The Dark Money Group last year spent millions of dollars on the Tennessee primary to lead Tennessee Governor Billley to a private school voucher victory. But instead of winning with the infusion of new supporters, the governor won the award from the old security guard.
For example, first-year Tazewell Republican Sen. Jessie Seal defeated veteran voucher opponent, Sen. Frank Niceley, in primary, and benefited from the Education Freedom Fund spending.
But when it was time to hit the button, Seal voted against the governor’s bill, joining Kingsport’s Bobby Hirschberger and Maryville’s Tom Hatcher, costing first-year students at $450 million. It is expected to grow every year.
Seal said Thursday that despite the dark money boost, he has no regrets about the vote.
“I’m all men,” Seal said. “And I represent the people in the 8th Senators District. That’s what I did. I’m not influenced by money or people.”
The Hirschberger campaign remains arrested in the midst of an investigation into election finance registration that summoned two officers of the Tennessee Conservative Political Action Committee, Thomas Dotwiler and Roberts Phillips III. Senator John Lundberg to determine whether he conspired with the Hirschberger campaign, which defeated the incumbent campaign.
Sen. Ken Yagger, chairman of the Senate Republican Caucus, filed an oath complaint last year claiming the campaign of East Tennessee conservative PAC and Rep. Diana Hirschberger. The American Policy Coalition has poured $600,000 worth of dark money into the race.
Despite three “no” votes, the Senate has been reeling against the bill, with veteran Republicans Paul Bailey, Rusty Crow, Todd Gardenhire, Ferrell Hale and Kelly Roberts supporting and against the bill. This led to the bill being passed 20-13. Leaders such as Lt. Col. Randy McNally, Jaeger and Senate Treasury Chairman Bo Watson undoubtedly led the charges.
As expected, the House told the story in its final 54-44 vote, but it is still questionable.
The Williamson County District 65 House Contest, one of the GOP primary spending barrages, voted for Lee’s voucher plan. Pro-Voucher’s Political Action Committee has spent nearly $1 million supporting primary and new lawmaker Lee Reeves as he defeated county commissioner Brian Beathard with 95 votes.
Reeves replaced Sam Whitson, a moderate Republican lawmaker who opposed Lee’s plan to provide more than $7,000 to students throughout the state to enroll in private schools. Reeves said Thursday that he supported a private school voucher plan before he entered the race.
“That’s probably why I got the support,” he said.
Crossville/Nashville House Speaker Cameron Sexton, Fayette County Rep. Ron Gantt, Englewood Rep. Mark Cochran and Collierville Rep. Kevin Vaughn turn votes from 2019 to 2019 opposition. So there have also been a few other important changes. Educational Savings Account Bill.
Readers may recall that former House Speaker Glenn Casada opened the vote for nearly 45 minutes and broke his tie as he worked for the Chamber of Commerce on another “yes.” The complaint about Casada led to an investigation by the FBI.
I might have been a noble protester like last time. . . Or I could join the process and help my people.
– Rep. Kevin Vaughn, R-Collierville
Sexton said Thursday he changed his mind about the voucher during the covid pandemic when schools were closed, districts wore masks and the school board refused to speak to his parents.
So that we don’t forget, the governor declared a state of emergency, encouraged schools to be closed, and the state purchased a boat with masks that is not worth plug nickel.
Vaughn, a former Collierville city board member, was staunchly opposed to vouchers six years ago, but Collierville’s $17 million fund for more special education funds and high-performance school districts. I decided to vote for a new plan so I could take advantage of it. Some people call it a “sweetener.”
“I could have been a noble protester like last time. I was the 48th ‘no’ last time. Or I could get involved in the process and help my people,” Vaughn said.
Cochrane felt the rage of the Pro-Voucher Group American Federation for Children in 2019, which could have influenced his decision this time. But perhaps he had a taste of House leadership as an assistant majority leader.
Rep. Jerome Moon attended the polls rather than votes when the vote was held last week, and he said his decision “equals to “no” and that his decision voted for the Education Savings Account Program in 2019 .
Six years ago, Republican Rep. Jason Zachary offered to change his stance in return for assurance that Knox County schools would not become voucher districts, and the vote was finally held at 50-48. Ta.
Casada would have had to vote that day if Covington Republican Rep. Debra Moody was away due to his mother’s death. She voted for the bill when she finally returned from the Senate.
Knoxville Republican Rep. Dave Wright was also ready to switch his vote, but he didn’t make it in time to resort to official tallies. Wright supported the bill this year.
Some onlookers say that legislative leaders wanted to keep this year’s voucher out of the way, so instead of letting them control dark out-of-state money that day, they can control key outcomes with their own cash . But taking into account the outcome, a few idiots spent millions of dollars other than threats. The rest of us remained in a new bureaucracy that says critics can run the nation off the “fiscal cliff.”
Well, that’s just money.
Who voted for Pearson?
Memphis Democrat Justin Pearson was caught off guard last week when he was recorded as a vote for the voucher bill. He was distraught when he learned what he had done.
In an official statement, Pearson said he left his house that day to support a family member who was hospitalized, and asked Rep. Ga Hardaway to vote for him “no” . Instead, Hardaway accidentally hits the “Yes” button because he was distracted by the conversation.
Pearson was shocked by the outcome of the vote and filed papers with the House Clerk and changed his vote to “no” for official records. He called the voucher bill “all just giveaways to billionaires and billionaires,” and called it “unjust.”
It is against the rules for one member to vote for another, but it is one trip to the chamber and we see that this rule is broken.
The bigger problem is that the clerk didn’t step back after recording the vote 54-44. Voting flipping has averted the constitutional crisis.
I’ll play with musk
Memphis’ minority leader Karen Camper said he was told Attorney General Jonathan Skulmetti and the District Attorney General Meeting that he was asked to investigate the new government efficiency of Elon Musk and President Donald Trump. They ask to determine whether it was incorrectly extracted from the federal payment system. and the Human Resources Bureau.
“Given Muss’s official statement regarding his desire to misuse data misuse due to his defaults on Muss’ debt and personal gain, he said he had planned on planning these systems. .
Sen. Jeff Yarbro and Nashville Democrat Jason Powell filed the lawsuit Thursday to bring bills to stop masks from blocking distributions of government funds, such as Social Security and Medicare benefits. (The bill has an acronym, and if the laptop enters it, it will run out of ink.)
Perhaps Republicans will leave it to the legislative scrap heap.
Anyway, people are the military forces that Venice’s dodges were the best officials on the land for over a century, elected in life, head of the ancient Venice Olihead, and previously authorized to operate outside the state. He was the leader of.
The biggest difference is that masks are not elected or vetted as our first prince.
“It’s time for us to stop /Hey, what’s that sound? /Everyone is watching what’s going on” *
*Being worthy of Buffalo Springfield
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