on Tennessee's 5th:
--Nashville and suburbs
--It went 60-37% for Biden
--Last primary challenge to Cooper got 40%
--Black pop. = 24% of district. Total Black, Latino, Asian = 37%.
--Cooper uncontested in '20 general, but primary challenger got 40%.
--Nashville and suburbs
--It went 60-37% for Biden
--Last primary challenge to Cooper got 40%
--Black pop. = 24% of district. Total Black, Latino, Asian = 37%.
--Cooper uncontested in '20 general, but primary challenger got 40%.
Kelly heads @standupnash, which brokered a massive community benefits agreement for construction of a new major-league soccer stadium: tennessean.com/story/news/201…
Jim Cooper does not have some of the baggage of Henry Cuellar on guns and abortion rights, or of Dan Lipinski on immigration.
Instead, he has a record as a hard-core fiscal hawk. He voted down the Obama stimulus and was a major Grand Bargain to cut Social Security guy.
Instead, he has a record as a hard-core fiscal hawk. He voted down the Obama stimulus and was a major Grand Bargain to cut Social Security guy.
Cooper served from 1983-1995. He lost to Fred Thompson in a 1994 bid to fill Al Gore's Senate seat. (A republican wave year.) nytimes.com/1994/11/15/us/…
He was elected to the House again in 2002 and has been serving there since then as a high-ranking member of the Blue Dogs.
He was elected to the House again in 2002 and has been serving there since then as a high-ranking member of the Blue Dogs.
We don't know how Cooper would have voted on the Iraq War which came up for a vote in 2002.
He did vote against the 1994 crime bill (not sure what his reasons were): govtrack.us/congress/votes…
He did vote against the 1994 crime bill (not sure what his reasons were): govtrack.us/congress/votes…
Mainly though, Cooper is a fiscal hawk.
During the Clinton-care fight, while John Conyers was pushing single payer, Cooper pushed for "Clinton lite" -- a plan with fewer obligations on employers to plug holes in coverage. nytimes.com/2008/02/05/opi…
archives.cjr.org/campaign_desk/…
During the Clinton-care fight, while John Conyers was pushing single payer, Cooper pushed for "Clinton lite" -- a plan with fewer obligations on employers to plug holes in coverage. nytimes.com/2008/02/05/opi…
archives.cjr.org/campaign_desk/…
cc: @OdessaKellyTN -- apologies for messing up the Twitter handle.
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