Leaders
Supporting, Helpful and/or Open to the Proposal to Rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park
Jul 30, 2020
Master List of Supporters
Master List of Supporters
Please Rename Nathan Bedord Forrest State Park
LEADERSHIP SUPPORT Carol Abney | 2020 Candidate for TNGA House Rep HD38 | SUPPORTER
Raumesh Akbari | TNGA Senator D29 | SUPPORTER Bill Beck | TNGA House Rep HD51 | SUPPORTER Fabian Bedne | Nashville Metro Council Member Dist 31 | SUPPORTER Sam Bledsoe | 2020 Candidate for TNGA House Rep HD61 | SUPPORTER Richard Briggs | TNGA Senator D7 | OPEN-MINDED & HELPFUL Karen Camper | TNGA House Rep HD87 | SUPPORTER Jesse Chism | TNGA House Rep HD85 | SUPPORTER John Ray Clemmons | TNGA House Rep HD55 | SUPPORTER Jim Coley | TNGA House Rep HD97 | SUPPORTER Barbara Ward Cooper | TNGA House Rep HD86 | SUPPORTER Melissa Covington | 2019 Candidate for Nashville Metro Council (Dist 21) | SUPPORTER Michael Curcio | TNGA House Rep HD69 | HELPFUL Anthony Davis | Nashville Metro Council Member Dist 7 | SUPPORTER Vincent Dixie | TNGA House Rep HD54 | SUPPORTER Bill Dunn | TNGA House Rep HD16 | OPEN-MINDED Scott Kelley Ernest | Former White Nationalist Hate Group Leader | SUPPORTER Andrew Farmer | TNGA House Rep HD17 | OPEN-MINDED Bob Freeman | TNGA House Rep HD56 | SUPPORTER Meg Gorman | 2020 Candidate for US Rep in Congress from TN Dist 3 | SUPPORTER Yusuf Hakeem | TNGA House Rep HD28 | SUPPORTER G.A. Hardaway | TNGA House Rep HD93 | SUPPORTER Brenda Haywood | Nashville Metro Council Member Dist 3 | SUPPORTER Jason Hodges | TNGA House Rep HD67 | SUPPORTER Renee Hoyos | 2020 Candidate for US Rep in Congress from TN Dist 2 | SUPPORTER Darren Jernigan | TNGA House Rep HD60 | OPEN-MINDED Gloria Johnson | TNGA House Rep HD13 | SUPPORTER Mina Johnson | Nashville Metro Council Member Dist 23 | SUPPORTER Steve Johnson | Pastor | SUPPORTER Deanielle Jones | 2019 Candidate for Memphis City Council District 9 Position 2 | SUPPORTER Brian Kelsey | TNGA Senator D31 | OPEN-MINDED Sara Kyle | TNGA Senator D30 | SUPPORTER London Lamar | TNGA House Rep HD91 | SUPPORTER Harold M. Love, Jr. | TNGA House Rep HD58 | SUPPORTER James Mackler | 2020 Candidate for US Senate from Tennessee | SUPPORTER Aaron Marble | Pastor, Jefferson Street Missionary Baptist Church Nashville | SUPPORTER Holly McCall | Chair, Emerge Tennessee | SUPPORTER Montagne McDonald | Pastor | SUPPORTER Bob Mendes | Nashville Metro Council, At-Large Member | SUPPORTER Larry Miller | TNGA House Rep HD88 | SUPPORTER Bo Mitchell | TNGA House Rep HD50 | SUPPORTER Sean Parker | Nashville Metro Council, Dist 5 Member Elect | SUPPORTER Antonio Parkinson | TNGA House Rep HD98 | SUPPORTER Jason Potts | TNGA House Rep HD59 | SUPPORTER Jason Powell | TNGA House Rep HD53 | SUPPORTER Ruby M. Powell - Dennis | 2020 Candidate for TNGA House Rep HD97 | SUPPORTER Randy Price | 2018 Candidate for TNGA Senate from District 11 | SUPPORTER Katrina Robinson | TNGA Senator D33 | SUPPORTER Chris Rowe | 2020 Candidate for US Representative in Congress from Tennessee District 1 | SUPPORTER Tami Sawyer | 2019 Candidate for Mayor of Memphis & ShelbyCo Commissioner | SUPPORTER Johnny Shaw | TNGA House Rep HD80 | OPEN-MINDED Ms. Seema Singh | City of Knoxville Council member, Third District | SUPPORTER Robin Smith | TNGA House Rep HD26 | HELPFUL Mike Stewart | TNGA House Rep HD52 | SUPPORTER Damien Talley | 2019 Candidate for TNGA House Rep HD49 | SUPPORTER Brandon Thomas | 2020 Candidate for TNGA House Rep HD49 | SUPPORTER W. James Thomas | Clergy | SUPPORTER Dwayne Thompson | TNGA House Rep HD96 | OPEN-MINDED Tanaka Vercher | Nashville Metro Council Member Dist 28 | SUPPORTER Anita Warner | Pastor | SUPPORTER John Watterberg | Reverend | SUPPORTER Brett Withers | Nashville Metro Council Member Dist 6 | SUPPORTER Jeff Yarbro | TNGA Senator D21 | SUPPORTER Zach Young | Nashville Metro Council Member Elect Dist 10 & Goodlettsville City Commissioner | SUPPORTER HonorableMentions.weebly.com |
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Tennessee Leaders
- SUPPORTER - Carol Abney | 2020 Candidate for TNGA House Rep HD38
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park. Park names should be chosen with careful thought and should make all Tennesseans proud. Glorifying an original member of the KKK is wrong, not to mention embarassing." - SUPPORTER - Raumesh Akbari | TNGA Senator D29
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - SUPPORTER - Bill Beck | TNGA House Rep HD51
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - SUPPORTER - Fabian Bedne | Nashville Metro Council Member Dist 6
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - SUPPORTER - Sam Bledsoe | 2020 Candidate for TNGA House Rep HD61
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - OPEN-MINDED - Richard Briggs | TNGA Senator D7
- SUPPORTER - Karen Camper | TNGA House Rep HD87 - Minority Leader
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - SUPPORTER - Jesse Chism | TNGA House Rep HD85
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - SUPPORTER - John Ray Clemmons | TNGA House Rep HD13
"The name of the [Nathan Bedford Forrest] state park should absolutely be changed." - SUPPORTER - Jim Coley | TNGA House Rep HD97
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - SUPPORTER - Barbara Ward Cooper | TNGA House Rep HD86
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - HELPFUL- Michael Curcio | TNGA House Rep HD69
- SUPPORTER - Anthony Davis | Nashville Metro Council Member Elect Dist 7
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - SUPPORTER - Vincent Dixie | TNGA House Rep HD54
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - OPEN-MINDED - Bill Dunn | TNGA House Rep HD16
- OPEN-MINDED - Andrew Farmer | TNGA House Rep HD17
- SUPPORTER - Bob Freeman | TNGA House Rep HD56
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - SUPPORTER - Meg Gorman | 2020 Candidate for US Representative in Congress from Tennessee District 3
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - SUPPORTER - Yusuf Hakeem | TNGA House Rep HD28
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - SUPPORTER - G.A. Hardaway | TNGA House Rep HD93
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - SUPPORTER - Brenda Haywood | Nashville Metro Council Member Dist 3
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park. I thank you for this important opportunity!" - SUPPORTER - Jason Hodges | TNGA House Rep HD67
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - SUPPORTER - Renee Hoyos | 2020 Candidate for US Representative in Congress from Tennessee District 2
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - OPEN-MINDED - Darren Jernigan | TNGA House Rep HD60
- SUPPORTER - Gloria Johnson | TNGA House Rep HD13
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - SUPPORTER - Mina Johnson | Nashville Metro Council Member Dist 23
"I do support the effort to rename the park. I believe we do need to remember the history to learn from the past mistakes. However, we do not need to name the park after the person associated with atrocious acts." - SUPPORTER - Deanielle Jones | 2019 Candidate for Memphis City Council District 9 Position 2
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park. Would you want to live on a street or frequent an area that's named after racists, tyrants, and murders? No, you would not. Change the name, expeditiously." - OPEN-MINDED - Brian Kelsey | TNGA Senator D31
- SUPPORTER - Sara Kyle | TNGA Senator D30
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - SUPPORTER - London Lamar | TNGA House Rep HD91
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - SUPPORTER - Harold M. Love, Jr. | TNGA House Rep HD58
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - SUPPORTER - James Mackler | 2020 Candidate for US Senator from Tennessee
"The name of the [Nathan Bedford Forrest] state park should absolutely be changed." - SUPPORTER - Aaron Marble | Pastor, Jefferson Street Missionary Baptist Church Nashville
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - SUPPORTER - Holly McCall | Chair, Emerge Tennessee
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - SUPPORTER - Bob Mendes | Nashville Metro Council Member At-Large
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - SUPPORTER - Larry Miller | TNGA House Rep HD88
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - SUPPORTER - Bo Mitchell | TNGA House Rep HD50
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - SUPPORTER - Sean Parker | Nashville Metro Council Member Elect Dist 5
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - SUPPORTER - Antonio Parkinson | TNGA House Rep HD98 |
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - SUPPORTER - Jason Potts | TNGA House Rep HD59
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - SUPPORTER - Jason Powell | TNGA House Rep HD53
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - SUPPORTER - Ruby M. Powell - Dennis | 2020 Candidate for TNGA House Rep HD97
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - SUPPORTER - Katrina Robinson | TNGA Senator (Dist 33)
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - SUPPORTER - Chris Rowe | 2020 Candidate for US Representative in Congress from Tennessee District 1
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park. Much like the bust in the state capitol, we don't need to have such honors for "heroes" whose biggest accomplishments are hatred and racism." - SUPPORTER - Tami Sawyer | ShelbyCo Commissioner & 2019 Candidate for Mayor of Memphis
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park. Make it happen! I shouldn’t have to drive through TN and see “welcome to Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park.” What do you do in that park? Burn crosses? #takeemdown901 - SUPPORTER - Ms. Seema Singh | City of Knoxville Council member, Third District
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park.” - OPEN-MINDED - Johnny Shaw | TNGA House Rep HD80
- HELPFUL - Robin Smith | TNGA House Rep HD26
- SUPPORTER - Mike Stewart | TNGA House Rep HD52
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - SUPPORTER - Damien Talley | 2019 Candidate for TNGA House Rep HD49
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park.” - OPEN-MINDED - Dwayne Thompson | TNGA House Rep HD96
- SUPPORTER - Tanaka Vercher | Nashville Metro Council Member Dist 28
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - SUPPORTER - Brett Withers | Nashville Metro Council Member Dist 6
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - SUPPORTER - Jeff Yarbro | TNGA Senator D21
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - SUPPORTER - Zach Young | Nashville Metro Council Member Elect Dist 10 & Goodlettsville City Commissioner
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park.” - SUPPORTER - Melissa Covington | Former (2019) Candidate for Nashville Metropolitan Council Dist 21
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - SUPPORTER - Randy Price | 2018 Candidate for TNGA Senate from District 11
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park."
Other Leaders
- SUPPORTER - Scott Kelley Ernest | Former White Nationalist Hate Group Leader
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park." - SUPPORTER - Anita Warner | Pastor
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park. State and federal lands set aside for the enjoyment of all our nation's people should not bear the name of one whose legacy involved terrorizing some of our nation's people. Our history includes millions of Tenneseans who have lifted up their communities, state and nation's people through exemplary service. Few women are honored through state parks bearing their name.Consider digging into state history, and in renaming this park, honoring a woman of Tennessee." - SUPPORTER - John Watterberg | Reverend
"Please rename Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park"
- Lamar Alexander | US Senator from Tennesee | Invited | CONTACT INFO
Related quote: "“… there’s an appropriate place to remember them all; in museums, in birth sites, Civil War battlefields. But for a place of honor … that’s a place that ought to be reserved only for Tennesseans who inspire all of us, to bring out the best in all of us. People like Howard Baker or Sam Houston or Alex Haley or Minnie Pearl or …“ – Lamar Alexander, 2017 via the Tennessean - Marcia Blackburn | US Senator from Tennesee | Invited
- Jim Bryson | Deputy Commissioner, Bureau of Parks & Conservation, State of Tennessee | Invited
- Ron Gant | State Representative for Tennessee House District 94 | Invited
- Bill Lee | Governor of Tennesee | Invited | Last known position on Nathan Bedford Forrest memorials (Feb 15, 2019)
- Randy McNally | Lt Governor of Tennessee
- Dr. Phil Roe | US Representative in Congress from TN District 1 | Invited
- David Salyers | Commissioner, Environment and Conservation, State of Tennessee
- John Stevens | State Senator for Tennessee Senate District 24 (includes NBF State Park)
- Mike Stewart | State Representative for Tennessee House Dist 52 (proposed bill to eliminate NBF Day)
- Jim Strickland | Mayor of Memphis | Invited
- Jason Zachary | State Representative for Tennessee House Dist 14 | Invited