Republicans Make Rock Stars Out of the ‘Tennessee Three’
After a grueling day in which she and two other Democratic state representatives faced trumped up expulsion votes, Rep. Gloria Johnson was asked why she was spared—while her fellow members of the ‘Tennessee Three’ were ultimately expelled from the state Assembly.
They had, after all, stood as one on the House floor in a call for meaningful gun reform in the aftermath of the Covenant School shooting in Nashville.
“It might have to do with the color of our skin,” Johnson told reporters outside the chamber.