Tennessee

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Tennessee

There was to be an August 2017 gathering in Tennessee, to address Article V

2017/03/26

Wisconsin Republicans called for a Constitutional Convention.

"Experts at the CBPP (Center for Budget and Policy Priorities) have concluded that any convention call, no matter how narrowly written, could result in a "runaway" convention. Why? Because the Constitution doesn't provide any guidance or constraints on how a convention would operate once called. State politicians or Congress could write their own agenda and rules about the way delegates are chosen, the number of delegates allowed from each state, and whether or not a supermajority is required to approve amendments. Once in the room, delegates to a convention can ignore the limits that Kapenga and friends have attempted to place on them."

"ALEC dickheads tried this shit recently in Idaho, and it didn’t exactly go as expected, even in a state as red as Idaho. On March 1, 2017, it was defeated 11-24"

March 20, 2017

Article V of the U.S. Constitution lays out two paths for amending the document. The U.S. House and Senate, by a two-thirds vote of each chamber, can refer an amendment to the states. Two-thirds of state legislatures, or 34 states, also can request that Congress call a convention of the states. Both methods require at least 38 states to ratify an amendment before it can take effect.

The November election left the GOP in control of 33 legislatures, leaving them just one state short of being able to force a convention.


https://www.usnews.com/news/best-st...-moving-to-call-for-constitutional-convention


http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2017/07/30/staffers/512607001/

Which laws were drafted and pushed through Congress, under Sen. Lamar Alexander ?


Sen. Lamar Alexander, other Tennesseans in Congress lose staffers to Trump administration

Ten of Alexander’s staffers have departed for jobs in President Donald Trump’s administration since January. That’s roughly 13 percent of the entire staff of the Tennessee Republican’s Senate offices and a high-profile committee that he chairs.


Other members of Tennessee’s congressional delegation also have lost staffers to the administration. Six members of Sen. Bob Corker’s team have taken jobs in the administration. Reps. Marsha Blackburn and Scott DesJarlais each have lost one staffer to Trump’s team.

18 former staff members for Tennesseans in Congress are now working for the administration


Peter Oppenheim
Mary Sumpter Lapinski
Michael Platt Jr.
Katherine Preston Cory
Tom Ingram

There is a long list on propublica.org, of people that were hired to replace the staffers in the offices that Trump emptied, when he first entered the Oval office.

https://www.propublica.org/article/only-white-people-said-the-little-girl

 

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July 31, 2017

This weekend, American Renaissance magazine held its annual conference at a venue in Montgomery Bell state park, an hour west of Nashville, Tennessee.

Since 1994, the New Century Foundation has also played host to American Renaissance conferences, suit-and-tie affairs that attract a broad spectrum of participants from the racist right, including neo-Nazis, white supremacists, Ku Klux Klan members, Holocaust deniers and eugenicists. The conferences even have an international presence. In 2002, for instance, speakers included Nick Griffin, leader of the neofascist British National Party, and Bruno Gollnisch, who was then second in command of Jean Marie Le Pen's immigrant-bashing National Front in France.


https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/american-renaissance

Speaking to the Guardian, (Jared) Taylor said he himself had thought he was “just making a racket”. But now, he saw himself as part of a rising movement.

“We are in a state-run facility,” he said of the venue for his conference, “because most hotels would not withstand pressure [from protesters] of this kind.”


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/31/american-renaissance-conference-white-identity

Kim Schofinski, spokesperson for the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, said the state parks do not promote or endorse any form of hatred against any group.”

“The group requested conference space and rooms at our public park inn and conference center – a request we do not have legal authority to decline,” said Schofinski.

“It is our statutory obligation to act in accordance with the law and to provide public facilities to all individuals or groups regardless of their beliefs, as long as the individuals and groups follow the law and park policies while visiting Tennessee State Parks.”

http://www.tennessean.com/story/new...ists-toxic-ideology-unwelcome-park/104051466/


White Supremacists conference

"...every summer since 2012, the park has hosted one of the country's largest white supremacist conferences."

"The American Renaissance Conference, led by Jared Taylor, founder of the magazine of the same name, promises attendees a chance to "celebrate the shifting political tides and discuss the way forward for White America and the Western World" when it heads to the state park July 28 through July 30. "

https://patch.com/tennessee/nashville/white-supremacist-conference-returns-tennessee-state-park


American Renaissance and its parent organization, the not-for-profit New Century Foundation, are listed as white nationalist hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center. AmRen itself prefers the terms "racialist," "race realist," "Occidentalist" or "Identitarian."

The conference itself has been held since 1994, but after protests and petitions drove it from private hotels, the group settled in at the state park from 2012, as using a state-owned facility affords them First Amendment protections.

www.tennessean.com