Items in rearview mirror are closer than they appear: U.S. Rep. John Rose took a dig at U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn, his opponent in the 2026 Repubian gubernatorial primary, over a clause she sponsored in a federal government funding measure. (Photo: John Partipilo/Tennessee Lookout)

Tennessee gubernatorial candidate U.S. Rep. John Rose is taking a dig at the frontrunner, Sen. Marsha Blackburn, with a bill passed to keep senators from suing the feds for half-a-million bucks.

Rose, a Cookeville Republican, said in an X post Nov. 12, that the Senate sneaked a “poison pill” into the government funding measure enabling senators whose phone records were searched without their knowledge in the investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot to file suit for $500,000 each.

“This is exactly why A

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