Tennessee House expels Democrat for gun-control protest
The vote to oust Rep. Gloria Johnson came after a previous vote to expel Rep. Justin Jones. A vote against the third lawmaker, Rep. Justin Pearson, was upcoming. The expulsions are extraordinary moves the chamber has used only a handful times since the Civil War.NASHVILLE, Tenn.
“We are losing our democracy. This is not normal. This is not OK," Pearson told reporters. The three"broke a House rule because we’re fighting for kids who are dying from gun violence and people in our communities who want to see an end to the proliferation of weaponry in our communities. And that leads to our expulsion? This is not democracy.”
“The trauma on those faces, you will never, ever forget. I don’t want to forget it,” she said. That is why she stands"with my other colleagues who are tired of having their voices cut off when we are trying to speak about violence in our classrooms, violence in our churches, violence in our restaurants and our grocery stores.”
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