The Shelby County Board of Commissioners is to vote on reinstating Democratic Rep. Justin Pearson to the Republican-controlled state House in Nashville after his expulsion last week.
is expected to vote Wednesday on whether to reinstate Tennessee lawmaker Justin Pearson, who along with fellow Democrat Rep. Justin Jones gained national recognition and praise from the White House after being booted from the Republican-run state legislature for using a bullhorn and speaking out of turn on the House floor regarding gun control.
"Our focus continues to be on the six innocent lives that were brutally taken last week at the Covenant School, not those who have chosen to make this tragedy about themselves," the state House GOP added."It’s never been about change for the 3 #TennesseeMe members. Their only interest is being in the spotlight."
"We got a problem going on in Tennessee," Pearson, a 28-year-old environmental activist, said on The Breakfast Club radio show Tuesday."If you continue to erode democracy, you will reach a point when you will not have it." Reps. Justin Pearson, Justin Jones and Gloria Johnson have been dubbed by the White House as the"Tennessee Three."
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