Last week, Tennessee House Speaker Cameron Sexton (R) led the charge to expel two members of the Tennessee House, Justin Jones (D) and Justin Pearson (D).
In a just world the people of Tennessee would rise up and throw this racist scoundrel out of office. But Tennessee is not a part of a just world, it is, and ever shall be, the Old Confederacy. That all said, perhaps a few citizens of the district in which he really resides could organize a bit of civil disobedience in front of his house. Maybe then he will move back to his stated home on the plantation, in 1845.
LoL. I would rent a tree or two from neighbors and put some 24 hour cameras on the cul de sac in Crossville in the Assembly off season and have an investigator locate his place in Nashville area and do the same there.
It wouldn't take much to discern where he was living. The NSA watches people of interest all the time with Satellites and ground cameras. I see this as protecting democracy.
Cameron Sexton is not the problem, he is just a consequence of a bigger problem which is the South’s return to the “Lost Cause” is the problem. From Arkansas to Florida, Texas to Georgia, the GOP has put on their white robes and hoods and lit their tiki torches. The only thing that will change this is voters. As long as voters of all colors do not show up at the ballot box, this will continue. As long as there has been an America there has been angry people whose lives did not turn out the way they dreamed and can’t abide someone else, anyone else doing better. It used to be these folks were irrelevant because they usually got drunk, passed out and never voted. As Edmund Burke said “the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing”.
Yes, terrible things happen when good folks don’t vote. But before blaming those who don’t get out and vote, remember that Tennessee is one of the worst voter-suppressed states in the country. State laws and localized white supremacy make it extremely difficult, often impossible, for citizens who are Black, Latinx, indigenous, young, disabled, or low-wage to vote and have their vote counted. We need to make it as easy and convenient for marginalized people to vote as it is for cishet white middle class people like me. (And not for nothing, I recently moved here, and TN’s whacko version of motor voter is making it hard for me to register!)
Exactly my thoughts in response to encouraging more Democratic voters in the south. Voter suppression, purging voter rolls, gerrymandering, and the gaming of the system as reported here.
The greater problem is 43 state legislatures are controlled by Republicans. These voter suppression laws, Gerrymandering are controlled by the foxes in the hen house making the rule by GOP vice grip harder to stop.
Facts that you present must not be silenced by billionaire overlords. I share links to your articles daily to social media AND to friends. Every one of your subscribers needs to amplify your writing. Again, I thank you for the information we need.
Anyone who knows that area knows he wouldn’t be caught dead living in Crossville. Nothing against the lovely people of Crossville but this guy is a snob. It’s ridiculous and I hope there comes a day where he has to pay that back . 🤦🏼♀️
Thanks again for a *factual* and excellent job of reporting. I hope this piece goes national and the voting public hears about another corrupt criminal republican politician. May they all eventually be voted out of office.
Also, we all must make sure your work is read by as many people as possible. I will do my best to facilitate this.
Hey, GREAT reporting! This is absolutely fabulous work. Well written, professional, JOURNALISM. THANK YOU!
If I could, I'd pay to send your kids to college and buy you coffee for a year. Alas, I'm not in that position to support your work but I sure can go back on Twitter and Tweet my little heart out and Social Media my heart out for you. Well done my Friends... well done!
Agreed, but only one of these three is from Memphis. The "Memphis 3" were the boys who went to jail for murder because of Satanic Panic BS in the 90s, iirc
I'm not sure what, if any, meaningful consequences Sexton will face related to these allegations. It is reassuring, though, that he appears to be full of you-know-what on multiple levels.
I live in west central rural Wisconsin. Our member of the WI State House of Representatives did this - living in a place NOT in his district but he kept ownership of the original house. His buddies in the House, who love Gerrymandering, just re-did his District by adding the townships in the County to the north that include his new house. So, now he's legal. BTW - he is not the only WI Legislator who didn't live in his District. Now he can sell the original house.
Same with James Comer, Congress critter from Kentucky’s first district, which covers the western part of the state. Thanks to gerrymandering in 2021, he can now live in the suburbs of Lexington, where he already had a second home, and where his kids have been going to school. Now he can give up the old house and stay in the tip of the long tail on his district.
The RW party of criminals continues to wear the clothing of a sheep, piously claiming to be for "law and order."
But all we the people appear to receive from these thieves are more laws and disorder, while they're breaking real laws, getting paid to do it, simultaneously denying any hint of impropriety. Sheesh.
We had someone where I live who won their race but was shown to be out of district. It’s a crime where I live. She was charged accordingly and stripped of the job by the Court after it was proven she lived out of district. The Central Committee of the political party that the woman belonged to then voted on several vetted people who put their names in to fill the position. The person who got the most votes from Central Committee filled the position. End of story.
Rules for thee but none for me. The Republican's mantra.
In a just world the people of Tennessee would rise up and throw this racist scoundrel out of office. But Tennessee is not a part of a just world, it is, and ever shall be, the Old Confederacy. That all said, perhaps a few citizens of the district in which he really resides could organize a bit of civil disobedience in front of his house. Maybe then he will move back to his stated home on the plantation, in 1845.
LoL. I would rent a tree or two from neighbors and put some 24 hour cameras on the cul de sac in Crossville in the Assembly off season and have an investigator locate his place in Nashville area and do the same there.
It wouldn't take much to discern where he was living. The NSA watches people of interest all the time with Satellites and ground cameras. I see this as protecting democracy.
Cameron Sexton is not the problem, he is just a consequence of a bigger problem which is the South’s return to the “Lost Cause” is the problem. From Arkansas to Florida, Texas to Georgia, the GOP has put on their white robes and hoods and lit their tiki torches. The only thing that will change this is voters. As long as voters of all colors do not show up at the ballot box, this will continue. As long as there has been an America there has been angry people whose lives did not turn out the way they dreamed and can’t abide someone else, anyone else doing better. It used to be these folks were irrelevant because they usually got drunk, passed out and never voted. As Edmund Burke said “the only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing”.
Yes, terrible things happen when good folks don’t vote. But before blaming those who don’t get out and vote, remember that Tennessee is one of the worst voter-suppressed states in the country. State laws and localized white supremacy make it extremely difficult, often impossible, for citizens who are Black, Latinx, indigenous, young, disabled, or low-wage to vote and have their vote counted. We need to make it as easy and convenient for marginalized people to vote as it is for cishet white middle class people like me. (And not for nothing, I recently moved here, and TN’s whacko version of motor voter is making it hard for me to register!)
Exactly my thoughts in response to encouraging more Democratic voters in the south. Voter suppression, purging voter rolls, gerrymandering, and the gaming of the system as reported here.
The greater problem is 43 state legislatures are controlled by Republicans. These voter suppression laws, Gerrymandering are controlled by the foxes in the hen house making the rule by GOP vice grip harder to stop.
Facts that you present must not be silenced by billionaire overlords. I share links to your articles daily to social media AND to friends. Every one of your subscribers needs to amplify your writing. Again, I thank you for the information we need.
Done and done, and done. If it reaches everyone in my political FB groups, it will be a quarter million sets of eyeballs.
YES!!
Anyone who knows that area knows he wouldn’t be caught dead living in Crossville. Nothing against the lovely people of Crossville but this guy is a snob. It’s ridiculous and I hope there comes a day where he has to pay that back . 🤦🏼♀️
Plus, why did he "move" to a retirement community? Is he not still collecting a paycheck?
This is why The Onion isn’t funny anymore - political reality is more absurd than anything you could make up...
Some legislators are more equal than others, don’t you know. Keep a light on this!
Thanks again for a *factual* and excellent job of reporting. I hope this piece goes national and the voting public hears about another corrupt criminal republican politician. May they all eventually be voted out of office.
Also, we all must make sure your work is read by as many people as possible. I will do my best to facilitate this.
Yes, WAPO anyone listening? Hope so. Great reporting Judd as always.
Hey, GREAT reporting! This is absolutely fabulous work. Well written, professional, JOURNALISM. THANK YOU!
If I could, I'd pay to send your kids to college and buy you coffee for a year. Alas, I'm not in that position to support your work but I sure can go back on Twitter and Tweet my little heart out and Social Media my heart out for you. Well done my Friends... well done!
Get this to the Memphis 3
Agreed, but only one of these three is from Memphis. The "Memphis 3" were the boys who went to jail for murder because of Satanic Panic BS in the 90s, iirc
Minor point but they were the “West Memphis Three” and that is in Arkansas not Tenn. I was living there at the time… so glad to out of the South
Thank you, my memory of the HBO documentary was incomplete
I'm not sure what, if any, meaningful consequences Sexton will face related to these allegations. It is reassuring, though, that he appears to be full of you-know-what on multiple levels.
I live in west central rural Wisconsin. Our member of the WI State House of Representatives did this - living in a place NOT in his district but he kept ownership of the original house. His buddies in the House, who love Gerrymandering, just re-did his District by adding the townships in the County to the north that include his new house. So, now he's legal. BTW - he is not the only WI Legislator who didn't live in his District. Now he can sell the original house.
This may be precisely why they so resist judicial review of gerrymandered maps. It reveals their fraud.
Same with James Comer, Congress critter from Kentucky’s first district, which covers the western part of the state. Thanks to gerrymandering in 2021, he can now live in the suburbs of Lexington, where he already had a second home, and where his kids have been going to school. Now he can give up the old house and stay in the tip of the long tail on his district.
Horrible!!!
Thank you!
I know the Tennessee legislature doesn't care about corruption but let's see if anyone moves to expel him
The RW party of criminals continues to wear the clothing of a sheep, piously claiming to be for "law and order."
But all we the people appear to receive from these thieves are more laws and disorder, while they're breaking real laws, getting paid to do it, simultaneously denying any hint of impropriety. Sheesh.
"Do as I say, not as I do".
#republicanmotto
We had someone where I live who won their race but was shown to be out of district. It’s a crime where I live. She was charged accordingly and stripped of the job by the Court after it was proven she lived out of district. The Central Committee of the political party that the woman belonged to then voted on several vetted people who put their names in to fill the position. The person who got the most votes from Central Committee filled the position. End of story.