Why this TN GOP leader says his Democratic colleagues were expelled

Tennessee GOP Caucus Chair Rep. Jeremy Faison speaks with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, Sara Sidner and Van Jones about the vote that the state House of Representatives undertook to expel two Democratic members. A third representative evaded expulsion by a single vote. #CNN #News

[Caliboyk]

Yeah a “Rich History” full of discrimination and racism. He forgot that part.

[Dvco]

*"The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it."*
Orwell

[commandershepard]

"It's easier to fool people than it is to convince them they've been fooled."

-Mark Twain

[k.ferguson]

"How DARE they disrupt us doing NOTHING!"

[thomasshoener]

January 6, 2022, as reported "Jeremy Faison, a member of Tennessee's House of Representatives, was ejected from a high school basketball game this week and attempted to pants a referee.

Faison, whose son plays for Lakeway Christian Academy, was unhappy with a foul call. He got into a debate with the official, Paul Pendleton, and tried to pull one of his pant legs down before leaving the court."

Rules. Decorum. Important stuff. Of course, he had greater cause to to try to pull down the pants of a ref he deemed to make a bad call at a basketball game than anyone who felt a tad miffed at mass murder.

Just so we understand who we are dealing with.

[ew]

What a sad day for our country this takes us back to the lunch counter days. We need to hear both sides Van was right they didn’t take any steps they went straight to removing them

[cynthiathomas]

Tennessee stands out, not for solving the problems the citizens are concerned about, but for silencing their representatives.

[ballerbf]

“Tennessee is one of the most important states in America”

Tells me everything I need to know about the reality he lives in…

[jessiejoseph]

Mr. Faison, if you expressed the same level of outrage that 6 people have just been murdered in your town as you have against the TN Three, you all would have been on same page. It sounds like you are jealous as hell of their intelligence, integrity, sense of duty, eloquence, leadership and charisma.

[brianag]

Good job, Van Jones! I wish one of you would have asked him about MTG’s behavior during the State of the Union. He would probably defend that inappropriate behavior.

[jesb]

Those children will never forget this, and how they were made to feel. They will remember and they'll be old enough to vote very soon.

[sharonwilliams]

GOP word salad BS 🥗 he could not even give a plain explanation. No I call it racism and I stand with the students of Tennessee ❤

[mv]

This Man is a smoke screen... let him trade one of his kids if he feels that strong ....

[Boomras]

When an individual identifies as a Republican, know that you are interacting with an absolute horror of a human being.

[roundtwo]

The real question is, "Why have the TN state congress NOT been listening to these TN state Representatives before this protest? Why are they consistently ignoring their colleagues and their constituents cries for help?"

[maguedmikhail]

what a lesson TN students have learned from their State House!

[tymikac]

So someone should let him know that the events that occurred was streamed live…. We saw everything and his account of those events doesn’t match!

[calliegauldsheher]

So his final words were “we expelled them, because they have the people of Tennessee behind them and now he and other Republicans have less power.” Got it. Tennessee get more fired up and keep being strong! Stand with the Tennessee 3

[susanteeter]

Hope he's trying to convince himself cause he ain't convincing anyone else.

[breathnow]

No answer to Van's question..why not go to the Ethics committee?