GOP challenge planned to embattled Tennessee representative
FRANKLIN, Tenn. (AP) – A Franklin man is planning a Republican primary challenge to embattled state Rep. Jeremy Durham.
Retired Army Col. Sam Whitson tells The Tennessean newspaper that he has assembled a team for the planned challenge.
Whitson says the Williamson County district needs a representative with what he calls “character, courage and a total commitment to our county rather than any personal or future political ambition.”
Durham’s role as House majority whip is the subject of a GOP caucus meeting on Jan. 12 that follows revelations that prosecutors once recommended prescription fraud charges against him, that he wrote a character reference for a former youth pastor who pleaded guilty to child porn possession and statutory rape and that House Speaker Beth Harwell had the lawmaker spoken to about his behavior.
