The Tennessee Star has obtained an audio recording of a group of far-Left agitators who met over the weekend to discuss plans to disrupt the Tennessee legislature’s August special session on “public safety,” which critics say is really an effort by Governor Lee to pass red flag laws and other gun control measures.
The recording, which is nearly two hours in length, provides insight into what the political Left is planning, from legitimate protesting up to and including possible acts of domestic terrorism.
Over the coming days, The Star will be releasing portions of the audio in several different news stories.
The event took place Saturday at 50 Vantage Way in Nashville, in which Planned Parenthood has an office.
It was audio recorded by a source who then turned the recordings over to The Star. That source said the event was attended by about 30 people, and the event as “somewhat open to the public,” but said that it appeared to be more of a word-of-mouth gathering.
The all-day meeting featured local activists, including a local news reporter who offered participants a mini media training.
The event’s emcee was Julie Edwards, the Advocacy & Organizing manager for Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi. Edwards’ LinkedIn page says she also works in the same role for Tennessee Advocates for Planned Parenthood, the pro-abortion group’s political activism arm.
According to The Star’s source, the Executive Director of Tennessee Advocates for Planned Parenthood, Francie Hunt, was also in attendance.
At the beginning of the event, Edwards alluded to the fact that Planned Parenthood was funding the day’s activities.
“Keep in mind, the special session is August 21st, so everything we learn here today is to be applied towards the special session,” she said. “So, we are investing in y’all as activists, with the promise that y’all will show up when we need you to show up. Including August, but also I know some of y’all aren’t from Nashville so we’re trusting y’all to go back in your communities, share this information and f**k it up when it needs to happen.” (Emphasis added.)
One activist who led a session as part of the event included Katia Carillo, who introduced herself as a Nashville native and the founder of an organization called Conmigo (translated: with me) Consulting.
That organization, according to The Star’s source, is a local activist group that is run by Carillo and a few others. Conmigo Consulting does not appear to be a legal entity in the state of Tennessee, or anywhere else.
Other activists, whom The Star will identify later in this series, also participated.
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Pete D’Abrosca is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Pete on Twitter.
Photo “Tennessee State Capitol” by Ken Lund. CC BY-SA 2.0.
Since when was any State or Federal Government “Enumerated the Power” to “Re-write/Re-define” the “Bill of Rights”???
Citizens wrote the Constitution and decided what Rights/Freedoms they wanted to keep and never “Enumerated” either State or Federal Government the “Authority/Power” to legislate/Regulate any of our “Rights/Freedoms”.
As a matter of fact, the “GUNS” they want to take are to be used to prevent “PRECISELY” what they are trying to do, and since it’s a “Duty of Citizens”, without any penalties.
Madison said Government powers were “few and defined”, you won’t find, Enumerated, Implied, Resulting, Inherent powers where the Bill of Rights is concerned, only with the Management and operation of Government duties.
Guess the group that has plans to protest is too dumb to know that they and Bill Lee are trying to do the same thing,
“DESTROY THE BILL OF RIGHTS”.
About as bad as the “PINO”s but don’t know it.
“P.atroit I.n N.ame O.nly”.
Steve, the leftists who protested in Nashville last month did not use violent tactics like the January 6th Counter-Revolutionists used, and you know it! No leftist attacked or harmed police officer. Nor did they ransack any offices inside the capitol building the way your right-wing heroes during January 6th did. The January 6th insurrectionists ATTEMPED to OVERTHROW our government while the Nashville protesters last month did not!
William r delzell, I have seen your past posts and know that you are a left wing fanatic who buys into everything that Democrats tell you. You wants every gun taken by the communist government we have now. So it is you, not, who is a dupe!
Sounds like an act of Social Democrat Communist Terrorism with the clenched Fist Communist Salute.
We shall see if the Governor will capitulate to terrorism or stand tall with a backbone for the good people of Tennessee.
The No Action – No Peace has the fingers of Al Sharpton on it.
If these people were MAGA supporters they would be designated domestic terrorists and prosecuted. Glen Funk won’t do a damn thing to these Bolsheviks.
What if Covid 19 or 20 stalks the streets of Nashville during the August Conference? Would it be necessary or at least more convenient to have the legislators work from home or from their motorhomes or cruise ships using a superzoom to conduct the conference and let the BLM / Antifa / Wokefolk own the streets? Come on Nashville, lets get creative!
William R Delzell, sounds like you are all about supporting radical left wing thugs, supporting violence and passing anti Constitutional laws. Wow! The truth hurts.
Justin Jones & Justin Pearson are certified Community Organizers/ Activists/ Supremacists.
Be sure the FBI informants are recruited. If they are going tobput on a show for us, we want it to include all the lying a$$holes who are btw paid to be ” grass roots” ACTIVISTS. Red flags to all present at this meeting.
Thank you to whoever exposed these creeps
Who is the local reporter who offered to give media training? They are obviously far from objective & the outlet for which they work needs to be pressured into firing them as a reporter. I suspect I know who it is.
Time for a Chancery Court Injunction against everyone involved! Cease and desist order. It should be relatively easy.
Tim, if Governor Lee was really serious about pushing for gun control, he would not wait until August to push it. No, he is MERELY pretending to support the leftists and progressive by gas-lighting them on this issue. The fact that he has passed legislation to protect gun manufacturers from lawsuits by victims of recent shootings proves the liar he is. He is really in cahoots with the Far Right of the Government Overreach Party (G.O.P.) that still controls the Tennessee Legislator and Governor’s Mansion. Either you are a dupe or an accessory to Lee’s gaslighting.
This is the perfect opportunity for the Tennessee State government to demonstrate it’s commitment to law and order. These liberal a$$holes should be thrown in prison just like the “insurrectionists” from January 6th. Or how about a counter protest using all the violent tactics that leftists use. It’s fourth and goal at the fifty yard line for America.
Hope the state has plenty of State Troopers on hand to handle this siutation.
Thank Gov Bill Lee for enabling these activists