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Pro 2nd Amendment Rep. John Mark Windle leaves the Democrat party to run as an Independent in 2022
This year brings an interesting development in the evolution of the
Tennessee Democrat party’s leadership into a party that is continuing on
its path to become more and more as anti Second Amendment as the
national Democrat party leaders clearly are. Indeed, Tennessee’s
Democrat leadership increasingly looks more and more like the laughing
stock Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez than the rural conservatives of just 1 to
2 decades ago. Tennessee’s Democrat party is being controlled by urban
progressives. Consider the circumstances of Rep. John Mark Windle,
who was until just recently a rural yet conservative Tennessee Democrat
from Livingston, Tennessee.
Born in Cookeville, he has been a
life-long Tennessean. Rep. Windle is a graduate of the University of
Tennessee. He is licensed as an attorney in Tennessee. He is a Colonel
in the Army National Guard. Reports indicate that he has been deployed
several times including Kosovo and two combat tours to Iraq and that he
was injured during one of those tours in a mortar attack. Just over
60, he has also been a life long rural, conservative Democrat.
Rep.
John Mark Windle was first elected to the Tennessee Legislature on
November 6, 1990 – he was not even 30 at the time. He ran at the time
as a Democrat. He ran at a time when much of Tennessee was controlled
by Democrats but at a time when a large number of non-office holding
Democrats in Tennessee were (and are today) rural Democrats who are far
more Bible fearing, pro-life, patriotic, conservative and 2nd Amendment
supporting than the modern Pelosi-Biden-AOC slant of the party.
In March 2022, the Tennessee Star reported
that information it obtained indicated that the leadership of the
Tennessee Democrat party was planning to remove Rep. Windle from the
Democrat party due in part to his support of Second Amendment and other
conservative issues. The plan discussed in the Tennessee Star was that
the leadership of the Democrat party was going to let Rep. Windle
qualify by April 7, 2022, to run as a Democrat again and then after that
deadline had expired to remove him from the party thereby removing him
from the 2022 ballot.
That strategy is not new for Tennessee’s
Democrat party leadership. They did it in 2020 to long time Democrat
John DeBerry as also reported
by the Tennessee Star. Rep. DeBerry has been a Democrat since at least
the 1970s and had served in the Tennessee Legislature since at least
1995. He was re-elected year after year. But in 2020, just after the
qualifying deadline had expired, Rep. DeBerry was kicked out of his own
party by a 41-18 vote by members of the Tennessee Democrat Executive
Committee. One of the reasons
given is that Rep. DeBerry, a preacher, was one of a handful of rural
Democrats representatives who had voted in support of a controversial
bill banning abortions after a fetal heartbeat could be detected.
Apparently,
the rumors were credible enough that Rep. Windle made a choice. He has
left the Democrat party and registered for re-election as an
Independent.
Knowing the fact that Rep. Windle has in fact been
a steadfast supporter not just of the Second Amendment in Tennessee but
on many conservative issues, it was expected that he would have easily
been re-elected in his district in November. His decision to leave the
AOC driven leadership of the Democrat party to represent his
constituents and stand on his principles suggests he may well be serving
in 2023 as an independent in the Tennessee Legislature.
Indeed,
given what some Republican legislators have done the last 12 years to
kill good gun bills, like Senate Judiciary’s vote recently to kill REAL
Constitutional Carry by sending it to “summer study” on the votes of REPUBLICANS Sen. Mike Bell,
Sen. Todd Gardenhire, Sen. Jon Lundberg, Sen. Paul Rose, and Sen. John
Stevens, we need pro 2nd Amendment legislators who put the constitution
and principles above party or even leadership loyalty.
TFALAC Annual Event
The TFALAC (TFA’s political action committee) has set its annual BBQ
lunch and auction for Saturday, September 3, 2022 at the Farm Bureau
Expo Center in Wilson county, Tennessee. Please sign up as sponsors, vendors or purchase your tables and tickets.
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Executive Director
johnharris@tennesseefirearms.com
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fight to restore our constitutional rights and to fight against politicians who
are willing to sell their votes and your rights to whichever business interest
gives them the most money!
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