State Rep. Gerald McCormick
An SUV with a bullet hole in the driver’s side door and blood stains down the side sits behind police tape at the door to the emergency room at Erlanger hospital on Tuesday.
So the transgender bathroom bill got flushed and the move to try overriding the governor’s veto of the Bible as state book may too.
Good. The question is when did we all get so crazy in the first place? This is all so much ado about nothing.
Why aren’t our lawmakers more worked up about gang violence and Tennessee’s top showing in violence of all kinds?
Why not find ways to better fund education, rather than extra bathrooms and bathroom monitors to check birth certificates?
But no, House Majority Leader Gerald McCormick reversed that thinking in an attack on Chattanooga business leaders in the Chamber of Commerce Tuesday. McCormick went on a rant on the House floor and denounced the Chamber of Commerce for calling on him to oppose the bathroom bill while, he claimed, the same Chamber maintains silence about the city’s spree of gang violence.