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13. Interesting that TN's John Rose, who notoriously groomed his now-wife
Fri Feb 27, 2026, 01:54 AM
Yesterday

when she was a high school Future Farmers Club member and he was a middle aged creep on the Future Farmers Board, is a co-sponsor.
https://prospect.org/2022/04/08/how-republican-rep-john-rose-found-his-wife/

"In March 2007, 17-year-old high school senior Chelsea Doss (now Chelsea Brooke Rose), traveled four hours from Eagleville to Gatlinburg, Tennessee, to participate in the state’s 79th annual Future Farmers of America convention.
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Among the convention attendees was her future husband, the then vice chairman of the board of the Tennessee FFA and current Tennessee congressman John Rose.
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Given all of that, it is newsworthy that a powerful conservative Tennessee politician married someone less than half his age, after several connections between the two when the young woman was in high school and college, including the granting of a scholarship to her named after Rose’s parents. One scarcely needs to mention that relationships involving that kind of yawning gap in power and wealth have a problematic history."

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