It was an important moment for the 14 commissioners who had campaigned under the banner of the Sumner County Constitutional Republicans. The group had waged a political war on fellow Republicans they viewed as insufficiently conservative in this fast-growing region north of Nashville during a bitter primary a few months before.
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Sumner County borders Macon County on the west. The northern part of the county already was conservative, but the southern part where most of the population and the county seat is has always struck me as being liberal as hell. But then again, Gallatin is a bedroom community of Nashville.
Gallatin is the only place I was ever given a hard time by ordinary citizens for not wearing a mask during the covid farce and when they locked that town down during that time, the citizens dutifully obeyed their masters. It was funny, I'd take Lisa to a doctor's appointment in Gallatin, leaving Macon County where people were going about their daily lives like nothing was happening, then driving down to Gallatin and finding the streets deserted and shops closed.
