Rep. Gloria Johnson of ‘Tennessee Three’ officially launches 2024 Senate campaign
Johnson would have to survive a Democratic Primary before taking on incumbent Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn.
Johnson would have to survive a Democratic Primary before taking on incumbent Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn.
‘The biggest challenge for all superintendents is that this is yet again an unfunded mandate.’
The crowd, which included gun control advocates urging change in a Special Session after a deadly Nashville school shooting in March, shouted ‘fascists’ and ‘racists.’
‘At this point, the Senate haven’t put forth a single idea that’s theirs,’ House Speaker Cameron Sexton said.
Earlier this year, Tennessee’s GOP-dominated Statehouse refused to consider tightening the state’s relaxed gun laws.
Thursday’s election came as lawmakers are preparing to return to Nashville later this month for a Special Session to address possibly changing the state’s gun control laws.
‘You can’t expel a movement!’
‘We can create brighter tomorrows for our state so no other community has to endure the suffering.’
The investigation has run parallel to a new wave of public anger in the U.S. over gun violence.
But the measure has almost no chance of becoming law.