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Paul McCartney Guitarist Decries ‘Tyranny in Tennessee’ Over Expulsion of Black Democrats: GOP Has ‘Kink for Self-Harm’

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we need to talk. All of my incredible musician friends, songwriters, artists, & producers, must speak out against tyranny and in favor of representative democratic norms in your state.

This is preposterous. Please speak up. #TyrannyInTennesseeWay to further engage ALL people including PoC, millennials, first time voters, LGBTQ+, cementing an even bigger, more energized DEMOCRATIC base.

The Republican party’s kink for self-harm apparently knows no limit. #TyrannyInTennessee #HomeOfTheKKKRay was responding to news Thursday that the Tennessee House voted to expel two Democratic representatives, Justin Jones and Justin Pearson, for engaging in a protest against gun violence and stymied gun reform following the fatal school shooting in Nashville last week.

Their Democratic colleague, Rep. Gloria Johnson, also partook in the protest but was permitted to stay. The GOP supermajority, which accused Jones, Johnson and Pearson of breaking House rules on conduct and decorum, voted 72-75 to expel Jones and 69-26 to expel Pearson, who are both Black.

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