Tennessee legislature expels two black Democrats for gun-control demonstration on house floor (1 Viewer)

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    A third white female Democrat that joined in the demonstration was not expelled (saved by a single vote).

    The Republicans argue that the demonstration for gun control to protest the Nashville school shooting was so out of order that it compels the members’ expulsion.

    I started a thread because this development is now about something different, not the gun debate.

    The expulsion proceedings threatened to strip more than 200,000 Tennesseans of their elected representation and mark just the fourth time since the end of the Civil War in which the House ousted sitting lawmakers. No House member has ever been removed from elected office for simply violating decorum rules.
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    It might actually be getting worse. Word now is that someone has identified Speaker Sexton's lobbyist mistress- and tagged Lacey Sexton in the Tweet.
     
    MT15 said:
    She probably knew about it or at least suspected. From hints online it’s not the first mistress.
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    Karma is a SOB. The light has been turned on at the Tennessee state house. Watch the roaches start running. Ole Sexton had a bigger hard-on for taking down the two black representatives than he did for his mistress. It's a typical outcome when powerful men let their little head do the thinking for them. I hope both his entire family and family of the mistress are embarrassed publicly until he is forced to resign.

    If his mistress' husband is any kind of man, he will confront the good representative and personally ask him to resign. Racist, tax cheat, liar and adulterer but I bet he's in church praising the Lord every Sunday. Is this what people from Tennessee believe a good Christian is? We shall see.
     
    Tennessee Republican state representatives’ outlandish recent expulsion of two Black Democratic lawmakers brought shame on the GOP and on a state with a dismal history of voter repression. But the attempt to silence the lawmakers, for leading a youth-driven gun protest at the Capitol following the March 27 Nashville school slaughter, might also have accelerated two key developments: (1) awareness that social change is inextricably linked to democracy’s defense, and (2) engagement of young voters, who have lately been showing their muscle.

    Though Democrats quickly reappointed the ousted lawmakers, the Tennessee travesty is a reminder that a largely White Republican Party increasingly resorts to antidemocratic means to squelch Black voting power and maintain policies (on guns, abortion, LGBTQ rights) that most voters reject. As Democracy Docket’s Caroline Sullivan and Madeleine Greenberg point out, the expulsion was not an isolated event in Tennessee, but rather part of a widespread attack on democracy that includes 470,000 people affected by felony disenfranchisement, egregious gerrymandering and barriers to mail-in voting.

    If their representatives cannot be heard, voters will find that their interests — on matters such as gun safety, education and health care — can be quashed. The effort to muzzle the majority reflects the MAGA movement’s heightened panic.

    “Tired from choosing to defend the indefensible, enraged at being called out, Trump’s supporters lash out,” evangelical Christian and conservative writer Peter Wehner wrote in an Atlantic article headlined “An Acute Attack of Trumpism in Tennessee.” In this case, the entire country witnessed a temper tantrum that tried to block progress on guns by quashing free speech and representative democracy.

    This is a party frantic to hold back the tide of social change. As long as a narrow subsection of mostly White officials can gerrymander districts, erect obstacles to voting and appoint partisan ideologues to the bench (as well as maintain antidemocratic mechanisms such as the Senate filibuster), social change might be impossible. Voters and their representatives cannot address gun safety (favored by an overwhelming majority of Americans) or preserve abortion rights (favored by a 2-1 majority) unless democratic values are secured and fortified.................

    The temporarily ousted Tennessee state representatives, Justin Pearson and Justin Jones, both under 30, had stood shoulder to shoulder with students who poured out of Nashville schools protesting inaction on gun safety. They garnered national attention at a time younger voters are drawing attention as a decisive voting bloc. Republicans are noticing.

    In Wisconsin, a Republican former governor, Scott Walker, viewing the results of Democrats’ recent win in the state Supreme Court election, declared on Twitter, “Younger voters are the issue.” Although he bizarrely blamed “radical indoctrination,” Walker’s conclusion was sound: “We have to counter it or conservatives will never win battleground states again.”

    In a similar vein, GOP pollster and strategist Kellyanne Conway said on Fox News that Republicans have “got work to do on the young people who think differently on abortion, perhaps, or guns or climate change.” She’s worried that Democrats can create a “turnout machine with young people.”..........

    The significance of the youth vote shouldn’t be underestimated. “If the elections had been decided by voters 45 and older, Republicans would have won the House by an even greater margin and likely taken the Senate,” polling analyst John Della Volpe wrote in the New York Times after the election.

    The implications for 2024 are eye-opening, according to Simon Rosenberg, a Democratic pollster who pre-bunked the 2022 red wave. “Projecting forward,” he writes on Substack, “keeping the 2020 vote constant, but now [adjusting] upward for the growth of [Gen Z and Millennial] generations into the electorate,” he found, these two segments could rise to 37 percent of all voters. The result would be a national margin for Democrats of 6 percent...........

     
    apnews.com

    Rep. Jones brings infant-sized casket into Tennessee Capitol

    The recently reinstated Rep. Justin Jones carried an infant-sized casket into Tennessee’s Capitol as protesters calling for gun safety legislation outside the Capitol were blocked from bringing caskets inside. Demonstrators led by Bishop William Barber II marched in Nashville on Monday...
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    The spin - hypocrisy because Tennessee was no different than Jan 6th
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    In the last two years, the defense of democracy has been central to the Democratic Party's attempt to portray itself as the last line of defense against Republicans' alleged authoritarianism. But as recent events in Nashville showed, Democrats' alleged fealty to democracy and abhorrence for agitators and mobs seeking to disrupt the legislative branch of government is more a matter of situational ethics than actual principle. As the career of a new Democratic idol, Tennessee State Rep. Justin Jones, demonstrates, they're only against anti-democratic rioters when they're seeking to silence Republicans.

    Jones became a national celebrity when, along with two other Democrats—Reps. Justin Pearson and Gloria Johnson—he disrupted a March 30 session of the Tennessee legislature to demand that it consider anti-gun rights laws that he supported. Acting in conjunction with a mob of demonstrators that had flooded the state capitol in Nashville, the trio, armed with bullhorns, seized the podium and shut down the assembly, ranting about Republicans being complicit in mass shootings. The demonstrators were kept outside the chamber but harassed both legislators and cops who were present. Eventually, order was restored and days later the legislature voted to expel Jones and Pearson. Johnson escaped the same fate by only a narrow margin..........

    This reaction is a complete contradiction of everything the Democrats have been preaching to us for the last two years.

    The events of January 6, 2021, have become Democrats' rallying cry—that day's "insurrection" was, depending on the speaker, the moral equivalent of the firing on Fort Sumter, Pearl Harbor, or even 9/11.

    Those who broke the law by entering the Capitol on that day and disrupting the ritual counting of the votes of the Electoral College were branded as "insurrectionists." But soon, as the farcical partisan witch hunt conducted by the House January 6 Committee showed, that label was expanded to include anyone who took part in the legal demonstration about alleged election fraud that day in Washington or who raised questions about the vote count in Congress. Anyone who didn't agree that the riot was a coup d'état led by former president Donald Trump was also lumped into the "insurrectionist" category.

    The Democratic talking points then expanded to falsely label those Republicans who passed voter integrity laws as not merely bigots but also, in President Joe Biden's words, "semi-fascists" waging a war on democracy.

    It's true that the Democrats' disgraceful behavior in Nashville was not as bad as Jan. 6. But the difference is one of scale, not principle. Both were attempts to disrupt the working of a democratically elected government body by using force and intimidation. The difference is that in one the people seeking to overturn democracy were Democrats, while in the other Republicans were the guilty parties..............

     
    So the time frame that the 3 reps were “out of order” was less than a minute because the session was ending. And the “mob” were legally present in the gallery observing the session. They were “out of order” because they were chanting.

    I’m not really sure, but this seems to be way different than breaking and entering, ransacking, and attempting to attack legislators. Whoever wrote that is not a serious person.
     
    Sexton spent taxpayer monies to attempt to keep a harassment charge against another GOP Rep quiet. These are such great guys 😡

     

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