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Jerry Summers: Chain Voting In Chattanooga Thursday, April 15, 2021 - by Jerry Summers
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With the recent controversy over the voting in the presidential election, Republican President Trump’s claim that voting by mail would lead to massive voter fraud and Democrat Joe Biden claiming an on-going effort to suppress a large turnout to support him, it is time to re-address the history of voting in the inner city of Chattanooga in what would commonly be known as the “controlled wards.”
Illegal gamblers had developed a strong political base during the period of World War II up until around the 1960s when the Republican Party under William (Bill) Brock, III of Lookout Mountain defeated Wilkes Thrasher, Jr. for the 3
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Bill Brock, right, is seen in more recent years with brothers Frank Brock, left, and Pat Brock - photo by Courtesy of Frank Brock
Pat Brock remembers hearing the standard joke around the late 1950s about the Republican Party in Chattanooga and Hamilton County – if you wanted to have a party meeting, you could probably hold it in a telephone booth.
He also vividly recalls an early local organizing meeting for the party, when only eight or nine people showed up.