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December 9, 2022
Is
there constitutional authority of the TN Governor to use taxpayer funds
to lobby the legislature against your constitutional rights?
In Tennessee, however, a practice has arisen where
the governor has, at present, in excess of 40 taxpayer funded
“lobbyists” whose jobs include telling the elected legislators what the
“administration” wants the law to be. We saw this with Bill Haslam and
the massive gas tax increases. We saw this will Bill Lee in his 2021
permitless carry law (which creates nothing more than an affirmative
defense to a criminal charge).
TFA’s Richard Archie discusses
the Tennessee constitution and the fact that this system of using
taxpayer funded lobbyists to lobby the legislature in ways that are
often against the interests of the people – particularly the 2nd
Amendment – is not constitutionally authorized and may raise serious
questions about whether such taxpayer funded individuals are either
violating separation of powers considerations and/or potentially
engaging in official oppression.
YouTube Video on TFA's news post.
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