Thursday, April 6, 2023

GET ME REWRITE: Batshit crazy Tennessee GOP fights crime and inflation with threat to expel 3 Democrats from House of Representatives

 
Top headline:   NBC, 10/16/2022
Bottom headline:  New York Times, 4/5/2023
As teenagers and demonstrators flooded the Tennessee state legislature last week to call for lawmakers to toughen access to guns after a deadly shooting at a Christian school, three Democrats headed to the well of the House chamber. 
Holding a hand-drawn sign calling to “protect kids, not guns” and speaking through a megaphone, State Representatives Justin Jones, Justin J. Pearson and Gloria Johnson led chants and called on their colleagues to pass stricter gun laws, forcing the legislative proceedings to a temporary halt. 
Now, in what would be an extraordinary act of retribution for the protest, Republicans are poised to vote on Thursday to oust the three Democrats from the General Assembly and carry out the first partisan expulsion in the state’s modern history.
According to Merriam-Webster, the first-known use of 'batshit', as in very excited, antry, or irrational:  CRAZY, occurred in 1971. 

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