Market Street in Knoxville is unique with statues celebrating women’s suffrage. Men didn’t want women voting. Many men identify with politicians who are aggressive, loudspeaking jerks. Most women don’t identify with jerks and tend to vote for kinder and more intelligent candidates – and women have changed politics.
The Republican party hasn,t caught up with women. With some exceptions (John Kasich and Nicki Haley), Republicans recently have chosen little puffed up men as their leaders.
Newt Gingrich shut down the country because President Clinton didn’t invite him back for a chat on an airplane trip.
Donald Trump wouldn’t allow a ship holding 21 Covid patients into the United States because they would have increased “my number” of Covid patients (we ended up killing 1,200,000).
Cameron Sexton wanted everyone to vote for him for house speaker. Gloria Johnson alone voted against him and the little puffed up man exposed himself by assigning Gloria Johnson to a tiny office. And an unhealthy closet for her assistant. (Gloria moved her desk into the hall and gave her assistant the office.)
Our current senator, Marsha Blackburn, is advertising about how tough she is on “big tech”. She doesn’t advertise is how “tough” she was on “big pharma” when she changed the law to allow “big pharma” to flood the country with opioids ( we ended up killing 500,000 ). It was “unintended” but forewarned! But “big pharma” donated big dollars . The Republicans get some credit though – she is not a little puffed up man.
Knoxville’s current state representative, Gloria Johnson, is what the suffragettes immortalized on Market Street dreamed of. Gloria Johnson is a woman of courage, intelligence, thoughtfulness, experience, kindness and a genuine public servant who serves everyone while she is in public office. Gloria will be an excellent senator.
This is what I wanted to say but I cut it to 300 words for the paper:
Market Street in Knoxville is quite unique with the statues celebrating women’s suffrage. Men didn’t want women voting. Many men identify with politicians who are aggressive, loudspeaking jerks. Most women don’t identify with jerks and women tend to vote for kinder and more intelligent candidates – and women have changed politics.
The Republican party has not caught up with the women. With some occasional exceptions (John Kasich and Nicki Haley ?), the Republicans recently have chosen little puffed up men as their leaders.
Newt Gingrich shut down the country because President Clinton didn’t invite him back for a chat on an airplane trip.
Donald Trump wouldn’t allow a ship which had 21 Covid patients to land in the United States because they would have increased “my number” of Covid patients (we ended up losing 1,200,000).
Cameron Sexton wanted everyone- Democrats and Republicans -to vote for him as speaker of the Tennessee house of representatives. Why should the Democrats hold their noses and vote for a little puffed up man? Gloria Johnson was the only representative to vote against him. His response was to exercise his power by assigning Gloria Johnson to a tiny office with an unhealthy closet for her assistant. (Gloria put her desk out in the hall and gave her assistant the office.)
Our current senator, Marsha Blackburn, is spending a fortune advertising about how tough she is on “big tech”. What she doesn’t advertise is how “tough” she was on “big pharma” when she changed the law to allow “big pharma” to flood the country with opioids ( we ended up losing 500,000 mostly young ? people). It was unintended but forewarned. But “big pharma” kicked in big dollars so she could advertise her virtues. You have to give the Republicans credit for originality though – she is not a little puffed up man.
Knoxville’s current state representative, Gloria Johnson, is what the suffragettes who are immortalized on Market Street dreamed of. A woman of courage, intelligence, thoughtfulness, experience, kindness and a genuine public servant who will serve in public office.
Some politicians are genuine public servants and some are in politics for personal gain ( and remember Republicans recently are characterized by the little puffed up man who is their leader). I hope you watched him squirm when faced with Kamala Harris-another exceptional woman.