Well folks, there is a new low in petty in the TN legislature. Going to take my time and get my thoughts and facts crystal clear before I fill you in. It is truly unbelievable...or not, if you hang around this building.
So I thought I would see how it played out, and it did just like I thought it would. The GOP is nothing if not predictable. Here is the story of a bill jacking...
A woman from upper East TN reached out to me in summer about a glitch in out of state teacher certification process. She made a lot of calls but wasn’t getting anywhere, not sure how she found me as I am not her Rep, but she did and we worked to put this legislation together.
She 1st taught in TN, but moved to CA for several years and had an active CA teachers license, her TN license expired while she was away. She moved back to TN. A CA resident would have just gotten a TN license with their current CA license.
But because this teacher originally had a TN license, she was not able to use reciprocity and was penalized by coming back-crazy, so we found a way to fix it by writing legislation to reactivate the TN license.
We worked with the State BOE and the state Dept of Ed to get the language right for them. After the bill was filed, I heard from teachers in Nashville and Knoxville who appreciated the bill as they were in the same boat. Pretty sure that means more are out there, happy to help!
We are headed for a big teacher shortage and this will help get good teachers in the classroom. The GOP have no good ideas, their constituents reached out to me for help, I worked with a constituent to get it done, and here is how they respond...
First I heard from Dem leadership that Rep Cepicky said they were not going to pass my teacher certification bill and instead would steal my language and put it on GOP Rep. Ragan bill as an amendment. Cepicky said it was retaliation for me taking a knee for the National Anthem.
It’s called bill jacking & some of these man-children think it’s cute. It’s theft of work product. They get to session and are given a notebook filled with bills from administration with talking points and stand up there and run them as instructed. I write my own talking points.
Perhaps a few have an occasional idea, but I’ll admit, I’m skeptical. This is who the GOP are. They steal other’s work product and claim it as their own, without lifting a finger to do any work other than devising a way to take from others.
In the next election they will claim I didn’t pass any legislation, sure I did, but they stole it and put their names on it. Of course, I have the receipts. I’m going to sleep now, with a clean conscience, knowing I would never steal someone else’s work product.
I’ll put the video of it up tomorrow. They giggled about it afterwards, like mean girls in junior high, such small petty people. #blesstheirhearts
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