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The Center Square [By Jon Styf] –
Metro Nashville is sending Justin Jones back to Tennessee’s House of Representatives.
Without objection, the council suspended its rules to immediately nominate and approve Jones to fill the District 52 seat as Jones sat in the gallery.
“This afternoon’s vote is unprecedented,” Nashville Mayor John Cooper said. “But so were the actions [of the Legislature].”
Jones was nominated by Council Member Delishia Porterfield, who ran against Jones in the Democratic primary for the seat, and then approved Jones to fill the seat by a 36-0 vote.
“We are restoring the political voice of the 70,000 people of District 52,” Porterfield said.
Jones was removed from his seat with a 72-5 vote along with Rep. Justin Pearson, D-Memphis, in a marathon House session on Thursday that lasted 10 hours. Rep. Gloria Johnson, D-Knoxville, narrowly missed dismissal.
Memphis plans to hold a special meeting Wednesday to potential nominate Pearson to fill his former seat.
The pair were dismissed after walking to the front of the House during session on March 30 and chanting with protesters before Jones took out a bullhorn and chanted with members of the public in the balcony.
The gun control protest happened following a shooting on March 27 at Nashville’s Covenant School that left three students and three staff members along with the shooter dead.
About the Author: Jon Styf, The Center Square Staff Reporter – Jon Styf is an award-winning editor and reporter who has worked in Illinois, Texas, Wisconsin, Florida and Michigan in local newsrooms over the past 20 years, working for Shaw Media, Hearst and several other companies. Follow Jon on Twitter @JonStyf.
7 Responses
Oh please treat me like a five-year-old and make me understand how a city council can override the will and votes of the State’s General Assembly.
The Tennessee legislature should take funding issues with Nashville serious and take long times to investigate any possible liberal link.
Nashville politics is liberal and always has been they have gone even further, they are Socialist pandering to the woke agenda in this Country. God have mercy on Nashville.
WELL said all you have to do these days is play the race card, and get a bunch of liberal protester’s to yell and shout. AND you win the day, they all should be voted out
No you are wrong. God please punish these people so they can see the error of their ways.
Sure, the prime S.L.A. member is back. What about all the “good” (non protesting) people of Tennessee thrown out of the gallery because of him and his reprobate’s that Thursday. They were disenfranchised. Denied the right to see their Representatives conduct the people’s work. Many traveled from far away and may never be able to attend a session again. Who reinstates their rights?
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When U confront a bully they don’t know how to respond!
The Democrats have written the “New Rules” that Conservatives and Republicans need to follow.
Just More Liberal dealing under the table while the Republican’s sit around as usual and DO NOTHING!!