Mayoral candidate Karl Dean spoke at last night’s Sylvan Park Neighborhood Association meeting for about 15 minutes and continued to draw parallels between himself and Nashville’s most recent two mayors, Phil Bredesen and Bill Purcell. He mentioned that Nashville has been blessed with 16 years of strong leadership from both men and said that he sees similarities between himself and each of them. Dean noted that although the two mayors had fundamentally different leadership styles and personalities, “both of them got the big things right.” Dean went on to say that “Bill doesn’t like for me to say this, but we met in jail,” referring to their initial meeting while both were serving the public years ago.

Dean has made this comparison previously, and it’s not a bad set of talking points, based on how popular Bredesen and Purcell have been. We’ll see whether the comparison sticks over the next few months.

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