U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn is currently on a swing through Jackson and West Tennessee.
She arrived in Jackson on Sunday, where she dropped by the downtown studios of WNWS-FM 101.5/SuperTalk 93.1 to conduct a live interview on the Fox News Channel’s “The Next Revolution with Steve Hilton.”
Monday’s travel schedule included a visit to Jackson City Hall, where Blackburn hosted the Madison County installment of her annual 95-county tour of the Volunteer State.
Among the civic leaders at Monday’s meeting were Madison County mayor AJ Massey, Jackson mayor Scott Conger, District Attorney Jody Pickens, Jackson Police Department chief Thom Corley, West Tennessee Healthcare CEO James Ross, Tennessee State Rep. Chris Todd, and Tennessee Supreme Court Justice Roger Page.
As mass shootings surge in 2023 (22 total reported thus far), during the multi-topic chat Chief Corley shared that JPD recently confiscated an AR-15 style rifle from an 11-year-old.
Blackburn said her Safe Schools Act could be a tool to lower violence and protect America’s youth.
“I have worked on the [Safe Schools Act] for five years, and there is a need for parental engagement and parental responsibility,” Blackburn said. “We want to make certain that children are kept in school and that they have the adult guidance that they need.”
She racked up the miles traveling West Tennessee’s highways during her tour, including stops in Carroll and Hardeman County.
“We are out around the state and into the counties,” Blackburn said. “Law enforcement is concerned about fentanyl and drugs. You are always going to hear about the need for infrastructure dollars. West Tennessee is seeing so much growth, and health care is such a concern here.”
Blackburn wraps her busy Monday as the featured speaker at the Madison County Republican Party’s Reagan Day fundraiser at Union University.
After a four-day “State Work Period” break from Washington, the Senate is set to reconvene Tuesday. Then, it’s back to Williamson County for the weekend, where a big day awaits the 70-year-old mother of two on Sunday.
“Mother’s Day is that one day of the year where my husband [Chuck], son, and son-in-law – they take care of Sunday lunch. They treat us, and it is a wonderful, wonderful day.”
(PHOTO: Sen. Marsha Blackburn is interviewed on the Fox News Channel from the SuperTalk 93.1 FM studio in downtown Jackson.)
