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Report: Justices Facing Retention Spending Little on Campaign

Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jul 25, 2016

Election finance records show that the three Tennessee Supreme Court justices facing retention election on Aug. 4 have all set up campaign accounts and raised modest amounts of money but have spent almost nothing, Humphrey on the Hill reports. This is a striking contrast from two years ago, when three incumbent justices on the ballot raised and spent more than $1.1 million, with an additional $345,000 spent on their behalf by an outside group. And unlike 2014, there is no visible organized anti-incumbent campaign against justices Jeffrey Bivins, Holly Kirby and Roger Page.