{"id":90680,"date":"2022-01-26T16:21:32","date_gmt":"2022-01-26T16:21:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=90680"},"modified":"2022-01-26T16:21:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-26T16:21:35","slug":"retiring-rep-jim-cooper-says-republicans-savaged-nashville","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=90680","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Retiring Rep. Jim Cooper says Republicans &#8220;savaged Nashville&#8221;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/local\/nashville\/2022\/01\/26\/rep-jim-cooper-to-retire-tennessee-fifth-district\" target=\"_blank\">Axios:<\/a> &#8220;U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, who sat at the mountaintop of Nashville Democratic politics for decades and mentored a generation of civic leaders,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/link.axios.com\/click\/26486871.56\/aHR0cHM6Ly90d2l0dGVyLmNvbS9yZXBqaW1jb29wZXIvc3RhdHVzLzE0ODYwNTg2MjU3NzI3OTM4NjQ_cz0yMCZ1dG1fc291cmNlPW5ld3NsZXR0ZXImdXRtX21lZGl1bT1lbWFpbCZ1dG1fY2FtcGFpZ249c2VuZHRvX2xvY2FsbmV3c2xldHRlcnRlc3Qmc3RyZWFtPXRvcA\/613b89d6ca76e632c69b8c4bBc964479d\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a>\u00a0his retirement Tuesday after a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/link.axios.com\/click\/26486871.56\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYXhpb3MuY29tL2xvY2FsL25hc2h2aWxsZS8yMDIyLzAxLzE5L3JlZGlzdHJpY3RpbmctY291bGQtbGVhZC10by1uZXctY29uZ3Jlc3Npb25hbC1jYW5kaWRhdGVzP3V0bV9zb3VyY2U9bmV3c2xldHRlciZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1zZW5kdG9fbG9jYWxuZXdzbGV0dGVydGVzdCZzdHJlYW09dG9w\/613b89d6ca76e632c69b8c4bB76eaccb0\" target=\"_blank\">bruising redistricting battle<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why it matters:&nbsp;<\/strong>The General Assembly&#8217;s plan to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/link.axios.com\/click\/26486871.56\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuYXhpb3MuY29tL2xvY2FsL25hc2h2aWxsZS8yMDIyLzAxLzEzL2JsdWUtbmFzaHZpbGxlLXRvLWJlLXNwbGl0LWludG8tdGhyZWUtcmVkLWNvbmdyZXNzaW9uYWwtZGlzdHJpY3RzP3V0bV9zb3VyY2U9bmV3c2xldHRlciZ1dG1fbWVkaXVtPWVtYWlsJnV0bV9jYW1wYWlnbj1zZW5kdG9fbG9jYWxuZXdzbGV0dGVydGVzdCZzdHJlYW09dG9w\/613b89d6ca76e632c69b8c4bBb6006f7f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">split Nashville<\/a>&nbsp;among three congressional districts would have made him a re-election underdog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>His retirement at the end of his current term, along with redistricting, plunges Nashville politics into a state of upheaval.<\/li><li>As the city faced disasters and meteoric growth, Cooper, 67, was a steady standard bearer. The Cooper family \u2014 including his brother, Nashville Mayor John Cooper \u2014 is a local dynasty.<\/li><li>Cooper is the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/link.axios.com\/click\/26486871.56\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cud2FzaGluZ3RvbnBvc3QuY29tL3BvbGl0aWNzLzIwMjIvMDEvMjUvcmVwLWppbS1jb29wZXItYW5ub3VuY2VzLWhlLXdpbGwtbm90LXJ1bi1yZWVsZWN0aW9uLXNheWluZy1oaXMtbmFzaHZpbGxlLWRpc3RyaWN0LWhhcy1iZWVuLWRpc21lbWJlcmVkLWdvcC1nZXJyeW1hbmRlci8_dXRtX3NvdXJjZT1uZXdzbGV0dGVyJnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPXNlbmR0b19sb2NhbG5ld3NsZXR0ZXJ0ZXN0JnN0cmVhbT10b3A\/613b89d6ca76e632c69b8c4bB493afb04\" target=\"_blank\">29th Democratic House incumbent<\/a>\u00a0to announce retirement in the run-up to the midterms.&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Axios: &#8220;U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper, who sat at the mountaintop of Nashville Democratic politics for decades and mentored a generation of civic leaders,\u00a0announced\u00a0his retirement Tuesday after a\u00a0bruising redistricting battle. Why it matters:&nbsp;The General Assembly&#8217;s plan to&nbsp;split Nashville&nbsp;among three congressional districts would have made him a re-election underdog. His retirement at the end of his current&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90683,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90680\/revisions\/90683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}