Republican politics in Tennessee was already a mess. As the legislative session ends, conditions in Nashville have gone from bad to worse. (via MaddowBlog)
And while that was true, conditions had not yet reached rock bottom.of the Tennessee House’s Justice Committee — because he’d called for “hanging on a tree” as a possible method of capital punishment.A state lawmaker in Tennessee resigned suddenly for an ethics violation that became public Thursday, two weeks after he joined fellow Republicans in expelling two Black Democratic legislators for protesting in support of gun control on the state House floor. Rep.
Though the ethics panel’s findings did not provide the public with specific details, the AP report added that Campbell’s resignation “came hours after a Nashville TV station confronted him about sexual harassment allegations involving legislative interns.”on Thursday, adding: “If I choose to talk to any intern in the future, it will be recorded.
In the process, the GOP majority ignored the pleas of “hundreds of students, parents and teachers” who “marched to the Tennessee State Capitol, day after day, demanding a ban on assault weapons and action on gun control.” The ignominious end of the legislative session does not, however, necessarily mean that the scrutiny will disappear. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and several of his Senate Democratic colleagues last week
to investigate the recent expulsions of two members of the Tennessee Three to determine whether Republicans violated civil rights laws.
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