Tennessee Gov. Bill HaslamNASHVILLE – Local GOP organizations in at least two Tennessee counties have adopted proposed resolutions circulating throughout the state that denounce Republican Gov. Bill Haslam for having “demonstrated a consistent lack of conservative values.”
The resolution also calls on the state Republican Party’s Executive Committee “to take meaningful action against” his administration.
Objectionable policies cited by the Republican parties in Stewart and Carroll counties include Haslam’s retention of gays or Democrats as state workers and the hiring by state economic development officials of a Muslim-American lawyer.
Meanwhile, two other Republican parties in Grundy and Williamson counties have passed scaled-down versions of the tea party-fueled resolutions.
These focus on one theme common to the others: Concerns about Sharia law and the state Department of Economic and Community Development having hired Samar Ali, who grew up in Waverly, Tenn. But the Grundy and Williamson resolutions do not attack Haslam personally.