Nashville Metro Councilman, District 35. Past Council President Pro Tem, Rules Chair, & Education Chair. Campaign ops via Harpeth Strategies. #GoDawgs
Apr 26, 2023 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
Last night’s meeting 🧵 ……
Let’s start with cutting off debate - the same tactic we saw State House Democrats fight against over and over on important bills this past session.
19 mins into debate on the biggest stadium handout in US history, the VM assured the crowd that “there’s a lot of discussion still left to be had.” A bill proponent then immediately called for an end to debate. 25 CMs supported it, one less than needed, after <20 mins of debate.
Jan 9, 2023 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
🧵The bill cutting the size of Nashville's Metro Council was filed in the #TNleg house today.
wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/…
For the purposes of this thread, let's stipulate that it's better to have a smaller Council (it might be) and that it's appropriate for the state to make that change (it's not). 2/
Jan 4, 2021 • 23 tweets • 6 min read
In 2017, Metro Council passed - with just 2 no votes - a set of guardrails around gov't surveillance for the first time. The bill called for Council approval and public hearings on major expansions of surveillance. It also banned invasive fixed-position license plate readers. 1/
There is now a bill that would open the floodgates for these readers - both a major expansion of police powers and a new threat to the safety of Nashville residents. I've offered an amendment that would instead build a framework around (already legal) mobile readers. 2/
