A bill intended to keep private money from funding elections passed the Tennessee Senate on Wednesday.
Senate Bill 1534, approved by a 26-4 vote, prevents an individual or organization from giving money or equipment to the state election commission or those in charge of local elections.
Bill sponsor Sen. Kerry Roberts, R-Springfield, said he wasnât aware of this being an issue until last November s election.
âLook no further than Georgia, again in the headlines yesterday,â Roberts said. âWeâve got 400-some drop box ballots with no chain of custody. That was funded, itâs my understanding, by private money.â
The bill does allow for funding or donations to be approved by the speaker of the House and Senate, which Roberts said was a stipulation put in to allow for the right exceptions to be made.
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One of the useful functions of the latter book, in particular, is that it brings force and clarity to one’s prior knowledge of the dangers of right-wing libertarianism, or more generally anti-government and pro-“free market” thinking. In fact, this sort of thinking is an utter catastrophe that threatens to destroy everything beautiful in the world. I know that sounds like an absurd exaggeration, but it’s not. What with society and nature teetering on the brink, it’s the literal truth. I suppose the reason leftists don’t always take right-wing libertarianism as seriously as it deserves despite their deep awareness of the evils of capitalism is simply that it’s embarrassingly easy to refute. It’s a childish, simplistic, vulgar hyper-capitalist ideology that, once you examine it a little, quickly reveals itself as its opposite: authoritarianism. Or even totalitarianism, albeit privatized totalitarianism. Noam Chomsky, as usual, makes the point eloquently:
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Letter: Balentine suffers from political party syndrome
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As a biomedical scientist who wrote the letter “Balentine no health expert, reader is,” Dec. 4, and having been exposed to John Balentine’s opinion for many years, I believe he suffers from an all-too-common malady, i.e., the political party syndrome, a component of which is “selective forgetfulness” (PPS-SF). Persons presenting with PPS-SF have difficulty in forming an opinion WITHOUT “selectively” omitting relevant and, at times, inconvenient facts/truths to buttress their verbal/written expressions. Therefore, the opinions uttered by individuals who display PPS-SF are both shallow and often without merit.
In Mr. Balentine’s PPS-SF-induced opinion, he believes all our problems are due to the cancel culture (CC), “… how it’s (CC) diverting attention away from … things being done to our country by inept, cajoling, fearful national and state leadership” (“‘Oh, dear,’ cancel culture is a sh