Dyer County, Tenn.–Republican Rusty Grills of Dyer County won the nomination of the Republican Party as 77th District State Representative at Tuesday’s special Primary Election. A special General Election will be held December 19 and Grills will face Democrat Michael Smith and Independents Billy Jones, Max Smith and Ronnie Henley on that ballot.
Grills is a full-time farmer with the ninth-generation Grills Family Farm in Dyer County and ran for election and ran on a platform of “Faith, Family, Farming”. Grills also serves as a Dyer County Commissioner and ran as a ‘true conservative’, opposed to all tax increases and for keeping government ‘out of our lives’.
The 77th District represents Lake, Dyer and part of Obion. He defeated three other Republican candidates Tuesday. The seat was vacated by Republican Representative Bill Sanderson, who was elected in 2018 to his fifth term, when he announced his resignation effective September 5.
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