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McGrath, who lost to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in Kentucky, raised $90 million through Oct. 14, according to finance filings. Thus far, McGrath has received 37.8% of the vote. In Tennessee, with far less money, Bradshaw had received 35.1% of the vote.
With U.S. West plagued by raging wildfires and scientists warning of what the future holds on a rapidly heating planet, more than 460 advocacy groups on Friday urged President Joe Biden to choose a climate champion for a key federal energy post—and gave him three potential candidates
Bradshaw said she is a volunteer project director for Defense Depot Memphis, Concerned Citizens Committee. She is one of the 11 founding members of Youth Terminating Pollution. As a project director, Bradshaw said she fights for her childhood community, raises awareness and fights for justice for contamination from the Memphis Defense Depot Superfund site. The superfund site is a chemical and biological warfare landfill.
Since primary election night and her decisive victory over frontrunner James Mackler of Nashville, Bradshaw says she has raised 10 times more than what she spent on the primary campaign. That's $270,000 compared to $24,000.
Rhodes College political science professor Michael Nelson was among those who thought Mackler would win with ease. After all, he was set to run for the Senate two years ago before former Gov. Phil Bredesen stepped in, and he had the money and the endorsement of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee.
Tennessee has one of the most restrictive voter ID laws in the country and has been consistently ranked as having one of the lowest voter turnout rates nationally...Parker noted that national investment in organizing Tennessee's electorate has been inconsistent.
Bradshaw, who won Thursday's Democratic primary election over a well-funded opponent in the contest to replace Republican U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, grew up in a predominantly Black neighborhood near an Army depot where waste disposal contaminated soil and groundwater. As residents got sick and died, her mother Doris and father Kenneth started the Defense Depot Memphis Concerned Citizen Committee, a group of teachers, business owners and professionals concerned about emerging health problems.
A coalition of environmental justice groups is asking the Biden administration to nominate one of three environmental justice activists to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, including Marquita Bradshaw of Memphis.
Bradshaw's family members are no strangers to politics (though this is her first run for office) — her uncle is state Rep. John DeBerry (D-Memphis), and her mother Doris has been fighting for environmental justice in Memphis for decades. Marquita Bradshaw was by her parents' side for much of the fight against a government-owned Superfund site in Memphis.
Ms. Bradshaw finished ahead of four opponents, including James Mackler, an Army veteran backed by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee who, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission, had raised more than $2 million. The most recent filings available showed that Ms. Bradshaw's campaign had raised only $8,400 by the end of March.
Mackler's primary loss is the first for a DSCC-backed candidate since 2010, when Cal Cunningham lost a Democratic Senate primary in North Carolina...The DSCC's endorsed candidates have been overwhelmingly successful in their primaries so far this election cycle. Until Mackler's defeat, the party had a perfect primary streak
Marquita Bradshaw, our Tennessee Chapter Environmental Justice Chair - the need to rid ourselves of racism in the fabric of America to achieve climate justice.
The Democratic primary fielded five candidates, and on Thursday, Sierra Club organizer Marquita Bradshaw of Memphis won the race...She proved she could win her primary as an underdog. She raised only $8,420 in her election compared with $2.1 million raised by attorney and combat veteran James Mackler.
The Memphis Democrat faced four challengers: Robin Kimbrough, James Mackler, Gary Davis and Mark Pickrell. Bradshaw won the race with 35.5% of the vote. Kimbrough had 26.6% and Mackler had 23.8%. Davis and Pickrell trailed with each winning less than 10% of the vote.
In a letter to Biden, 466 groups identified three potential candidates to replace Neil Chatterjee...Potential replacements floated in the letter include former Georgia Public Service Commission candidate Daniel Blackman; former Tennessee Democratic Senate candidate Marquita Bradshaw; and Clean Energy for Biden national co-chair Nidi Thakar.
..we are leading with environmental justice principles with the voices of the people who are experiencing the pain. It's value and is put in this platform. By that way, we are being inclusive and it's for everybody because we want America to be for all, not just for some people.
The race to succeed retiring U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander in November will feature a matchup between a Republican candidate endorsed by President Donald Trump and a Black activist who pulled off an astonishing upset victory over the Democratic establishment's choice — with a campaign war chest of less than $10,000.
The progressive's win over a field of Democrats, including establishment choice James Mackler, has drawn national attention in a Senate race where the focus had been on a contentious GOP primary featuring Hagerty and Nashville doctor Manny Sethi. Bradshaw is the first Black woman nominated for statewide office by either major political party in Tennessee.
Bradshaw, who won Thursday's Democratic primary election over a well-funded opponent in the contest to replace Republican U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, grew up in a predominantly Black neighborhood near an Army depot where waste disposal contaminated soil and groundwater. As residents got sick and died, her mother Doris and father Kenneth started the Defense Depot Memphis Concerned Citizen Committee, a group of teachers, business owners and professionals concerned about emerging health problems.
McGrath, who lost to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in Kentucky, raised $90 million through Oct. 14, according to finance filings. Thus far, McGrath has received 37.8% of the vote. In Tennessee, with far less money, Bradshaw had received 35.1% of the vote.
Bradshaw campaigned on supporting universal background checks (she's a Moms Demand mom), Medicare For All, the Green New Deal, funding education as well as we fund our military, a living wage, overturning Citizens United, and keeping DACA. She also supports community policing and restorative justice.
