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Jilly_in_VA

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Tue Apr 18, 2023, 06:18 AM Apr 2023

Conservative robocall raises questions, makes false allegations

A robocall obtained by the Tennessee Holler is raising questions about what happened inside the Tennessee Capitol on March 30 and made false allegations about the events there. The Nashville-based online news site posted a recording of it to its Twitter account over the weekend.

"Hi, this is Donna calling from Enlight Tennessee," an automated voice said. "On April 6, the Tennessee General Assembly voted on a resolution to expel radical liberal state Reps. Gloria Johnson, Justin Pearson and Justin Jones from the General Assembly."

It went on to call them "radical activists posing as elected officials" who "let an angry mob of Antifa members from all over the country and a handful of Tennesseans come to [the statehouse]."

Johnson, Pearson and Jones are all elected members of the Tennessee House of Representatives who together represent more than 100,000 people.

The Tennessee Highway Patrol, whose troopers were inside the Capitol that day, told WBIR there were no angry mobs and no reports filed in reference to demonstration activity that day.

https://www.wbir.com/article/news/politics/conservative-robocall-raises-questions-makes-false-allegations-possibly-from-enlight-tennessee/51-6000f712-9d15-445f-a74f-57a0a3c53c36

Read on, it gets worse. Side note--the brother of the guy behind this ad went to the same HS as my daughter did, Knoxville Catholic. Must have missed some lessons.

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Conservative robocall raises questions, makes false allegations (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Apr 2023 OP
Some pictures of the "angry antifa mob" Tanuki Apr 2023 #1
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