On Thursday, Popular Information reported that Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R) secretly purchased a $600,000 home in Nashville. Sexton and his family live in the Nashville home year-round, raising questions about whether Sexton can legally represent Crossville, a community that is two hours from the state capital. Sexton also has claimed tens of thousands of dollars in per diem reimbursements from taxpayers that are intended for representatives that live 50 miles or more from Nashville.
As a Nashville resident, this is particularly rich. Sexton is part of the supermajority gang that can’t say enough bad things about this city (as a city). Yet, he is LIVING here! They also can’t stand that the city has its own ideas about all the cultural issues that seem to drive them crazy. As a result the Republicans are now reducing the size of our Metro council, they are taking over our airport, and they are taking control of our sports authority boards. AND, they are outlawing citizen oversight of police, again, imposing their will on this city. Because they can. All of this came to a head when the Metro Council passed on hosting the Republican Convention in 24. My question: if you hate this city so much why live here? If you hate this city so much, why not have your convention in some other Tennessee town like Crossville or Johnson City?? Why do you Republicans, who seem to love rural America more than urban, chose to have your meetings in… cities??
Kudos to PI, especially for the mentions and acknowledgement (finally!) at the national media level for breaking this story. Another interesting development I saw was a petition of almost 13K TN Christians to remove Sexton. I imagine news like that in the Bible belt makes waves.
Judd and the PI team keep landing the heavy body blows, this crook has backed up wobbly into the ropes and now the knockout gets more likely. Don't want to be presumptuous but I strongly suspect Judd is going to need to get his TV interview game sharp. Can't be long before networks are calling to spotlight the face of the journalistic ninjas on the verge of ousting a crooked fascist.
To me, this “Under the Tennessee Constitution, if Sexton does not live in Crossville, he can not legally represent Crossville” is the whole story & Sexton can’t lie his way out of it.
Is he representing Crossville when he only “visits” on weekends? Nope. His neighbors in both cities can account for his comings & goings so that was a stupid lie to tell. He’ll be busted on that too.
On top of not paying property taxes (Dems need to make an ad about it) at either location, Dems should also blow up the total amount he’s stolen from his constituents and citizens of Tennessee by taking the larger per diem of $313. Put the grand total over his time in their face and in his face and see how they feel about it. ..
The criminality and hypocrisy of "RW'z" like this, know no boundaries. These are the miscreants bent on destroying our country and we cannot let them win!
Imagine the outsized hue and cry if this crook had a "d" after his name.
I know, due to Republican extreme gerrymandering, it will take a few cycles to bring Tennessee Dems back to competitive strength, but for today, thanks to this excellent research and reporting, I am pausing to microwave a bag of butter-flavor.
This is like when Ron Howard's narrator comes in on "Arrested Development" to immediately dispel any notion that the character speaking is being truthful. On the show, it's funny. In real life, Sexton is a heel and I'm sure not laughing.
Judd, as a Tennessee native and a registered Republican I thank you for bringing to light the breaking story and most importantly the continued factual follow-ups.
ANY politician no matter which party they represent should be held accountable for acts of fraud, neglect, theft, corruption and thwarting of Democracy. I know of some very decent Republicans, Liberals and Democrats. On the surface it often appears that the riff-raff from each party is overwhelming present and at the forefront of their parties... but I choose to believe that Americans as a whole are being enlightened as well as called upon to act and hold accountable those elected officials.
Thank you again for helping shed light on a tainted Tennessee legislature.
Now, if we could just do this to DeSantis. Guess that's why he signs bills into law at midnight, doesn't have press conferences, and is now charging for public records. Still gotta' tell you - I know what he did with CDR Maguire and Hurricane Ian at the Del Tura Shelter. The rapes, the spraying people in their cots with fungicides because of mold, detaining kids so they couldn't go to school. the deaths, and I'm not even gonna go into the rest of the ugliness. Let's just say - after reading the article about his time at Gitmo, I now understand how he could back the torture and abuse that went on at Del Tura. And those people are so terrified of being retaliated against that they won't talk to the lawyers down there - and the media won't cover it. So - I will continue to froth at the mouth and fight against his reign of terror in Florida.
His youngest child is enrolled in a "private Christian school" - who accepts tuition from a lying, cheating, thief. Assuming the child is in grade school; what a terrible role model they have for a father. And evidently the wife is fine with the cheating of and stealing from the TN taxpayers by spouse. "Family values" indeed...
As a Nashville resident, this is particularly rich. Sexton is part of the supermajority gang that can’t say enough bad things about this city (as a city). Yet, he is LIVING here! They also can’t stand that the city has its own ideas about all the cultural issues that seem to drive them crazy. As a result the Republicans are now reducing the size of our Metro council, they are taking over our airport, and they are taking control of our sports authority boards. AND, they are outlawing citizen oversight of police, again, imposing their will on this city. Because they can. All of this came to a head when the Metro Council passed on hosting the Republican Convention in 24. My question: if you hate this city so much why live here? If you hate this city so much, why not have your convention in some other Tennessee town like Crossville or Johnson City?? Why do you Republicans, who seem to love rural America more than urban, chose to have your meetings in… cities??
This! is what journalism is supposed to be!
Great work, Judd.
Kudos to PI, especially for the mentions and acknowledgement (finally!) at the national media level for breaking this story. Another interesting development I saw was a petition of almost 13K TN Christians to remove Sexton. I imagine news like that in the Bible belt makes waves.
Judd and the PI team keep landing the heavy body blows, this crook has backed up wobbly into the ropes and now the knockout gets more likely. Don't want to be presumptuous but I strongly suspect Judd is going to need to get his TV interview game sharp. Can't be long before networks are calling to spotlight the face of the journalistic ninjas on the verge of ousting a crooked fascist.
To me, this “Under the Tennessee Constitution, if Sexton does not live in Crossville, he can not legally represent Crossville” is the whole story & Sexton can’t lie his way out of it.
Is he representing Crossville when he only “visits” on weekends? Nope. His neighbors in both cities can account for his comings & goings so that was a stupid lie to tell. He’ll be busted on that too.
On top of not paying property taxes (Dems need to make an ad about it) at either location, Dems should also blow up the total amount he’s stolen from his constituents and citizens of Tennessee by taking the larger per diem of $313. Put the grand total over his time in their face and in his face and see how they feel about it. ..
Great reporting as usual!
The criminality and hypocrisy of "RW'z" like this, know no boundaries. These are the miscreants bent on destroying our country and we cannot let them win!
Imagine the outsized hue and cry if this crook had a "d" after his name.
I know, due to Republican extreme gerrymandering, it will take a few cycles to bring Tennessee Dems back to competitive strength, but for today, thanks to this excellent research and reporting, I am pausing to microwave a bag of butter-flavor.
Most, most grateful.
Schadenfreude?
(Wonder how he feels being in the hot seat?)
"Virtually nothing Sexton said is true."
This is like when Ron Howard's narrator comes in on "Arrested Development" to immediately dispel any notion that the character speaking is being truthful. On the show, it's funny. In real life, Sexton is a heel and I'm sure not laughing.
Republicans are greedy liars all of them
Judd, as a Tennessee native and a registered Republican I thank you for bringing to light the breaking story and most importantly the continued factual follow-ups.
ANY politician no matter which party they represent should be held accountable for acts of fraud, neglect, theft, corruption and thwarting of Democracy. I know of some very decent Republicans, Liberals and Democrats. On the surface it often appears that the riff-raff from each party is overwhelming present and at the forefront of their parties... but I choose to believe that Americans as a whole are being enlightened as well as called upon to act and hold accountable those elected officials.
Thank you again for helping shed light on a tainted Tennessee legislature.
Now, if we could just do this to DeSantis. Guess that's why he signs bills into law at midnight, doesn't have press conferences, and is now charging for public records. Still gotta' tell you - I know what he did with CDR Maguire and Hurricane Ian at the Del Tura Shelter. The rapes, the spraying people in their cots with fungicides because of mold, detaining kids so they couldn't go to school. the deaths, and I'm not even gonna go into the rest of the ugliness. Let's just say - after reading the article about his time at Gitmo, I now understand how he could back the torture and abuse that went on at Del Tura. And those people are so terrified of being retaliated against that they won't talk to the lawyers down there - and the media won't cover it. So - I will continue to froth at the mouth and fight against his reign of terror in Florida.
Go Judd GOOOOOOOO
Possible edit in the article. You say “Nashville condo,” when you may mean “Crossville condo. “
It occurs to me that , upon investigation, a much expanded list of potential problems would be seen throughout the political world.
Id like to say Republicans violate these policies repeatedly , but only because they’ve shown themselves to be
blatant liars.
Im sure there are also Democrats who have skirted the rules.
Who knew the Speaker, in the course of a racist tantrum , would also reveal himself to be a liar and a thief?
His youngest child is enrolled in a "private Christian school" - who accepts tuition from a lying, cheating, thief. Assuming the child is in grade school; what a terrible role model they have for a father. And evidently the wife is fine with the cheating of and stealing from the TN taxpayers by spouse. "Family values" indeed...
Judd, thanks for pursuing this story with the avidity of a bulldog. The only way we get rid of bad actors is one by one.