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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Dec 6, 2023

Megan Barry, the former mayor of Nashville, officially launched a campaign today to unseat U.S. Rep. Mark Green, a Republican from Clarksville who represents the 7th Congressional District. WKRN reports that Barry cited dysfunction in Congress, worsening opioid crisis, rise in gun violence and closure of rural hospitals as reasons for her run. Barry served as the first female mayor of Nashville from 2015-2018, when she resigned from office following news of an affair with a member of her security detail. She pleaded guilty to felony theft of property over $10,000 for using taxpayer funds to conduct the affair and received three years of unsupervised probation and had to pay $11,000 in restitution.