John – Today is election day in Tennessee, and BNC’s Odessa Kelly is on the ballot.
Odessa is running unopposed in the Democratic primary for TN-07, which means that today she will officially become the nominee.
Odessa’s general election opponent is Republican Rep. Mark Green, a man with a vile and well documented history of homophobia. Green has referred to transgender folks as “a disease” and has argued that Tennessee should revoke the right for same-sex couples to marry. He’s also described LGBTQIA+ acceptance as “tolerating immorality.” Defeating Mark Green and sending Odessa to be the first openly gay Black woman to serve in Congress would be such a clear and forceful rebuke of his bigotry that flipping the seat would almost be a bonus.
In less than 100 days we are going to make history by electing Odessa. Are you in? Pitch in now and split a contribution between Odessa and Brand New Congress. |
Just recently, Odessa’s opponent – a physician – voted AGAINST capping insulin prices and AGAINST the PACT Act to protect veterans suffering from exposure to toxic fumes from burn pits during their service.
Odessa is a career civil servant, organizer and activist, born and raised in Nashville who has been fighting for working people all her life. As a working class, gay Black woman and mother of two, Odessa has seen firsthand the ways in which the system fails working families and marginalized people – and she’s been on the front lines to change that.
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