GOP Competition for Tennessee 8th District Seat

Published: July 16, 2010, 4 a.m.

For more than a century, a Democrat has gone to Washington representing the farm towns and suburbs stretching from Dickson, west to the Mississippi River. Since 1989, Rep. John Tanner has held the 8th Congressional District seat. But he's retiring, and the GOP sees opportunity. Leading the 8th district's first competitive Republican primary in decades are a pair of physicians and a family farmer. WPLN's Blake Farmer reports.