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Candidate Switches to Independent in TN Congressional Race

By Angela Hatton

Nashville, TN – A Republican candidate running to succeed Representative John Tanner in Congress says he will now run as an independent. Brighton businessman Donn Janes will now run as a "Tea Party" candidate for the 8th Congressional District seat in northwestern Tennessee. Janes says that he wants to break the reliance on what he called the "corrupt" two-party system in America. Tanner, a Democrat, announced in December he won't seek a 12th term. Democratic state Senator Roy Herron of Dresden and Republican farmer and gospel singer Stephen Fincher of Crockett County lead the candidate field in fundraising.