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Hey everybody, it’s Brandon Lewis here with the TennCon Big 7 Weekend Update where we have got news that you will not get from the left-leaning corporate media outlets or the establishment and it includes Governor Lee's meeting with Democrats behind closed doors to talk about taking away your Second Amendment rights or something like that. Tennessee Teachers conference includes educating Christians that they are definitely a privileged class and that's a terrible thing. Tennessee approves 7800 appeals of third grade reading retention law. We're gonna get into that. If they can't read, just pass them along. and embracing AI. UT Knoxville plans on some integrations for the worldwide takeover by robots probably. Tullahoma High school principal who suspended a student for posting memes while off off of school grounds and not not at school, leaves behind a pretty poor performing school, but that's OK. Have discipline for the children and accountability, but not necessarily the school system. Ergo America to receive $2,000,000 in free money from your pocket. It's gonna be great. You're gonna love it. It's gonna improve your life drastically. And then we're gonna get into some good news and the good news segment and that is getting some parental rights laws going into effect at Tennessee public schools and a court ruling that wicked teachers unions, which don't have much to show for all their promises, but very little actual delivery of substance, ain't gonna be able to get their money quite as easily. So that is a good thing. So that those are a few of the headlines and we're going to get through these stories in detail so you can be the most educated person, the most knowledgeable conservative in your circle.
Now, before I move along, we must do a few things. I've got to apologize for something make an announcement and then thank a few folks if it's OK with you. Number one, I was high atop of the mountains of Clayton, GA last week, which is why you didn't hear from me, but not necessarily because of the location. I got ready to do the Big Seven, because even when Brandon Lewis goes on vacation I still work for you for free. I'm trying to advance conservatism in the state of Tennessee. And as I got ready to do it, I discovered, even though I had forced everyone out of the house, even though I had turned off all the draw on the Internet. This Internet was the kind that you had to take an American online CD and you had to actually stick it into a DVD player to get your Internet. I'm joking, but it's about that slow and I could not send a file. No matter how small the upload speeds, it was just grind and grind and grind and then it just never would produce. And so you did not get the big seven and I apologize. At the same time, Jason Vaughn, who is a dutiful son who can use your prayers and his family is dealing with a little bit of a family emergency and therefore because of the universe conspiring against us there was no big seven yet. Now do not let your hearts be troubled. I'm right back. I'm gonna catch you up on some of the stuff that we may have missed last week. Bring you up to date on what's going on today. So you will be no worse for wear moving into this.
Now I would like to get into an announcement about the Conservative Candidates Academy. If you even have an inkling about ever running for office, let me tell you one thing about it as a former paid professional, and this is an endorsed message from the Conservative Candidates Academy. Umm. If you start too late, if you don't know what you're doing, if you can't connect yourself to the people and resources necessary, you will lose. Running for office is difficult. It is challenging, but when you know what to do it is far easier. You're far more likely to win and we've got to put more conservatives in office, and that is what you'll learn at The Conservative Candidates Academy. Please do go to ConservativeCandidatesAcademy.com. That's ConservativeCandidatesAcademy.com. Register for this event. I talked to a good friend of mine.Todd Watson of the Mcminn County GOP and he is going to be sending multiple candidates to the upcoming candidates training. And so if you run a grassroots organization, if you are in a grassroots organization but you're not necessarily a leader, forward the website to them Conservative Candidates Academy and simply ask do we have anybody that we're running for office, that really needs to be here so they can be equipped to win? If that is the case, don't go to some crappy training. I used to do this professionally for a living. Now I've been to some bad candidate trainings. They really don't tell you what you need to know. They want to pat you on the bottom and and and make you feel good, but they really don't leave you armed and equipped with the truth when this is not the kind of event that this will be. So do go to ConservativeCandidatesAcademy.com. I hope to see you there live and in the flesh.
Now moving on, I'd like to thank a few people, and I'm gonna do that by way of reading the mailbag – mail bag! I think that's something that used to happen on Pee Wee Herman's Playhouse and he has gone on to his great reward. I think his name is Paul Rubin. I can't recall, but I do remember growing up and watching Pee-wee's Playhouse, it was very weird. It was rather surreal and of course, later on the gentleman did have a hiccup or two in his career. But we wish Pee-wee the best in the afterlife and we're going to get into the mailbag now. Here we go.
Hi Brandon. This is kind of hard to read a little bit, but, an impressive talk the other night over here in Jackson, thanks for sharpening our focus and for all you do to keep the lights on in a Dark World. We will support and promote your mission over here in West Tennessee. The area is full of conservative souls just needing a source to counter the half truths and the obfus- obfuscate- the obfuscation - you know what I mean - of the political world. Blessings. Mary and Eddie. Now listen, Mary and Eddie, I appreciate your support. I was honored by what you sent in and that is the the the biggest thing we've ever received here in a single donation. And just when you think, uh, doing this job as I do that I'm all alone and that nobody is going to help because it just feels like that, so often somebody comes behind you and just gives you a tailwind and it keeps you keeping on. So thank you very much, Mary. I can't tell you how much I appreciate it. I will be giving you a buzz to thank you in person tomorrow while I'm on the road to to the Mississippi coast. And so you may may hear this before I call you or may you you may hear about it afterwards. But thank you very much.
Here's another one that I got in the mail and it just says thanks. If you can see that on the screen there and inside it reads, I will place a wool fleece over the threshing floor. Judges 6:31. When God gives a vision, I'm going to try my best to remember this. He always makes provision. I need to hear that more. more than I think you know. Seek God and the answers will seek you. Keep up the good fight, Brandon. Thank you, Tracy. And Tracy, I appreciate your long standing support. Very strong support. Thank you so much.
Here's another one. And it says, another thank you note for American Flag there, I appreciate it. Hey, I'm sorry you have to get into the mail bag here. Thank you again for including Jackson in your summer tour. We really enjoyed what you had to say and have received many good words about your sharing. I do hope that you receive some healthy donations and I did. Thank you very much for the help. Just sent you some from the people. You need to keep that. We the people in these people keep that. I'll take it. Thanks for being the connecting link between us and Kurt. And that's my buddy Kurt of the SCCR. I am fairly certain that in a short time there will be a Madison County Constitutional Republicans. We need more of them. And it says we will win because God is on our side. Continue your all important work. You and your team are making a difference. Thank you, Londa. I appreciate that very much.
One more, I promise. Just one more. OK. But I read these mail baggage encouragements here. Look at that little bird with American flag doesn't that touch your heart. It touches mine. Here we go. Brandon and company, TCN has been such a tremendous resource for us, which is Tennessee conservative news. We could not do what we do without you, thanks, Empowered Jefferson. Michelle. Thank you Michelle. Bill and Kathy say a big thank you. Another thank you from somebody who scribbled something I can't read. Thank you Michelle. Thank you, Chris. Thank you, Kristen. Thank you for all you do, Mike, like you do so much for us to make us informed. Thank you, Billy Jean. Those are some of my favorite people all in one card right here. That's a framer. I appreciate it.
That's enough of the mail bag. We got a lot of mail coming in. We did send out a letter regarding Bill Lee's Red Flag laws that he's trying to pass with the help of RINOs and Democrats up in Nashville and the fact that it's going to be very difficult and challenging to cover because it all happens so fast. Oh, I'll get into it as we go. We're gonna get into this. I don't need to. I don't need to front load it. We're gonna get into it.
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Hello. Governor Lee meets with Democrat lawmakers behind closed doors to discuss gun control legislation. I've said it before and I'll say it again. With Republicans like Bill Lee, who needs Democrats? A Tennessee special legislative session to address gun laws quickly approaches. It has been discovered that Bill Lee has been discreetly meeting with a group of state lawmakers throughout the summer. State Democrat Senator Heidi Campbell from Nashville and Representative Antonio Parkinson from Memphis accepted such invites themselves. A spokesperson, the governor said that, quote “the governor has spoken with more than 100 legislators and looks forward to continuing these productive conversations ahead of the special session on public safety.” Some of these quote unquote productive conversations, however, have involved an inner circle of lawmakers attending secret meetings hidden from the public eye. I think one thing that is interesting to me is that Bill Lee has only called two special sessions in his career. One was to give $2 billion to woke Ford Motor Company’s failed electric car division for Tennessee's Green New Deal. That's a great idea, right? Got dragged kicking and screaming to the medical freedom sessions. He was probably afraid that his abuse of his executive powers and emergency orders would be overturned. And God knows tyrants don't let the power being taken away from them. He has met with 100 legislators. He's really pushing this because a crazy trans person hopped up on medication who society has told that if you are a woman who thinks you're a man, that that is to be celebrated and that is normal instead of the fact that you need help, that his solution to it is his initial natural solution is to water down our Second Amendment rights, which is this. So why hasn't Bill Lee, if you go back to his 10 for 10 promises that he made, why hasn't he met with the lead, you know, 100 legislators to host say? Come up with school choice? Because he promised that right that we would all have real school choice. I have none. You probably have none. He said also that he would enforce the rule of law and legal immigration, but instead he is giving people professional licenses. He's he's never gotten behind a single piece of legislation on illegal immigration except to expand it or to make it easier, but never to curtail it, despite those campaign promises. And I can go on down the line, corporate welfare… But the guy gets really excited about things that are not conservative. Meanwhile, he has no interest in things like term limits or anything else that he promised. Protecting your rights, your constitutional rights without compromise. All of these are campaign promises now. He's never worked the media up into a frenzy. He's never worked the legislators on the things he promised to run on, but the things he promised he would not do. He's got all the time in the world to do that. We've got to elect a better governor the next time around, and we've got to have better Republican leadership so that should we go into a crisis again, we don't have weak RINOs, really, just old southern Democrats like McNally and Sexton leading the two chambers, which are the only thing that stands between a RINO and a Southern Democrat like Bill Lee cramming this stuff down our throats. Back to the story. The inner circle consists of between 12 and 15 House and Senate members gathered by Governor Lee's team to supposedly advise advise the executive administration on potential legislation. You know, with all this stuff is, this is him getting together with our state lawmakers so that he doesn't fail to do something. He is probably afraid the Republican lawmakers will just say no, which is really what they should do if they had any political sense. But this will just be one other thing. This will be another feather in the cap of somebody who wants to run for office as they continually and constantly remind the public during Republican primary elections of the fact that our sitting leadership is unable to do anything in education that they continue to grow the government they continue to hand out corporate welfare and all the major initiatives that that conservatives really care about. There's been no action on on everything. They really kind of despise and distrust and all the corruption is kind of in place. So this will just give people that wouldn't run. Just one more thing to tell voters about if they are smart Republican Senators John Stevens, Becky Duncan Massey and Dawn White, as well as Democrat Senate Minority Leader Raumesh Akbari were all noted as attending these meetings, according to the Senate Republican press secretary Molly Gormley. Senate Republican Caucus Press Secretary Molly Gormley. I would hate to have this job. You've basically, you’ve got to lie all day long to people. It's what this job is Quote “the working group has not been part of drafting the governor's extreme risk order proposal.” No red flag laws here, like Jack Johnson said, you gotta call it something else. John Harris at the Tennessee Firearms Association said, and he has been doing great work, any constitutional Republic with a so-called conservative governor in a red state like Tennessee, if you would expect the governor would be conducting secret meetings, well, if you're a second amendment advocate who's watched this particular governor and several of the Republican legislative caucus over the last 13 years, you might be one to expect exactly that kind of shenanigans. Anybody who's paid any attention to anything that has happened in the last 20 years, and I will admit it, I will admit, Brandon Lewis is, you you heard it here. Breaking news. Even when I ran federal races, even when I ran state and local races, I honestly just always thought that if you're a Republican, you're probably gonna be OK. And my job was to help elect Republicans. Little did I know that I was often sending people that did more harm than good. And then I took six years focused on my family, focused on my business, and got completely out of politics. Until COVID made me get into the news business to finally get the truth out. This is the only news outlet that will tell the truth in Tennessee. But it wasn't until probably two good years of running this publication that I really had my eyes open to how rotten, corrupt, and completely unaligned with the campaign promises the GOP caucuses up in Nashville, I mean, there's very little redeeming qualities. And so you as a Tennessee Conservative subscriber, whether it's the podcast or whether you read the news stories or whatever it is you do now you know. And I would challenge you if you listen to this podcast, if you read our news publication and we are telling you something that isn't true, if I am beating a narrative that is false, point out where. I would like to know. I don't get those kinds of emails. I don't get those kinds of calls. Are lawmakers upset with me? Disappointed? Yeah, obviously nobody likes the truth when you're living in darkness.But they never say that we're getting it wrong. They never say that we're telling something that isn't true. And there's a difference.
Next story, Tennessee Teachers Conference Included Woke presentation Labeling Christians as Having Privilege. Don't you just love putting your kids in the hands of these left-leaning, anti Christian school teachers? It's gotta be good for society, good for your kids, right? The Clarksville Montgomery County School District compiled with a public records or complied rather with a public records request that Parents Defending Education submitted regarding the conference entitled Engage 23: The World Needs More Purple People. Do we? On page five of the conference materials, it seems that Purple People use diversity, equity, and inclusion to connect. Of course, we need more, we need more Marxists and communists. That's what we need in good old education. I guess if you're gonna continue to pretend like you're educating people and that the taxpayers are getting value out of their tax dollars and the kids aren't graduating as functionally illiterate, yeah, we probably need more of these. You need more of them now. Society probably doesn't. The taxpayers don't. But you probably do. Back to the story, the materials also included a handy chart for school staff and educators that classifies groups of people as either having privilege or oppression. That's nice. That is nice. I'm so glad our taxpayer dollars are going to this. Anyone who is enough. This is you. You're you're naughty, naughty you're this is you. According to these, these teachers, anyone who's white, able bodied, straight, Christian, male, or who are either young adults or middle-aged adults from middle class or upper class backgrounds are of course privileged, according to the chart. This leaves all other people to be classified as oppressed. I don't know who I'm oppressing. Because I don't see anybody. I'm almost at the time, I'm at home. I do employ people. I do provide services and goods for people. I go to church. I go to the gym. Now, my kids might tell you occasionally I oppress them. We had to have a long talk about cleaning rooms here recently. You know, I did all that kind of stuff. Getting to bed on time that they probably think that's oppressive, but that's parenting, right? This is just so much BS, and it is just infiltrated into every nook and cranny of Tennessee's public education system. And Republicans have first no interest and then when they make motions and when they make noise about getting it out of school.It is always ceremonial.And it's there's never any rubber, meaning there's no rubber meeting the road. There's nobody getting fired.There's nobody being penalized financially. It's just a bunch of noise. According to the presentation, even the very language that teachers use in the classroom may cause trauma, and the authors of Engage 23 exhort educators not to say triggering phrases such as, “make this for your mommy” or “how did you celebrate Christmas?” Also included in the materials is a reading list that includes several resources for staff. One of these is a primer about Sexual Orientation from the American Psychological Association, you can't trust that organization at all or the AMA, which makes it crystal clear that public schools do not welcome biblical views on the topic. Of course they don’t. Another link to the Safe Space Kit Guide to be an ally to the LGBT students encourages teachers to commit to respecting the privacy of students who come out to them. I identify as a toaster oven. It's OK, honey. Live your truth. Geez.
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Next story.Tennessee approved 7800 appeals of third grade reading retention law. More than 86% of the appeals filed related to Tennessee's third grade retention law succeeded. Wonder. I wonder what? 14% failed. I'd like to see the failing ones because obviously of 86% of them get approved. I want to know which ones who failed it and why. Is it because like you put like, Johnny can't read a lick. Um. He says he's being tortured in school. Um. And how the what? What could you write down? Because I mean, if all of them get through, even if they can't read and write, just to shuffle them through the system so that the system can keep getting the money and not be held accountable to deliver results for taxpayers. What is it that what? How could you fail? Jason? We should probably do an open records request and see if we can figure out how and why these these things failed.Tennessee Department of Education said approved 7812 appeals from 9054 unique students in the process if students were part of the 60% of the state that did not receive a passing score on the reading portion of the Tennessee Comprehensive Academic Test. 60% that couldn't, couldn't make it, they were allowed to retake the test. If they scored approaching on the test but did not pass, they could then appeal the result with the state or participate in a four week reading summer camp with 90% attendance or commit to take tutoring through the 4th grade in order to advance. Most districts had less than 25% of students who took the retake score and score proficient. So it's just interesting to me. Imagine what business you could be in where only 40% of what you sell worked. Hey, I got these 10 cows here. I'm gonna sell them to you. 10 cows. Now listen, six. Some are going to die, but I need to be paid for 10:00. Not only do I need to be paid for 10, you're gonna pay me double what you could go and buy them anywhere else for. Oh, by the way, I'm gonna take the money from you. Whether you want the cows or not, oh, you don't want to use the cows? Doesn't matter. We're going to kill six and and four we'll give away to somebody else. That is what government education is like in Tennessee. Baffling. And Republicans? Republicans look at it, and they can't find any way to make it better. What kind of leadership is that when you have a full scale emergency on your hands in public education when it is on fire? And you just let it just go on year after year? Never helping the taxpayers, never helping the kids.That's leadership, baby.
Next story Embracing AI, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, plans for AI integration and press release guidelines.Or release guidelines. Rather, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, has decided to integrate artificial intelligence into their education system, probably because they don't have any real intelligence. At least no return on investment. Not for the kids that they encumber with debt and fill their heads full of garbage under the guise of simply enhancing the learning experience. Guidelines have already been established for the upcoming 2023 and 2024 academic year, offering professors three different options or levels of using AI in the classroom. The first these, open use, allows students to use AI for any class assignments, so long as the AI is given proper credit. Hey, I got an idea. What if we could take these people's money? They don't even have to work, they can just have a robot, right, for the reports if we give them credit and I don't have to teach so hard and we don't have to see if they're actually proficient in anything. That'd be an awesome setup because more people want to go to college because it's just gonna get the paper until they hit, hit the workforce and they can't get hired, and then if they are hired, employers realize they have no skills. Sounds like a great idea. The third option, strict use, allows professors to strictly ban their students from using AI for coursework. Considering it a form of academic dishonesty, it seems like that would be the only approach you would want. Apparently allowing AI like ChatGPT to crank out a paper on a subject that most students may or may not even be remotely understand and turning it in. It's just as good as writing the paper yourself and does not qualify as academic dishonesty, at least as long as the professor says that it's OK. You can't make this stuff up, people. Fact is stranger than fiction.
Next story.Tullahoma High School principal who suspended student for posting memes, left poorly performing school behind after retirement in June. Well, most principals do.If they're leaving, they're leaving behind a poor performing school in Tennessee in most cases. Jason Quick tendered his resignation effective June 30th after three years at Tullahoma High School. During his time at school, few test scores came up to pre COVID benchmarks and in most cases the school fared worse during the last round of state assessments than it did the previous year. Great work Jason. We need more people like you in education. Overall English language arts TCAP scores showed that students were 34% proficient after the 2022-2023 academic year, down from 40% the previous year. Before the pandemic, 39% of students were meeting or exceeding benchmarks. After the state resumed testing after COVID, 30% of students were found to be proficient. Less than 1/3 of 9th graders taking English during the 2022-2023 school year met the benchmarks 88 out of the total 308 and in 2019 that number was 34.54%. Overall math proficiency for Tullahoma High School students was 20% this year, down from 24 last year. In 2019, that score was 33%, followed by 21% after the state resumed testing after the - oh, I don't mean to laugh, but sometimes things are so sad you gotta laugh at them, right? I don't want to be weeping on this program. After this round of testing in 2023. Out of the 284 students in 9th grade at Tullahoma High School taking algebra one, just 37 met or exceeded expectations. Boy, that's a mere 13.1%. In 2019, 22.3% of 9th graders met benchmarks. And it goes on. August 2022 Quick suspended a rising senior for posting three memes on the then 17 year olds Instagram account that poked fun at the Tullahoma High School principal. Now this. These aren't like dirty means. They weren't obscene, they're just funny. It was like him with dog ears or something. It was not, like, terrible, like it wasn't vindictive or ugly or threatening. It was just humorous.And playful would be the best way I could describe it. I've seen these. If there’s another of them, there's one that's terrible, I haven't seen it. I apologize, but the ones I saw were pretty harmless. In turn, the student has sued, seeking actual and compensatory damages, as well he should, against Quick and then assistant principal Derrick Crutchfield, who has since taken over as principal. In addition, it’s also hoped that school social media policy will be deemed unconstitutional.
Next story. Inchem Income. Income. Who Cares? America to receive 2 million in incentives from Tennessee. Don't you wish as a small business owner or a taxpayer, Bill Lee and and some kind of economic panel or Chamber of Commerce globalist would just show up to your door with a bunch of money that they took from somebody else and say here, here's this money to try to compete against your competitors. Because we're not picking winners and losers. That'd be nice. While Tennessee continues to subsidize the electric vehicle manufacturing business in the state, most recently acknowledging 2 million in subsidies for Enchem America, which plans to spend, they always do plan to spend 152.5 million to create an electrolyte manufacturing operation in Brownsville. Enchem is headquartered in South Korea. Love giving those S Koreans Tennessee taxpayer dollars. It's great. It's great. It's wonderful. Everybody loves it. The electrolytes are used in electric vehicle batteries, and the facility will be at the I40 Advantage Industrial Park, which recently received a separate $1 million grant for access road construction and sewer infrastructure. The subsidy joins the 88. $88.4 million and the four Blue Oval City electric truck subsidy and the 78 million in subsidies the state has given the Altium sales plant in Spring Hill. I mean, the division in Ford Motor Company is losing billions of dollars every year. People don't want it. Tennessee also gave 6K Energy Tennessee 1.75 million incentives for its battery material manufacturing plant in Jackson, TN. Department of Community and Economic Development, which is redistributing poor and middle class people's wealth to very wealthy muckety mucks who are typically left-leaning corporatists. But I guess that's too long for a department name.Tout the subsidies being necessary to bring the electric vehicle facilities to Tennessee. We need losing businesses desperately in Tennessee. We need businesses that are epically losing money, and we need to take it from businesses that make money. We gotta do this. Who can't? Who makes these decisions? The same people that made the pandemic decisions. But those who study those subsidies academically question if any of that's true.The research has shown that subsidies benefit politicians in both political donations and votes more than they impact the economy, as it always happens to be.
Next story, guys.I had a question. It's just a. As one of these, what do you call? What does the word? It escapes me here. Rhetorical questions. I'm getting a little slow, getting a little slow in my old, my old doddering age. If I told you. You know. Next week I'm shutting down the Tennessee Conservative News, the podcast, the social media channels. And if you ask me why I was doing it and if I said, well, I just figured I'd shut it down because somebody else will do it. What would you tell me? Truly, what would you tell me? Because I've been here for 20 years and nobody has started a real, genuine conservative news outlet. The Tennessee Star played at it for a little while and and they kind of abandoned the mission. Um. And so there's just me, right? If I said if I'm just gonna quit doing it, somebody else will do it. Would you say that is sound reasoning and logic? Go ahead Brandon, just put it all down. Somebody else will pick it up in a couple of days. It'll be like nothing ever happened. You would never say that because you know that it would be untrue and crazy. And it it is like, a very, the longer I do this more. I realize it is very odd that we even have this. And I think it's part of God giving me a passion for it and me being weird enough and strange enough to do it. OK. But a lot of conservatives, they think, I don't need to give, I don't need to donate. I don't need to participate financially because somebody else will do it. That logic is just as false and as foolish as what I just described to you. Because your neighbors won't do it. Because conservatives, on the whole, don't. We need you to be an exception. Just like Tracy. Just let Mary and Eddie. We need you to be exceptions. So please do go to TennesseeConservativeNews.com/support. Hit that support button because believe me, ain't nobody else gonna do it. You've heard me say that time and time again. Ain't nobody else gonna do it. 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Did you keep your beverages warm or hot during this heat wave that we've got going on? If you give $50 or more, or a recurring donation of $10 or more, because we need them, we need them to keep the lights on. And like I said, I was just this week is the most we ever received more economic blessings for what we do here. Which. One of my pastors said that this is your ministry and I I believe it. It is. I mean it's like a no profit for profit. It's like a ministry. So it’s just our ministry. Our work that we do here at the Tennessee Conservative has received more support in the last week. Granted we didn't check the mailbox last week because we were out of town, but it has just been above and beyond amazing. And a lot of it happened before I even mailed any letters or didn't. Being attacked by a gnat or something. So sorry. Professional grade. Professional grade podcast. Tucker Carlson doesn't give it to you like this. I wish I could be that polished. Um. It's just been amazing, the outpouring of support. So maybe something's catching on. Maybe the hearts of our subscribers have changed. Now. It doesn't matter if it did happen primarily from just a handful. But that's all I need. I just need a handful of more of people, additional people, just to wake up. Say I'm gonna help. I'm gonna get off the sidelines financially. I'll close with this little story. And if I've told you before, I apologize if I repeat myself as I often do.There was a lady that came up to me after an event and say I've been giving to some national something up in DC, that does something. I'm not really familiar with this, with, the lady says. And I give them so much per month, and I realize that, like, I don't know what's happening with that money. I don't know where it's going. It's some big national nothing. I don't feel like my money's gonna make a difference in Washington. But I feel like based upon what you're doing and what I have heard through my own civic engagement and experience, if I put money into things in Tennessee and in local politics, things that affect local politics and state politics, it does go further. It does make a difference, and I would argue that it does. And she said, I'm changing that. I'm shifting my budget over to the Tennessee Conservative News because I see the impact of the work you're doing. I have no idea if these people are making any difference where I'm sending my money now. And I said thank you very much. And so if you have a similar contribution that you're giving to some nameless, faceless national organization and you can't see the difference that it makes, send it on our way. I promise you, we don't waste any of the money here at the Tennessee Conservative. It doesn’t go to overhead. It doesn't go to me. It doesn't go to large salaries. It goes straight to the bottom line of conservative change making in Tennessee. Because when we report the truth, our subscribers take action. It's very simple. That's all we do. We're just a for profit, truth telling, free speech Press alternative and the rights of the press shall not be infringed, even though the state of Tennessee, I'm sure would like to try, and probably will at some point, that it's in our constitution, both the Tennessee and the US. And so we appreciate your help. I know I'm kind of rambling a little here, but I feel like I've missed you because I've not talked to you since the last time. And even though you're not here, I always feel like I'm talking to people because I get to see them out in the events that I go to, which I do still have two stops on the Let's Go Brandon Tour. One of them is in McMinnville and the other one is in Mcminn County I believe. I need a little. I didn't print that out. I didn't make those notes. But there's two more stops in the Let's Go Brandon, Tennessee tour. Actually, three. I'm gonna add 1. Jason, we need to add 1 in, in Tellico Village. So if you remind me of that, I would appreciate it. We're gonna be in Tellico Village, we're gonna be in Mcminn County, and we're gonna be in Mcminnville. So I'll see you somewhere, somewhere in a city near you.
Good news story. We're gonna close strong. Two good news stories. Here we go. Parental rights laws go into effect with fall semester at Tennessee public schools and court case rules that ban on teacher payroll deductions for union dues will stand. Here we go. As public schools across the state get ready to welcome back students after the summer break a new parental rights law essentially goes into effect at the beginning of the fall semester. As public schools across the state get ready to welcome back students after the summer break, a new parental rights law essentially goes into effect with the beginning of this semester. Did I read that twice? Man. I am getting I'm getting old and doddery. The new law requires Tennessee students to obtain parental consent before allowing students to participate in surveys, joint student clubs, or be present for courses that discuss sexual orientation and gender identity. Parental and legal guardians must be allowed to review all surveys, analysis and evaluations prior to being administered. This is a good thing, and the school districts must obtain a written, informed and voluntary sign consent of parents. That's good. And why do you have to do this? And then again I keep saying this. All these laws, they have to pass about you gotta tell parents what to do. You can't tell kids that being White is bad. You can't try to convince boys they're girls and girls they're boys and you can't like all these laws we have to pass. You have to be able to read. We have to pass all these laws because public education is so fundamentally broken. If it were worth a hoot, you wouldn't have passed any of these laws. The fact that it is so broken and so dangerous for kids to even be in these these terrible environments. It it, it is all the more reason for no strings attached tax rebates. Like we know the government is failing at education. They have tried it for a long time. It is now time to just give the money back and let parents who want to leave leave now. If you love public education, you're dedicated and committed to it. You just stay in it. Nobody's gonna make you leave. They don't want you to leave. That's just money for them. It's a it's a government job. But for those who want to leave.
Next story, court rules that ban on teacher payroll and deductions for union dues will stand. Court ruling will now allow the state to eliminate the option for public school employees to have membership dues for professional teacher organizations deducted from their paychecks. Governor Bill Lee signed Senate Bill 0281 into law in May. That would put an end to teachers having the annual dues automatically withdrawn. Groups like Tennessee Education Association law was set to go into effect on July 1st. TEA sued the state in June. It is so funny. The government employees can lobby the government against the taxpayers interests with government money. I'll say that again that government employees can use taxpayer dollars to sue the same government for things that are in not in the best interest of the taxpayer. That should be illegal. TEA sued the state in June saying that the ban would cost them funds and minimize their revenue. Good. And of course that's the point, which comes solely from those member fees. TEA President Tanya Coates, which is just going to have to take a pay cut, Tanya. This ban was mean spirited and the way it was passed was unconstitutional. Really. I don't know anywhere in the Constitution where it says that. Government institutions have to have payroll deductions for whatever else anyway. However, on Friday the judge has issued a decision stating the bills caption clearly states what the law does, and including both parts of the bill is not a violation of the single subject requirements for Tennessee laws under the state constitution. It's simple. Just go ask people for the money. You can get it from them. It might be a little harder. You'll be alright. Y'all keep. Don't worry, Tanya. Y'all will keep ruining the lives of children with or without this. Government education is gonna roll on. It's gonna continue to be ineffective and pointless. So don't you worry. Don't don't you worry there. The the kids will still be functionally illiterate. And I know you're trying harder. You want to get them there faster and you've got goals. But don't worry about it, Tanya. It's going to be alright.
That's it, fellas. I came back. I did run a little long today. So what did I do on this trip? I always tell you what I'm gonna do. We went down into a massive gorge that had about 1100 steps and that was interesting. Hot as blazes out there, and Clayton, GA has a lot to offer. I really did enjoy it. We went to a few nice restaurants. I went to a beautiful winery. What was it called? Downhill or Stonewall winery? It was really good. Went to a little distillery there with a friend of mine from Alabama. We did a hiking trail and a primitive area along a huge Ridge. There's about a three mile loop and that was neat. What else? And I went raft, I went rafting down the Chattooga River. And it was fun. I'm with my daughter, Albert, his son and Waylon, and we just had a blast. It was just that the guide and us. And it was fun. It was a little sketchy. The river was way down. We almost fell out of the boat a few times. I mean, there were some class 5 Rapids there, jumped off some rocks, swam around, had lunch on the little little stone thing. It's just beautiful. The Chattooga River, if I'm understanding properly, it's like this huge river that is in a protected area. Whatever that means, but basically it means that you can't build a house, you can't build a road, you can't build a structure. It is as natural as it gets and it's not dam controlled it, t's just out there. And so you go for hours and hours and there's nothing but nature and these beautiful rock formations, boulders and cliffs and we saw a fair amount of wildlife while we were out there. It was beautiful, just a fun trip with the family and I came back. I'm working my keister off and now I've got to go down to Biloxi MS. I'm not a gambler. I do not gamble. I consider business to be enough of a gamble. But I have some friends, some fraternity brothers that I have not seen, some of them in a decade, some of them I've seen recently. But a buddy of mine, Samba is really good at being the spoke on his wheel. And I'm the spoke on my wheel. And he has people on his wheel that I don't and have people on on my wheel that he doesn't. And we bring people together. Uh, and so I'm gonna go down there and hang out. I'm covered up with work. I really need to stay here and work. But I can't work every single hour on every single thing. Eventually I have to go somewhere somehow and do something with some people I know or otherwise. If you don't spend time and energy with your friends and your family, those connections get loose and so you just got to do it. That's part of it. So that's what I'll be doing. I'll be driving a lot and hanging out and trying to figure out hopefully, I I told him I want to go see some shows I'm I'm more of. I'd rather go there and see live, see live entertainment. But I do not gamble. I don't have any talent for it. It just makes me upset to lose my money. I'd rather spend it on something, you know what I mean? That's what's going on, guys. A long time ago, something you may not know and I'll close with this, and I've thought about doing this, but I don't know that I will, my father used to drive all the way up to Albertville, AL from Gulfport MS. which is really close to Biloxi. And he would pick me up and drive me all the way down there on the weekends when he had me, which is kind of, I mean, amazing dedication. And I would ride in the back of his swamp fox van. And if you've never heard me talk about that in a in an audience, it's it's quite humorous. And I'd ride in the back and sleep on the way there and we'd get there and Dad had a little vinyl top shop where he would put tops on cars and he had a little efficiency apartment in the shop that had like just a toilet, the sink? Everything was just in one room. It was like a bachelor pad, like it used to. Think about a blue collar technician. And I'd sleep in there and Dad would work every day till about 3:00. And when he had me and then he would let me go to the beach. Every day I wanted to go to the beach. Kids love the beach. I love the beach. And so I remember going down there and I would love to try to figure out where Pop’s Top Shop used to be. He used to have this T-shirt that said don't run around topless, Gulfport MS. But maybe I'll see something I recognize. Maybe my memory will come back to me. So I'm gonna try to drive around because I am driving separate down there and I'm sleeping in my own hotel room. They said, oh, you can room with so and so and save money and I said, nope, I'm going, I like taking naps in the middle of the day and I like to go to bed whenever I want to go to bed without any noise or distractions, I'm going to be I'm going to drive separate. And I'm going to sleep. Sleep Super. So that's what's going on with me and this weekend. So if if I'm not around, that's why. Guys, I missed you last week. Thank you for all your support. Thank you for all you do. Thank you for caring about Tennessee's news and for enduring my nasally voice and my redneck accent and my terrible wandering delivery to get the news.There are more efficient and entertaining ways of getting it, so the fact that you tune in means a lot to me. Alright guys, love you, mean it. Take care. Talk to you next week. Bye bye.