Jerri Green
Green, a Memphis councilwoman, has no located positions on aid to Israel, aid to Palestinians, or the conflict. Her one located adjacent statement condemned antisemitic chatbot output in July 2025: “There is no place for hate speech... Words matter and even free speech has its limits”.
Green, a Memphis city councilwoman and former public defender, is the Democratic nominee for governor of Tennessee.
Her only located statement adjacent to this record’s topics is municipal: in July 2025, as the Memphis Flyer reported, she condemned antisemitic output generated by xAI’s Grok chatbot, whose data center sits in her city: "There is no place for hate speech, including on social media, and we know it can have real world consequences. Words matter and even free speech has its limits."
No statement on U.S. aid to Israel, aid to Palestinians, the conflict, or Israel-related lobbying was located at any date.
A governor takes no federal votes on these topics; the card records her public statements only. It can be updated if she takes positions during the campaign.
Research
U.S. military aid and weapons to Israel
- Nothing located at any date.
U.S. aid to Palestinians
- Nothing located at any date.
Characterization of the conflict
- Nothing located at any date.
Related rhetoric and lobbying
- Nothing located; no tracked committee support.
Safety and antisemitism
- [Position, 2025-07-10] The Grok condemnation, verified in the Memphis Flyer’s report of her post, quoted on the card.
Sources retrieved for this card
- Pages the research round retrieved on 2026-08-21 (HTTP 200, naming the candidate) and read into the digest this card was written from; each is listed once, and those already cited above are not repeated.
- [Retrieved 2026-08-21] ballotpedia.org/Jerri_Green
- [Retrieved 2026-08-21] tnfirefly.com/jerri-green
- [Retrieved 2026-08-21] putnamdemocrats.org/jerri-green
Race and status context
- Democratic nominee for governor against Sen. Marsha Blackburn, whose card carries a federal record.
Also in this race: Misam Abidi (Independent), Marsha Blackburn (Republican), Dean Brewer (Independent), Ray Brown (Independent), David Hatley (Independent), Wendell Jackson (Independent), Charles Morgan (Independent), Eddie Lee Murphy (Independent), Lauren Pinkston (Independent), Victor Scoggin (Independent), Dave Seeman (Independent), Karl Smithson (Independent), L. Webb Taylor (Independent), Robert Vick (Independent) · All Tennessee candidates.
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