Mr. Williams,I am not a constituent in your district, but I am a state taxpayer, a voter, and a supporter of the Republican Party.
For the first time since the end of Reconstruction, there is a Republican majority in the House. At least there WAS one before today's session. As a member of the House Republican caucus, you signed a document committing yourself to vote for a Republican candidate for speaker and speaker pro tempore. You were quoted in the Chattanoogan on November 7, 2008 as saying: “I want to state today, unequivocally, that I pledge to vote for a Republican for Speaker of the House. I have every reason to expect that the Republican nominee will be Leader Jason Mumpower. We are grateful that the people of Tennessee have given us the opportunity to lead. We will make them proud.”
http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_138597.asp
Instead of making your constituents proud, you have deceived them. You have done the same to your Republican colleagues. You have made some sort of back room deal with Democrat representatives to gain their trust and their votes to make yourself speaker. While "technically" you may have voted for a Republican for speaker (yourself), you unequivocally broke your signed pledge by voting for a Democrat for Speaker Pro Tempore.
Politics of deception, Mr. Williams, is NOT the kind of so-called "change" we need in the General Assembly. Your action today is no shining example of how a public servant and an elected official should conduct himself or serve those who elected him.
Polite but truthful, I think.
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Oh, for God's sake, get a grip, will ya?
Kent Williams didn't deceive anybody. There's been speculation for months that he might not vote for Mumpower.
He said he was going to vote for a Republican, he never said that Republican was going to be Little Butterbean.
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