Tennessee state Reps. Gloria Johnson, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson were involved in a gun control protest last week following the Nashville school shooting. Now, the state House of Representatives is set to vote on whether to expel them.
before the vote that he and his colleagues were never allowed to speak out on behalf of their constituents, many of whom are demanding common sense gun reform, and dismissed the GOP member's arguments that they violated the chamber's rules of decorum.
She graduated from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville with an education degree and taught elementary and high school classes for several years. In addition to teaching, Johnson was active in local politics, helping with some field campaigns for Democratic elected officials, her bio said.She was Knox County Democratic Party chairwoman in 2009. Three years later, Johnson was first elected to the Tennessee House representing the 13th district, which covered Knoxville.
He began attending Fisk University in Tennessee in 2013 and continued to take part in political activism, including a 62-day sit-in outside the Tennessee State House in protest of the controversial Dakota Pipeline construction at Standing Rock. "There comes a time when you have to do something out of the ordinary. We occupied the House floor today after repeatedly being silenced from talking about the crisis of mass shootings,"Pearson, 27, was born and raised in Memphis and graduated from Bowdoin College in Maine with a degree in governmentPearson was part of several community organizing groups, including Memphis Community Against Pollution and the Poor People's Campaign: National Call for Moral Revival, his bio said.
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