Politics: The Tennessee Three

I ran out of time to do any other post of this blog so this will have to tide you over until the next one over a month from now. It is an important thing to cover and I was wanting to cover it before the special election that might be in August to see whether or not people can retain their seats. If you don’t know what this post is about, you can simply read more here:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Tennessee_House_of_Representatives_expulsions

 

So here’s what you need to know in terms of all of the important people relating to this. There were three Democratic lawmakers in Tennessee: Gloria Johnson, who is white, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, who are both black. They joined protesters who marched in the Tennessee state capitol. They used a bullhorn and talked before the capitol over inaction on gun control after the 2023 Covenant School shooting.

 

The Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives, Cameron Sexton, condemned this, revoking their ID cards and committee assignments. He compared that to the storming of the US capitol. This shows you how the Republican Party Knows Nothing since most people can tell you just how bad the storming of the capitol was if they aren’t Republicans revising history that was fucking documented on camera not even three years ago versus, well, this obvious not crime infested event that you can view for yourself here and try to rationalize why and how it is anything like what was seen on January 6^th of 2021.

 

https://twitter.com/TheTNHoller/status/1641479214024077317

 

The Republicans of the House of this state voted to expel the two black men, but not the white woman. I don’t know why two seats leading into this vote were either vacant or simply not voting on the resolutions. The one to get rid of Jones, HR65, was sponsored by Bud Hulsey, Gino Bulso, Andrew Farmer, and Johnny Garrett. Gino also supported the unsuccessful one against Johnson, HR64. The one to get rid of Pearson, HR63, was sponsored by Andrew.

 

This is where things get interesting and kind of funny in an ironic way that Republicans may never fully appreciate. Both of the expelled members, Justin and Justin (both now just in to the office again) were reappointed to their seats and are back almost as if nothing has happened. This makes them predominant figures nationally when they wouldn’t have been known as well if they were merely censured or nothing happened at all.

 

While there will be a special election to see if they can keep these seats, it won’t be until August 3, 2023. I do plan to cover the results of this at some point, but we’ll see how long that takes. I plan to target monetarily (the only way I would ever target a politician, by donating to their opponents) the underlined Republicans at some point after the regular primary next year.