Webdesk: Vice President Kamala Harris met with Tennessee three in Nashville to show support after the brutal shootings.
“Let’s not fall for the false choice,” she said at Fisk University chapel. “We can and should do both.”
“The underlying issue is one that we are witnessing, over and over again. This community experienced it firsthand just 11 days ago.” Moreover, Kamala Harris said of the Nashville school shooting that killed six people, including three nine-year-olds.
The vice president visited Tennessee House Democrats. While, She met privately with former Tennessee Democratic Representatives Justin Jones and Justin Pearson. They expelled two days earlier after staging a House gun law demonstration.
Moreover, Representative Gloria Johnson, who survived expulsion, attended the meeting.
Kamala Harris praised the Tennessee three for “chose to lead and show courage.” in the House.
“”These three understood the importance of standing to say the people will not be silenced. To say that a democracy hears the cries, hears the pleas, who hears the demands of its people who say that children should be able to live and be safe and go to school and not be in fear,” Harris said.
“We understand when we took an oath to represent the people who elected us that we speak on behalf of them,” VP Harris said, emphasising the White House’s commitment to democracy.”
She added, “Not these leaders. Their representation mattered. whose voices they were channelling. That’s democracy, isn’t it?”
Tennessee three protested Thursday and removed from committees.
“the House can set its own rules and punish its members for disorderly behaviour, and, with the concurrence of two-thirds, expel a member.” according to Article II, Section 12 of the Tennessee Constitution, which was used to remove the two lawmakers.
