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“If the polling of state legislators’ votes for president were allowed it would probably be a safe bet that the same individuals who voted to expel the two state representatives in Tennessee enthusiastically supported Donald Trump.
The double standard of accountability in politics is not new, but the sheer hypocrisy of so many legislators ignoring illegal, unconstitutional, democracy – defying antics of Trump, and his sycophantic cronies, and then punishing elected officials for expressing their outrage at the continuing murder of school children, is astounding.
If the expulsion of duly elected legislators is not reversed immediately, by a clamoring electorate or a court of law, then it will become the template for so many states that have elected majority right wing Republican legislatures, city councils, town committees and boards.
It is important to keep this story actively front and center in the news as other elected officials nationwide will follow suit and utilize arcane,or outdated, rules or regulations to expel or silence the opposition. Having been unsuccessful at defeating their opponents in the voting booth they can accomplish their objectives by threat of expulsion for existing rules, or creating new ones.
The result will be far worse than any voting suppression that is being implemented as expulsion will accomplish the same insidious objective.”-Betty Ussach, Dartmouth.
