Tennessee has a Republican trifecta and a Republican triplex. The Republican Party controls the offices of governor, secretary of state, attorney general, and both chambers of the state legislature.
The legislature’s Republican supermajority left little room for debate, pushing through millions of dollars and sprawling policy changes in a special session that lasted just four days.
Kuykendall had managed Bob James’ nearly successful congressional campaign in 1962 and had been chairman of the Republican Party in Shelby County in 1963. Kuykendall had been methodically moving ...