Rs will vote to expel Ds from TN legislature

[cattledogkisses]

Republicans will vote to expel three Democrats from the Tennessee Legislature following gun control protest

Three Democratic lawmakers who took part in protests on the House floor of the Tennessee statehouse will face expulsion later this week.

Earlier Monday, the three lawmakers were removed from their committee assignments and had their badges to the capitol deactivated.

Reps. Justin Jones, D-Nashville; Justin J. Pearson, D-Memphis; and Gloria Johnson, D-Knoxville, are facing discipline after supporting protesters pushing for more gun control at the capitol, days after the Covenant School shooting.

wpln.org/post/republicans-bar-three-democrats-from-committees-following-their-gun-control-protest-on-tennessee-house-floor/

ETA:  @ content in article

[estrellita]

This guy is trying to compare this protest to Jan 6, and saying it's possibly worse. WTAF?? I can't.

[Velar Fricative]

That is fucking insane.

Found this more detailed article, including information about what kind of conduct did NOT result in expulsions. Fucking hypocrites. Some @ mentions in the article as well as TW: abuse.

www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2023/04/03/tennessee-republicans-file-resolutions-to-expel-three-democrats-who-led-gun-reform-chants-on-house-f/70078002007/

[Bad Dingo]

I was watching this go down on Twitter yesterday, it's insane.

[picksthemusic]

This is so egregiously horrible. So scary.

[SwimDeep]

I really feel like this should be a bigger story than "Florida man gets arrested." I'm not dismissing the biglyness of TFG actually maybe being held accountable, but what's happened in TN is bad... and other states (like mine) will likely follow their example.

This should be bigger news, and I hate the orange fuck for being such a big lousy distraction 😒

[cattledogkisses]

Apr 4, 2023 16:44:33 GMT -5 SwimDeep said:

I really feel like this should be a bigger story than "Florida man gets arrested." I'm not dismissing the biglyness of TFG actually maybe being held accountable, but what's happened in TN is bad... and other states (like mine) will likely follow their example.

This should be bigger news, and I hate the orange fuck for being such a big lousy distraction 😒

Yes, Tennessee might be the first, but I doubt they'll be the last Republican-majority state legislature to try to weaponize their power to oust their Democratic colleagues. 

It also did not escape my notice that two of the three lawmakers being expelled are black.

[underwaterrhymes]

Just got an alert from NBC that Nashville Council voted to reinstate Justin Jones.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/nashville-council-expected-consider-reinstating-ousted-former-rep-just-rcna78924

[seeyalater52]

I’m so glad Rep Jones was reinstated. But also so curious how TN GOP saw this going for them. Total unforced error.

[katfco]

Apr 10, 2023 17:27:08 GMT -5 seeyalater52 said:

I’m so glad Rep Jones was reinstated. But also so curious how TN GOP saw this going for them. Total unforced error.

I think we're at a point right now where the GOP is throwing everything awful out there to see what they can get away with. 

[NewOrleans]

This should be a bigger story:

However, local officials said state legislators angered by Pearson’s re-appointment could potentially block funding to Memphis. “We are also being threatened by the state to take away funding, needed funding to run our schools, to run our municipalities,” Shelby County Commissioner Erika Sugarmon told FOX 13 Memphis. No legislators have publicly stated if they would do this.

Another commissioner, Amber Mills, told the Commercial Appeal that she would decline to reappoint Pearson because it may result in legislators barring funds from coming to Shelby County.

www.huffpost.com/entry/justin-pearson-appalled-gop-cut-shelby-county-funds_n_64346e42e4b0859acb95767c/amp

[basilosaurus]

Apr 10, 2023 18:51:55 GMT -5 katfco said:

Apr 10, 2023 17:27:08 GMT -5 seeyalater52 said:

I’m so glad Rep Jones was reinstated. But also so curious how TN GOP saw this going for them. Total unforced error.

I think we're at a point right now where the GOP is throwing everything awful out there to see what they can get away with. 

I think you're right. New Orleans pay about blocking funding if an elected rep is allowed to rep is beyond the pale. But not being gqp

[rubytue]

There was a point in life where I loved being from TN. I’m now rather glad the accent was teased out of me in college. My HS friends and I talk about how we once had aspirations of retiring back home. Now, we are all glad we left.

I know this is tangential, but it’s about all I can process - how did TN end up here?! (So yeah, I know how, that’s more the scream into the void) Fun fact - I grew up walking to school right by Randy McNally’s house, went to his daughter’s birthday parties and such). My father always said he was a fucker.

[mysteriouswife]

Apr 10, 2023 20:59:55 GMT -5 rubytue said:

There was a point in life where I loved being from TN. I’m now rather glad the accent was teased out of me in college. My HS friends and I talk about how we once had aspirations of retiring back home. Now, we are all glad we left.

I know this is tangential, but it’s about all I can process - how did TN end up here?! (So yeah, I know how, that’s more the scream into the void) Fun fact - I grew up walking to school right by Randy McNally’s house, went to his daughter’s birthday parties and such). My father always said he was a fucker.

I agree. I remember being excited to say I’m from Nashville. Now don’t want to admit it. There is so much fuckery. I’m ashamed to be American most days too

[seeyalater52]

Apr 10, 2023 20:59:55 GMT -5 rubytue said:

There was a point in life where I loved being from TN. I’m now rather glad the accent was teased out of me in college. My HS friends and I talk about how we once had aspirations of retiring back home. Now, we are all glad we left.

I know this is tangential, but it’s about all I can process - how did TN end up here?! (So yeah, I know how, that’s more the scream into the void) Fun fact - I grew up walking to school right by Randy McNally’s house, went to his daughter’s birthday parties and such). My father always said he was a fucker.

To join you on this tangent I’m not from TN by any stretch but having worked in the state on policy for almost 10 years it has been alarming to see how quickly the political dynamics have disintegrated between 2014/2015 to now. I’d consider TN one of the worst states for political backsliding in the country (Montana is also top of that list.)

[rubytue]

Apr 11, 2023 11:08:14 GMT -5 seeyalater52 said:

Apr 10, 2023 20:59:55 GMT -5 rubytue said:

There was a point in life where I loved being from TN. I’m now rather glad the accent was teased out of me in college. My HS friends and I talk about how we once had aspirations of retiring back home. Now, we are all glad we left.

I know this is tangential, but it’s about all I can process - how did TN end up here?! (So yeah, I know how, that’s more the scream into the void) Fun fact - I grew up walking to school right by Randy McNally’s house, went to his daughter’s birthday parties and such). My father always said he was a fucker.

To join you on this tangent I’m not from TN by any stretch but having worked in the state on policy for almost 10 years it has been alarming to see how quickly the political dynamics have disintegrated between 2014/2015 to now. I’d consider TN one of the worst states for political backsliding in the country (Montana is also top of that list.)

Wow, interesting. Obviously not just my perception from afar. I haven’t been down there since my father passed in 2017, and I’m kind of scared to. I know the last time I drove down, I was concerned about my Obama bumper sticker. And that was probably 2010. 

Growing up, Al Gore was my senator (and Jim Sasser). Al Gore people. Sure, he has his issues. But can you imagine him coming from a southern state today?

[Poeticxpassion]

Apr 10, 2023 20:59:55 GMT -5 rubytue said:

There was a point in life where I loved being from TN. I’m now rather glad the accent was teased out of me in college. My HS friends and I talk about how we once had aspirations of retiring back home. Now, we are all glad we left.

I know this is tangential, but it’s about all I can process - how did TN end up here?! (So yeah, I know how, that’s more the scream into the void) Fun fact - I grew up walking to school right by Randy McNally’s house, went to his daughter’s birthday parties and such). My father always said he was a fucker.

I’ve always wanted to buy land in Tennessee to build a small house for my parents and an in law type place where my brother, who also has MS, could live. My parents use to vacation right outside Pigeon Forge every year. Now, I don’t know where to go. 

I just can’t do it! They act all confused when I tell them I’m not moving back to Florida or going to Tennessee. 

[penguingineer]

We moved from Boston to Knoxville in Fall 2012, and I remember being struck by how I went from a place where President Obama was revered to where he was reviled.

Sometime in 2015, Trump held a campaign rally in Knoxville. I remember overhearing two old, white guys talking about having gone, and I was like “People went to that!?!” Sigh . . .

Now we live in Arkansas (all moves have been work related), and ugh(!) I hate living in a Republican supermajority where the governor doesn’t give two shits about Arkansans just elevating her public profile.

[pixy0stix]

Justin Pearson was just reappointed.

[mrsd2006]

Can they be thrown out again?

[seeyalater52]

Apr 12, 2023 15:10:29 GMT -5 mrsd2006 said:

Can they be thrown out again?

Yes but not for the same incident.

[NewOrleans]

Leaked recording of TN GOP whining that everyone is calling them racist because the one guy voted not expel Gloria Johnson too, while he tries to explain a shred of how law, ethics, and evidence work. They really wanted to expel her to try to hide the racism. As if! Money quote from the whining fuckup colleague: “You gotta do what's right even if you think it might be wrong.”

really, you just need to listen to it. Too much to summarize.

www.wsmv.com/2023/04/13/democrats-are-not-our-friends-gop-lawmakers-voice-frustrations-with-tennessee-three-audio-leaks/

[suburbanzookeeper]

The unleashing that's come out on the speaker has been quite the trip to watch if anyone wants to fall down a Twitter rabbit hole.

[NewOrleans]

Apr 15, 2023 0:19:03 GMT -5 suburbanzookeeper said:

The unleashing that's come out on the speaker has been quite the trip to watch if anyone wants to fall down a Twitter rabbit hole.

They found his mistress and tagged his wife in the post.  So much wonderful mess! 😈

[estrellita]

Apr 15, 2023 8:18:17 GMT -5 NewOrleans said:

Apr 15, 2023 0:19:03 GMT -5 suburbanzookeeper said:

The unleashing that's come out on the speaker has been quite the trip to watch if anyone wants to fall down a Twitter rabbit hole.

They found his mistress and tagged his wife in the post.  So much wonderful mess! 😈

Omg, I had read about the residency and tax issues but not this yet. This guy really screwed himself over by becoming the center of attention 😂

[NewOrleans]

Apr 15, 2023 9:12:47 GMT -5 estrellita said:

Apr 15, 2023 8:18:17 GMT -5 NewOrleans said:

They found his mistress and tagged his wife in the post.  So much wonderful mess! 😈

Omg, I had read about the residency and tax issues but not this yet. This guy really screwed himself over by becoming the center of attention 😂

You’re welcome! She’s a lobbyist.

[basilosaurus]

Oh, praise be! This schadenfreude is exactly what I needed to liven up my night

[pixy0stix]

The mistress(es) angle is fun, as is the friend writing to try to get them to lay off of one of them, but the fact that he doesn't live in his district is what is gonna get him - www.newsweek.com/cameron-sexton-tennessee-speaker-resign-scandal-1794796

[seeyalater52]

Apr 17, 2023 10:02:45 GMT -5 pixy0stix said:

The mistress(es) angle is fun, as is the friend writing to try to get them to lay off of one of them, but the fact that he doesn't live in his district is what is gonna get him - www.newsweek.com/cameron-sexton-tennessee-speaker-resign-scandal-1794796

100%

For better or worse this is the sort of stuff people actually care about when it comes to state legislators.