The gop dominated house voting to expel two Young Democratic lawmakers they taken part in a Gun Protest Jones RepresentativeJustin Pearson, both black were expelled from their seats representative johnson, who was white, was nearly spared it struck me. Surreal. Im like thats my home state legislature. I used to work in that building and now its being broadcast All Around The World i talked to my family who lives in tennessee, but i wasnt really on top of what was going on after the expulsion of that started paying a lot more attention i actually saw it as tennessee, again, being part of this national tug of war over the direction of the country and really over democracy itself. Expelling State Legislators is something that happens very rarely throughout American History presented also the gentleman shows no remorse. Its clear that he wants to be expelled. He and two other representatives effectively conducted a mutiny. A mutiny, which to this body into this state has been unknown in its 227 year history. You simply cannot allow one much less a group of members to hijack proceedings on the floor of the house. What that represented was more norm erosion, legislative norms of bipartisanship that you dont expel a legislator because they Say Something that you disagree with. And this showed again republicans sort of out in front on those eroding norms. So you have a Democracy Index and tennessee is dead last why is that . When we think about electoral democracy, what im measure, were talking about free and fair elections, where every individual voter has an equal say, an equal voice in didnt want the government does, and who is elected to office and so i use 51 different variables in this measure. All of this comes together to make tennessee the 50th out of 50 as of 2018 . The makeup of tennessees general assembly. It is a republican Super Majority, as you can see, that Super Majority holds true in the senate as well. Its becoming more and more difficult for democrats to be heard. You get to gerrymander. It gives one party control. So theres really no democracy with the super majorities we have in both the House Of Representatives and the state senate were able to pass legislation without actually negotiating with anyone on the other side of the aisle all right. Well left her a long time ago, coming back and say very different place i just dont understand how did things get to that point. I hope i can find out this week hey didnt see them get younger. I have done since, when they happen, were you surprised . No. I wasnt surprised. They wanted to make an example of you can not come in here and do can you walk me through how you go from having a bunch of kids in a Private School gunned down to two black lawmakers getting thrown out at the same like how did that happen . I think part of that goes back to the issue of the Super Majority the Super Majority can silence the minority and so the tennessee three felt like the only way for them to really be heard was to do something think completely an orthodox rather man, good to see you doing, sir. Well, welcome to the peoples house. That what it is hopefully its good to see you. Thank you for shining some light in here and whats going on. Welcome back to your home state the first time you came in his building, how did it feel to you . I mean, do remember my first we can legislature the Senate Republican leader said, i just want you to know that youre worthless. You dont along here. And that was my welcome to this place. He said to your face . To my face i dont think people understand the level of Youth Activism which you were part of. I was arrested when i climbed up and we cover the statue Nathan Bedford forrest, the first grand wizard of the kkk and enslave or competitive general with a black sheet to say that this is not a symbol we want in our state anymore. But theres another statue over here of the first black lawmaker who entered into this building, exactly 150 years ago samson cable, the only statue of a person color, maybe someday youll have many statues. You never know they were vandalize it how are you, sir . Great to see a man in this lesson, the flesh . Yes. And days back in the peoples House Jim Nefise in turn. So last time i was here, democrats ran this place i believe it or not so a lot has changed anything different in the state of tennessee . Probably one or two things are different than then at democrats are not in the majority, are not on the way to being speaker of the house. And the next couple of years here its a longterm game. I think one of the biggest changes are transitions that have happened is the radicalization of the conservatives and Republican Party. I think were seeing White Supremacy codified in legislation in ways that probably would not this case in similar ways, then those are fighting words, those its true proposed bill and soon as he legislature would make it illegal to display the pride flag and a Public School representative genome bolsa will introduce that bill if i were to categorize are representatives in the Republican Caucus in the house id say youd have the conservative members. Those for a more conservative, those who are most conservative. And so when were looking at legislation, it normally is debated between and among those different groups which those three camps to place yourself. I think im in the most conservative camp i dont know if you heard it van, but there was a recording released of their Caucus Meeting after our expulsion you just show the mentality they really saw this as a continuation of the civil war you hopefully, were at war for our josh well, what so because they get us the southeast game over have you got to protect is pretty republic here as ceo, noah. All Go To Hell Home ive heard that there was an audio that was leaked. I have not heard it, but i was in the Caucus Meeting, obviously tennessee does represent values that our country has held since its founding and so it cannot fall to the type of wokeness that weve seen go rampant and some of the other states that are not doing so well. So as goes tennessee in many respects, so goes the country they need everybody on the same page or as theyre going to lose what they believe is some war. I dont want to sugarcoat it. There was some wall political uses of power when the democrats controlled the state house. But it wasnt this sense of, we got to win at all costs because our entire culture is at stake i hope braces a white supremacist wow backup your walk that the greatest has ceased watson disrespect to say that i chose to move to fire gallery has got to stop justin jones, who was expelled, then reinstated on monday. He has great democracy will win in the in and Justin Pearson has been reinstated now by Tennessee County board do you feel like it can be effective lawmakers in an environment like this . A good lawmaker isnt the one that just gets a law passed. Because if we wanted to pass a law to allow everybody to get an ar 15 tomorrow that might pass was that make it a lawmaker ahead into the shoeshine place, an arcade where the siddons were that dissent is a message to the future. We may not have the votes. Not but each time we dissent, were letting the future know that theres still somebody who would not bow down to they were people who fought to make this state what it ought to be im just going to listen to you talk and ive just feel like, oh proud and also a little bit ashamed. Because i dont think that my generation kept that same fire we talked so much about ancestors. You think about what they endured cured, and what they were called, depths away from earth, capital i think part of why people are so impressed with you, young people is that you didnt back down tennessee is the birthplace of the ku klux klan but also the Nashville Student Movement so we have this dual history and i think thats really the history of america i really felt talking to those young justins like i was talking to civil rights leaders from im a century ago, these young people made themselves people who cannot, there must have been how i felt to talk to a john lewis agreed to me, jonathan, justin, young people telling them older generation they need to do better. You dont realize sometime how far away you veered from your own values or your own true north until somebody reasserts it. And when a young person reassert said its a specialty bracing, three to one charge. People but the good fight it together. You say in the right to major my goal is to make lines in the face. 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You had very Progressive Democrats from places like Urban Nashville and memphis this created a more moderate state with a divided state government. And the 2010 wave election, tennessee becomes unified republican for the First Time Since really the civil war and reconstruction it seems like 2010 was a really pivotal moment. Obama came in 2008 nashville there were some counties that are ruby red today that were actually obama counties and await here in our state we begin to see that shift after all of the Birth Certificate and the tea party and all of that hot, heated rhetoric if the message loud and clear they cant run that i believe those individuals who were on the fence or just holding on to the party just because theyd been democrats all these years. Were now aligning themselves more racially and culturally than they were with party identification. But it wasnt so much the views of tennessee has changed. I think you had the Democratic Party that was continuing to lurch towards the left. Ear. One i really wanted to talk to you. I am a republican. Good morning. Youre being seen as the party, then the radical proabortion anti gun, soft on national security. Jackson fire mental, i mean, to the point of extremism a lot of Southern Democrats now probably vote and identify more as republicans democrats become republicans, counties that theyve gone blue for obama and suddenly become red yes absolutely. Thats 2010 thats the worst year for yall to get work because then they got they got a chance to redistrict that gave the republicans the power to gerrymander everything, correct . Thats correct. Du they use that power . They use it. Do they abuse it . Abuse it was surgical precision. Tuesday nights results for decidedly republican. Its a Paradigm Shift in our state. Republicans now have a super twothirds majority in the house and senate. And in this moment, they start taking increasingly conservative Policy Changes around all sorts of policy areas. Guns, health care, abortion, but especially when it comes to Democratic Institutions like Voting Rights and distracting what happens in tennessee is going to happen in nearly any red controlled state after this time period. But tennessee is really leading the charge in many ways. I didnt learn to pass with a latenight deal. Tennessee lawmakers passed one of the countrys most restrictive Abortion Laws the first state in the country to restrict Drag Show Performances Hennessy Legislature has declared war on clear, painful in tennessee. The puzzle is, why do these parties stay in power and states when theyre passing things that are not all that popular. And part of that reason is restricting Democratic Institutions like Voting Rights, even with things like strict voter id law below average, wait times for inperson voting. Felon disenfranchisement in a series of other things that make it more costly and burdensome to vote a 60 of tennesseans and a president ial year will vote for the republican but if you look at the state house house, republicans have 76 of the seats. If you look at the state senate, republicans have been 2 of the scenes i think that creates a situation where people feel like its useless are, you visiting nashville as he from natural to yeah. Yeah. Did you might have we talked to you. Now. Come on. Come on. Yeah. Good guy grabbed i would say the word that comes along is asserting that just smear the disappear part of it is. Does your vote counts yeah. Does it make a difference, especially in Bigger Picture of tennessee . I already described he lives heres the redness of the red states. The rest of the red area authoritarian. The gerrymandering is definitely take nashville where when they drew the congressional lines instead of keeping a community together, they did whats called in the Redistricting Committee cracking and packing. So they crack nashville to create more republican districts and get rid of a potential democratic district this concept, political maps being drawn in a way that might tend to Favor One Party more than another has been something thats been going on since the founding of our country do you believe that . But for gerrymandering, you would be in the us Congress Absolutely i won 75 of the vote here in nashville i was doing well. But they deliberately created a district, had 14 counties because in two different states to make it impossible for you to win yeah, they crack nationally across every black community. The sounds too black vote and voices though the biggest city with a third of the economy doesnt have anybody from nashville in washington, dc this has been a democratic stronghold for close to 200 years and the three congressional districts that were made in nashville are all now represented by republicans you know, somebody like you should probably run for office ive heard that before what happens, to the golden boy of new jersey . I engaged in an affair with another man. Did you want to be outed . United states have scanned now with jake tapper, i Gotta Go To Therapy is if theyre having an interview with jake, tapper returns in two weeks on cnn how far would you go to control the fragrance in your home . Theres an easier way. Dry air wake vibrant with two times more natural Essential Oils for up to 120 days of amazing fragrance per dual pack. Now, thats a breath thats a fresh air wick. Ive always been prone to hair thinning. It was getting older. I because under lot of stress. 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