And it’s only the first day!
Jeff Woods covers the start of the new legislative session in his usual no-nonsense style:
Tennessee Senate Republicans kicked off the new session in a partisan way today, ramming through legislation to postpone an obvious good-government election reform that once enjoyed broad support from both political parties.
Republicans beat back a slew of Democratic amendments, and the Senate voted 22-10 to delay implementation of the Tennessee Voter Confidence Act until the 2012 elections…
The amount of misinformation being touted as fact on the floor of the Senate by proponents of the delay bill was mind boggling, like Senators had fingers in their ears going “la-la-la-i’m-not-listening” for the last 6 months.
