How Bill Lee and Karl Dean plan to win Tennessee's race for governor
One candidate spent three decades growing his family’s home services and construction company based in Franklin.
The other worked almost entirely in government over the same period of time, first as a public defender, then as Nashville’s top attorney, then as its mayor.
The race between Republican gubernatorial nominee Bill Lee, chairman and former CEO of Lee Company, and Democratic nominee Karl Dean, former mayor of Nashville, pits two men with mild-mannered temperament and tone against one another.
They are just four years apart in age, but they’ve taken dramatically different paths to get here.
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