i m justin j pearson and i m running for president of bsg. i want to bring together different voices, dissenting voices voices that may be more liberal and conservative in order that we can meet a point of the radical middle. fight for the lgbtq community fighting for those who are single mothers, fighting for those who are ostracized, fighting for everyone, my savior, my black jesus. they should investigate who put row gain in the memphis water supply. [laughter]. that transition would make kaitlyn jenner switch doctors. why did he do that? s incentivized. this week it was announceded that president biden instead of meeting victims families of the nashville shooting will meet with the state reps who protested inside the tennessee capitol. the lesson if only those families had hired acting coaches. of course it s easy to blame politicians for this behavior which is why i do blame this on
right. i think antonia hit the nail o the head the governor s not blind he s not lying to the politica winds. and look, i don t know tha there is a more enact politica body then the tennesse legislature for what they di to those two state reps. and in the wake of six peopl being he had killed in the cit of nashville - but i think that s right we should not minimize what th governor did and if he s really pushing - we should give - stephanie, but when governor lead at something like this, and if he really means that, he s going to push these people, we should give him all the encouragement we can that s not hard if somebody is doing something to change the rules, to make our kids safer, we will give them credit for that make no mistake. matt, let s talk about som democratic governors washington state governor ja inslee spoke tonight about the assault weapons ban that i headed towards his desk in washington watch this sometimes you have to mak progress state by state, not necessarily
do with this? where local reporters don t have a platform and the resources to report on things like this. it s a massive contributor. the average statehouse has three reporters covering it and the local and that s sort of the larger statehouse paper papers with statehouse bureaus. the local papers that serve smaller towns are just dying. we know that and those were the papers that would have covered. here s what your local state rep did or has been doing. you add those two things up in these places are largely anonymous. no one knows who their state reps are. they don t know what the state budget does. they don t know how that new law impacts them. and so it s really dangerous whenever you have a whole lot of power. in total anonymity and that s what the state has had become. so the shrinking of local media not again. the big papers have statehouse bureaus, but especially the small papers that would have given you coverage of that legislator from your district. those combined to be a
the way to our state reps that we are standing behind now and brynn, you wrote in the tennessean, quote, i have message for the members of the tennessee legislature. shame on you shame on you for spending time and taxpayer money on bannin books and drag, trying t rename streets in nashville an reducing the size of cit councils are these really the issue that are affecting tennesseean the most, while kids are dying in our schools brynn, has any republica member sat down with you t discuss this issue no, they haven t. i m from nashville, actually i ve lived here for almost all of my life and i have six generations o tennesseeans in my family. and not a single one has reached out to any of us t talk about what it is that w really want behind these issues. which, it s not anything radical it s common sense gun contro we want to stop people fro dying in our cities.
lives organizers fro vanderbilt university. you have both been organizin and protesting at the stat house since monday ezri, who are these protesters and what drives you to be there? yeah, absolutely. these protesters is a broa coalition of students across every single level o education. we have students as young as six years old coming out we have menace coolers highschoolers. and we also have universitie seen from across not only th city of nashville but also across the state we have busloads of students coming from memphis, fro knoxville, to support th representatives. and besides our students w have a coalition of parents an elected officials at every level, from school, boards all the way to our state reps that we are standing behind now and brynn, you wrote in the tennessean, quote, i have message for the members of the tennessee legislature. shame on you shame on you for spending time and taxpayer money on bannin books and drag, trying t rename streets in nashville an reduci