TN-LG: Tennessee Lt. Gov. McNally (R) won't run for reelection; wraps nearly 50-year career
Lt. Gov. Randy McNally announced Thursday he will not run for reelection this year, after serving in the Tennessee legislature for nearly a half-century.
“It is with a full heart and a deep sense of gratitude that I announce I will not be a candidate for the state Senate in 2026,” McNally, 82, wrote on Facebook. “My aim each day was to leave my state and my community a little better than I found them.”
McNally, an Oak Ridge Republican and a pharmacist by profession, was elected to the House of Representatives in 1979.
After a lobbyist for the bingo industry offered him $10,000 in exchange for his votes to legalize horse racing, McNally worked with the FBI during the bureau’s probe of political corruption in state government, wearing a wire throughout the investigation.
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