Ousted Tennessee Lawmakers Criticize GOP Lawmakers, Vow to Return to Their State House Seats

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : Pearson called it a "toxic work environment" while Jones said the House "is an institution filled with people who are more concerned about supporting the NRA and supporting the Second Amendment than it is protecting the First Amendment rights of children and teenagers to be able to come to the Capitol to advocate for gun violence prevention laws."
39% : Pearson said that "it has always been a toxic work environment to work in the Tennessee State Capitol, when you have people who made comments about hanging you on a tree and hanging Black people on a tree as a form of capital punishment, when you wearQAW@x a dashiki on the House floor, and a member gets up and they talk about your dashiki saying it's unprofessional.

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