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Beau of The Fifth Column

Let's talk about Tennessee sending a message to Nashville....

Beau of The Fifth Column

Beau of The Fifth Column

Society & Culture

4.8965 Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Let's talk about Tennessee sending a message to Nashville....

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0:00.0

Well, howdy there, internet people, it's Bo again.

0:03.0

So today we are going to talk about Tennessee's special election

0:07.8

and the results related to the Tennessee three.

0:19.2

For those who may not remember that whole situation and what occurred, it was kind of big news at the time, the Republican-dominated legislature up there in Tennessee. They decided

0:26.5

that there were three people that were elected by the people of Tennessee to be in the

0:31.6

state legislature, but the rulers of Tennessee to be in the state legislature but the rulers of Tennessee

0:34.9

those people Republicans you know who don't care about the republic

0:38.1

representative democracy all that stuff they decided they wanted to expel them. And then when it came time to take the

0:45.9

vote, they expelled the two young black men and did not expel the white woman.

0:51.0

Shock, right? I know you're super surprised by that the message they

0:56.6

were trying to send was incredibly clear you uppity folk better stay in your

1:02.1

place you uppity folk better stay in your place.

1:04.0

Okay, so they were expelled, leaving, I don't know, more than 100,000 people in Tennessee without representation for a minute or two, but those areas,

1:16.6

they decided to appoint the people who were expelled, Justin Pearson and Justin Jones, right back to their seats.

1:25.0

So they were interim.

1:27.0

But because they were expelled, there had to be a special election.

1:31.0

And now we are going to discuss the results. special election.

1:33.0

and now we are going to discuss the results of that special election.

1:37.0

Justin Jones, he won his election with almost 78% of the vote.

1:48.0

That is a landslide by any definition.

1:52.0

There's no other way to frame that. That is a landslide. The only way you could

1:58.1

make it appear as if it wasn't a landslide is to compare it to Justin Pearson's win because he won with almost

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