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Matt Van Epps Best Choice For Congressional District 7 Seat
“I hate this city,” so says state Representative Aftyn Behn in a recording that has come to light. Aftyn Behn, the new darling of the far left in Tennessee, who is the Democratic nominee in the December 2 special election for Congress for the seat formerly held by Congressman Mark Green in the 7th District, is squawking because a recording has come to light.
“I have been heavily involved with the Nashville mayoral race because I hate this city, I hate the bachelorettes, I hate the pedal taverns, I hate country music. . . I hate all of the things that make Nashville an ‘IT CITY” to the rest of the country. But I hate it.”
Behn’s comments came from a podcast in 2020. Behn represents Nashville in the Tennessee House of Representatives.
Aftyn Behn claims somehow the recording does not represent her true feelings and has issued a statement saying she really doesn’t hate the city she represents. It seems pretty clear in the recording, where she is giggling and boasting about what she hates about Nashville that it was no mistake.
Other past comments have come back to haunt the Democratic nominee, most especially those where she stated the police department should be disbanded while praising those who “believe burning down a police station is justified.”
In an appearance on MS NOW, formerly named MSNBC, Behn fell all over herself in a word salad worthy of Kamala Harris. “Um, I’m, yeah, I’m not going engage in, in, in, uh, cable news talking points, but what I will say is that, um, you know, our communities need solutions, we need local people deciding, uh, solving local problems with local solutions, and that’s not the overreach of a federal government or state government of, is, of which we are dealing with in Nashville and our cities across the state of Tennessee,”
The comments concerning the police department were posted to Twitter in 2020 when she supported an idea floated by a teachers’ union that defunding the police should be a condition of reopening schools following the Covid pandemic. Behn posted, “Good morning to the 54% of Americans that believe in burning down a police station is justified.”
If fully 54% of people in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional district believe burning down a police station is justified, one would think Behn would be only too happy to take credit for her tweets. Instead, Behn muttered that she didn’t remember those tweets. She’s probably trying awfully hard to forget them and change the subject.
A recent poll noted that even in the portion of Nashville inside the 7th Congressional district, voters believed one of the best solutions to making neighborhoods safer was to hire more police officers.
Aftyn Behn has called Tennessee a “racist state” and sounds more like she belongs in Portland or New York City than in Nashville. Behn attended Webb School here in Knoxville, where the tuition is something like $27,000 annually, so she is not oppressed by poverty and could very well be the poster child for white elitist women who suffer from a near-terminal case of white liberal guilt.
Matt Van Epps, the Republican nominee, loves our country and is a graduate of West Point and a combat veteran. There couldn’t be a greater contrast in candidates; they are polar opposites.
Democrats Wrong Again
Jack Keane, a retired general and former Vice Chief of Staff of the US Army, called the action of six Democratic lawmakers urging members of America’s armed forces to “refuse illegal orders” from the Trump administration, as “irresponsible.” “This is pretty outrageous,” Keane said on a Fox News program. “I don’t have a frame of reference for it whatsoever.”
Nobody does. Keane added, “These are irresponsible, reckless political leaders, and I normally don’t go after political leaders in our country, but they deserve it now. They’re absolutely undermining the military chain of command.”
Senator Elissa Slotkin of Michigan, Senator Mark Kelly of Arizona, Congressman Chris Deluzio, Congresswoman Maggie Goodlander, Congresswoman Chrissy Houlahan, and Congressman Jason Crow all participated in the video statement, where each repeated the bizarre litany about illegal orders without ever naming a single unlawful order having been issued. Crow appeared on a news show and proved unable to cite such an order.
General Keane said the video was “insulting the intelligence of our soldiers and their moral commitment to serve” our country without being able to name any illegal order.
California Needs A Republican Governor
The two leading candidates for governor of California are Eric Swalwell, a congressman sitting on the House Intelligence Committee until his removal by a Republican Speaker of the House, and a woman who dumped a pot of scalding hot mashed potatoes on the head of her husband and mistreats staff members.
If you’ve wondered why the State of California is about $40 billion in debt and people are leaving left and right, you don’t have to think about it for long.
Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene Will Resign
Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has announced she will be resigning her seat in Congress in January, which will set off yet another special election. I would say that it further compromises the slender Republican majority in the House of Representatives, but Greene has been all over the place.
