Speaker Sexton skirting the rules to ram through Gov Lee’s school choice bill.
In K-12 Subcommittee, HB1183 (the Governor’s school choice bill) passed with a roll call vote of 6-2, but it’s not that simple. There was an extra member of the committee, Speaker Pro Tempore Pat Marsh. The chairman of the committee allowed Rep. Marsh to sit and vote in the committee hearing as the Speaker’s designee. […]
Roll call votes defeated in the House.
As the 2024 legislative session convenes here in Tennessee, the House had an opportunity, by amending its rules, to introduce more transparency into the process. Rep. Bryan Richey submitted an amendment that would require a roll call vote in every committee hearing as bills make their way to the House floor. But the rules committee […]
Update on the Governor’s Special Session for Public Safety (Red Flag Laws).
Tennesseans across the state have advocated loudly that voters do not want this special session. Primarily, we do not want restrictions on our 2nd Amendment rights and we do not want to debate complex topics like mental health in the abbreviated course of 3 days. Fortunately, it seems that our advocacy has taken hold and […]
Largely partisan expulsions by a supermajority Republican House are not going to fair well for Tennessee.
All eyes have been on Tennessee in the wake of a recent school shooting that led to large demonstrations at the state’s Capitol culminating in the expulsion of two Democratic members of the House of Representatives. In the wake of tragedy and pain, Tennessee needed leadership, and there was none to be found. What we […]
A message for Cammie.
If there is one box you need to check as a candidate for office running as a Republican in the state of Tennessee, it is the pro-life box. And now, in a post-Roe v Wade legislative year, this is the first time that Republicans needed to stand firm in the defense of life. And they […]