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Tennessee’s GOP is Fascism in Action. So What’s Next?
Representative Maxwell Frost has some answers.
It’s been nearly impossible to miss the news coming out of Tennessee this week, and for good reason.
Dakin Andone, Ryan Young, Amy Simonson and Steve Almasy with CNN write:
“In an extraordinary, emotionally charged session marked by tense exchanges and punctuated by boos and chants from onlookers, Tennessee’s Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted to expel two Black lawmakers — but failed to oust a third representative — a week after the three Democrats led a gun reform protest in the chamber.
The crowd in the gallery erupted in boos and chants following both expulsions and loud cheers when the vote count turned up just short in the bid to oust Rep. Gloria Johnson. The session lasted seven hours.
The vote over rules violations for Jones split along party lines 72–25, while the vote in Pearson’s case was 69–26. Johnson’s vote was 65–30. Expulsion from the House requires a two-thirds majority of the total membership...”
Let’s be clear…
There can be no minimizing this, and what happened to these lawmakers and by extension their constituents in the state of Tennessee. We cannot allow the fact that GOP lawmakers…
