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Post by onelasttime on Apr 6, 2023 20:53:12 GMT
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RosieKat
Drama Llama
PeaJect #12
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Post by RosieKat on Apr 6, 2023 21:07:53 GMT
I'm not surprised, but I am pretty speechless.
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Post by Darcy Collins on Apr 6, 2023 21:33:05 GMT
Wow - I'm honestly speechless. Way to fight to be bottom of the barrel Tennessee.
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edie3
Drama Llama
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Jun 26, 2014 1:03:18 GMT
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Post by edie3 on Apr 6, 2023 21:40:32 GMT
What the absolute fuck?
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Post by Merge on Apr 6, 2023 21:50:27 GMT
Texas and Florida: we’re the worst!
Tennessee, today: hold my beer.
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Post by peasapie on Apr 6, 2023 22:13:18 GMT
I don’t thnk elected Democrats (so far) are doing enough to support and decry. Time will tell. We’re watching to see what happens next
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Post by onelasttime on Apr 6, 2023 22:22:00 GMT
So far One ousted, One survived and One to go…
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Post by onelasttime on Apr 6, 2023 22:28:08 GMT
It was close…
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Post by epeanymous on Apr 6, 2023 22:32:15 GMT
Texas and Florida: we’re the worst! Tennessee, today: hold my beer. Idaho would like a word.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 6, 2023 22:46:41 GMT
Showing their true colors..
They can manage to get along with a white woman, but not a black man!
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Apr 6, 2023 23:28:49 GMT
I’m listening to YouTube right now (I think it’s live?) and I am LIVID. I am so angry with Lambeth and Farmer. I am happy that Pearson is able to respond to them and takes them to task.
Didn’t all three tee do the same thing so how did they expel the first man but not the woman?
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scrappinmama
Pearl Clutcher
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Jun 26, 2014 12:54:09 GMT
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Post by scrappinmama on Apr 6, 2023 23:32:49 GMT
Showing their true colors.. They can manage to get along with a white woman, but not a black man! Yup! I was just about to say the same thing. It's not a coincidence. Tennessee Republicans showing us who they are.
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Post by onelasttime on Apr 6, 2023 23:33:11 GMT
The Democratic Politicians are not perfect by any means but they have never stooped to the level we are seeing on the state and federal level by the current crop of Republicans.
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Post by revirdsuba99 on Apr 6, 2023 23:51:38 GMT
Showing their true colors.. They can manage to get along with a white woman, but not a black man! Yup! I was just about to say the same thing. It's not a coincidence. Tennessee Republicans showing us who they are. She herself said it.... Gloria Johnson..
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Post by onelasttime on Apr 7, 2023 0:00:01 GMT
So according to this fool the protest that included the three legislators in question was all about them throwing a temper tantrum and seeking attention….
Boy this country is a mess.
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Post by onelasttime on Apr 7, 2023 0:02:08 GMT
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Post by onelasttime on Apr 7, 2023 0:06:17 GMT
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Post by SAHM wannabe on Apr 7, 2023 0:06:57 GMT
Absolutely disgusting.
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Post by Scrapper100 on Apr 7, 2023 0:19:43 GMT
Did all three do the same thing? Maybe she did less than the men did? I doubt it but just in case. I at one point that TN might be a nice place to retire but it’s out of the running, same with Colorado and Arizona, Tx and FL were never considered.
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Post by Darcy Collins on Apr 7, 2023 0:26:11 GMT
Did all three do the same thing? Maybe she did less than the men did? I doubt it but just in case. I at one point that TN might be a nice place to retire but it’s out of the running, same with Colorado and Arizona, Tx and FL were never considered. Why's Colorado out of the running? Despite the Boebert stain the state has moved from purple to pretty solidly blue in last few years. I'm not in Grand Junction so have no clue what those folks are thinking, but rest of state is pretty reasonable.
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Post by Darcy Collins on Apr 7, 2023 0:28:37 GMT
I haven't been able to watch live, can someone give any kind of summary on why 2/3 were expelled and one wasn't. The optics were already bad, and now they're straight up terrible.
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Post by aj2hall on Apr 7, 2023 0:36:54 GMT
Maybe the woman, Gloria Johnson, didn't speak? The cynical part of me thinks it was purely based on race. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/06/tennessee-democrats-expulsion/Jones, who held a sign that read “Protect kids, not guns,” led the crowd on the chamber balcony, shouting “No action, no peace!” into a megaphone. Afterward, Pearson spoke through the megaphone about gun violence and chanted, “Enough is enough.”“There comes a time when you have to do something out of the ordinary,” Jones tweeted later that day. He added that the lawmakers “could not go about business as usual as thousands were protesting outside demanding action.”After the vote that allowed Johnson to remain in the House, reporters asked why she thought she was spared after Jones was ousted. Johnson, who is White, responded: “It might have to do with the color of our skin.” Jones is of Black and Filipino descent, and Pearson is Black.I thought this was interesting. Both of the men, I think are from solidly blue districts, so I don't think the Republican move was about gaining seats. I think they have a super majority anyway. County and city-level officials will select replacements to serve until the next regularly scheduled election in August 2024, said Carrie Russell, a political science senior lecturer at Nashville’s Vanderbilt University. The expelled lawmakers will be able to run for reelection at that time, she said.Bob Mendes, an at-large member of the Nashville Metropolitan Council, tweeted Thursday night that a meeting has been set for Monday to fill Jones’s seat. “I will vote to name Justin Jones back into the State House to represent my constituents,” Mendes tweeted.
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Post by onelasttime on Apr 7, 2023 0:40:19 GMT
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Post by onelasttime on Apr 7, 2023 0:44:23 GMT
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Apr 7, 2023 0:51:20 GMT
The way they spoke to Pearson told me all I needed to know about why they expelled them.
I wasn’t able to listen to the whole thing but i did hear a Republican stand up for Gloria Johnson. Sounds like she has been in the legislature awhile while the others are new. If anything I would think she would be more “guilty” because she was more familiar with the rules of “decorum”. One was just sworn in on March 27.
ETA that the Washington post has the whole thing on YouTube. It starts at about 4 hrs 15 min. So far I just got to the point where they are questioning Justin Jones. But his opening 20 min was good.
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Post by onelasttime on Apr 7, 2023 3:33:57 GMT
“Statement from President Joe Biden on Expulsion of Tennessee Lawmakers for Acting on Gun Safety”
Last week, three more students and three school officials were gunned down in yet another tragic mass shooting in Nashville. On Monday, 7,000 Tennesseans, many of them students, marched to their state capitol to call on their lawmakers to take action and keep them safe. Instead, state Republican lawmakers called votes today to expel three Democratic legislators who stood in solidarity with students and families and helped lift their voices. Today’s expulsion of lawmakers who engaged in peaceful protest is shocking, undemocratic, and without precedent. Rather than debating the merits of the issue, these Republican lawmakers have chosen to punish, silence, and expel duly-elected representatives of the people of Tennessee. A strong majority of Americans want lawmakers to act on commonsense gun safety reforms that we know will save lives. But instead, we’ve continued to see Republican officials across America double down on dangerous bills that make our schools, places of worship, and communities less safe. Our kids continue to pay the price. Congress must ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines, require safe storage of firearms, eliminate gun manufacturers’ immunity from liability, and require background checks for all gun sales, and state officials must do the same.”
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Post by Bridget in MD on Apr 7, 2023 11:57:39 GMT
Did all three do the same thing? Maybe she did less than the men did? I doubt it but just in case. I at one point that TN might be a nice place to retire but it’s out of the running, same with Colorado and Arizona, Tx and FL were never considered. Supposedly she didn't touch the bullhorn or hold a sign, so she didn't protest as hard as the others. I am in disbelief with what I witnessed yesterday.
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Post by Bridget in MD on Apr 7, 2023 11:58:33 GMT
Also, now, they can either appoint someone, leave the seat vacant and there will be a special election the taxpayers will pay for.... and both men can be voted BACK into their seat. how fucked up is that!!!
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Post by kmcginn on Apr 7, 2023 13:39:09 GMT
We should not fool ourselves into thinking this was about breaking house rules.
This was about - and ONLY about - racism and White Supremacy. That became obvious when she was saved because of the color of her skin.
Those two young black men got ousted because they spoke out and the Old White Men are afraid of them. How dare a black man have the audacity to speak up for their constituents! She's just a woman. She can't hurt them!
This is dispicable and TN should be very ashamed!! I'm embarrassed this can happen in this country! Notice I said embarrassed, not surprised!
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Post by katlady on Apr 7, 2023 16:35:40 GMT
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