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Tennessee Republicans TURN On Each Other As Secret Recording LEAKED
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6:51Now PlayingTennessee House Republicans caught on tape having a meltdown and proving their true feelings on the expelled lawmakers decision over Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson in a new leaked audio tape. John Iadarola and Brett Erlich break it down on The Damage Report.
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Leaked Audio Reveals Tennessee Republicans Are Pissed at Being Made to Seem 'Racist'
"As of this week, the two Black Democratic state legislators expelled from Tennessee’s state House over their protests for gun safety legislation have been reinstated to their seats. But the saga around the circumstances of their expulsion continues: On Thursday afternoon, the Tennessee Holler released leaked audio of an internal conversation among Tennessee Republicans confronting one of their colleagues for voting to expel Reps. Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, but not Rep. Gloria Johnson, a white woman who joined Jones and Pearson in their protests. Some members of the GOP were not pleased about these optics.
In the leaked audio, which seems to have been recorded shortly after the expulsion vote last week, Rep. Jody Barrett (R) explains why he voted to expel Jones and Pearson, but not Johnson. “I’m concerned I’m going to vote yes on a resolution that I know is wrong,” Barrett told his colleagues of his thinking at the time. “We didn’t establish that she did all that other stuff.” Barrett has previously explained his vote by claiming he “fully intended when I walked in the chamber to vote to expel all three,” but upon reading the resolution, noted that “the two gentlemen” (Jones and Pearson) were “going in and out of the room during the session…and trying to incite the crowd,” while he claimed Johnson didn’t do this."
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