Do you still live in Tennessee? If so, go fuck yourself.

This is ass covering by our governor over all the scandals that have made news in the wake of the shooting.

Hilarious. The guy basically went "uhhhhh, Leadership asked me to do it."

Loved the bit at the end where since he is technically a new member he can file 15 new bills and all will be common sense gun laws keeping this issue in the spotlight.

Second expelled legislator to get a vote on returning.

https://twitter.com/carltonwinfrey/status/1646222834878799877

I was apparently late to see this because I just got a news alert saying he won the vote and is also reappointed.

Great job Tenn Leg. You played yourself.

God these people are stoopid...

https://twitter.com/goldengateblond/status/1646344160205746176?s=46&t=QiuV69xq9AIYylUGTRqITA

Bitch fell out of the karen tree and hit every branch on the way down except for the karen bob branch. Someone get her a haircut quick.

Next step for the GOP in TN is to make sure to pass a law stating that if removed from the legislature only a white christian republican male can appoint another white christian republican male to the open seat.

I would love to be joking, but it is coming and I do not think the dems have the power to stop it.

https://twitter.com/thetnholler/status/1646619418233917442?s=46&t=iYW3foyqIA6Tn8VWwn3nwQ

Crossville, TN, the area ⁦@CSexton25 represents, was a sundown town and had a mural depicting a lynching on the elementary school wall until 2018.

https://twitter.com/kjchambers/status/1646656652840411138?s=20

Pics at the link.

This leaked audio is hilarious.

https://twitter.com/thetnholler/status/1646548124272324608

Apparently the Tenn Leg has decided they got enough work done and it is time to go home a couple weeks early.

https://twitter.com/thetnholler/status/1646516815248646144

Seems Sexton has some issues to sort out at home:

https://twitter.com/jasondotnews/status/1646832578014461954

As does someone close to the governor:

This is amazing.

https://twitter.com/thetnholler/status/1647308545988128772

TN GOP is in full on panic mode.

Are they, though?

These are Republicans. They don't have to be panicking to spew lies 24/7.

Still more grifting from another Tennessee right-wing Republican!

Nine years ago, Rep. Andy Ogles, who was elected to the House last year, raised $23,000 to create a cemetery for stillborn babies. The cemetery was never built. The first time a media outlet questioned him about where the money went, he refused to answer. Later on -- after taking time to think up a story? -- he released a statement claiming that he used it to pay for burials for other families. He presented "corroboration" not from any of these families, but from a political ally who -- surprise! -- had to pay nearly $8 million a few years back to settle fraud claims against him.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bggm/andy-ogles-gofundme-child-burial-garden-money

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...es-gofundme-child-burial-garden-b2302378.html

Oh, and he also lied on his resume. So maybe this should have gone in the Santos thread?

Oh, they are. Back in 2020, several members of the state legislature were raided by the FBI for things like taking bribes and they barely said anything. Thanks to gerrymandering they didn’t have to worry about losing any seats in last year’s elections, so why should they?

Now, the whole goddamned planet is watching and laughing at us. They’re shitting their pants over this. There’s been comments in recent months that Ford (who’s building an electric vehicle factory in TN) isn’t happy with some of the shit the assembly’s been doing and that’s making some in the state GOP nervous.

Ford’s too far along to pull out but they can still scale back their plans.

Which home?

The $600k Nashville home an anonymous trust he controls purchased and he and his family live in (his kids go to Nashville schools) or the one he claims he lives in back in his district both so he can continue to represent the district AND collect $92k in per diem ‘traveling’ back and forth?

https://twitter.com/juddlegum/status/1647336148186923008

oh there's this whole other story about them fucking over black farmers to get their land for Ford. Like deeply profoundly undervaluing the property.

And I think that Ford's also raised issues about that. I could be wrong.

BREAKING: Rep. Scotty Campbell has resigned effective immediately, according to Speaker Cameron Sexton.

https://twitter.com/thechrisob/status/1649132691915255814?s=46&t=iYW3foyqIA6Tn8VWwn3nwQ

He’s a sexual harasser.

Nice

Good listen:

Democratic Decline in Tennessee

Early this month, the Republican supermajority in the Tennessee House of Representatives voted to expel two Democratic lawmakers who had participated in a protest against gun violence on the House floor. The GOP also narrowly failed to expel a third Democrat.

The two legislators who were expelled, Reps. Justin Pearson and Justin Jones, have now returned to the House. But the incident turned national attention on Tennessee’s struggling democracy. To discuss, Lawfare Senior Editor Quinta Jurecic spoke with Samar Ali, Research Professor of Political Science and Law at Vanderbilt University and Co-Chair of Vanderbilt’s Project on Unity & American Democracy, and Sekou Franklin, Professor of Political Science at Middle Tennessee State University, and the author—with Ray Block—of the book “Losing Power: African Americans and Racial Polarization in Tennessee Politics.” They explained how the expulsions should be understood as part of a larger process of democratic backsliding and misgovernment in Tennessee, and how that backsliding is itself part of a larger trend of democratic erosion at the subnational as well as the national level.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-lawfare-podcast/id498897343

Point that was made that I wasn’t aware of is that ‘she was expelled because she was white’ narrative isn’t as clear cut.

While the Justins represented themselves in the Expulsion hearings Johnson came in with two high power attorneys BOTH prior members of the legislature.

So yeah. We can all relax. It likely wasn’t JUST that she was white. It was at least in part because she had the resources and connections to get effective representation.

So we can all rest easy knowing racism isn’t a thing.

Thing about the harasser who bailed - Sexton has known about it for three weeks, AND expended state money to move HER home in an effort to keep dudes bullshit on the down low.

also, there's this

Even TN Republican politicians are less than thrilled with some of the shit that’s been happening.

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/n...nt-scandal-tennessee-three-want-investigation

I should've put this in the Trumpite Americans thread because this is exactly like something he'd do.




https://twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1650634883201376257?s=20

And the speaker of the Assembly appears to have committed voter fraud, along with his wife!



https://twitter.com/brookjolley/status/1651282182701293569?s=46&t=iYW3foyqIA6Tn8VWwn3nwQ