TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Kate Prince on Oct 27, 2021

Tennessee state Sen. Brian Kelsey, R-Germantown, today announced he will temporarily resign as chair of the Senate Education Committee, the Tennessean reports. His announcement comes after he was charged Monday with violating several campaign finance laws as part of a conspiracy to benefit his failed 2016 campaign for Congress. Kelsey, alongside the owner of Nashville social club The Standard, stand accused of moving “soft money” from Kelsey’s state Senate campaign committee to his federal campaign. Kelsey has called the indictment a “political witch hunt.”