Mike Morrow of the Tennessee Report, a volunteer not-for-profit news organization that has great coverage of Tennessee politics, was at the recent town hall meeting with Rutherford County’s delegation to the General Assembly:

Sen. Bill Ketron, R-Murfreesboro, charged into a passionate defense of his intent on a “cyber-bullying” law he sponsored this year as part of a broad town hall discussion Thursday night in Murfreesboro.

The meeting at a restaurant with about 100 people became an elaborate debriefing of five Republican legislators on bills that passed in the General Assembly this year, the histories behind some of those bills and some of the aftershocks that continue to rumble on some of the most controversial legislation.

Ketron found himself the focus of a lot of it, mostly because of his efforts on the anti-bullying law and the “material support” bill that began on a highly controversial note because of its early inclusion of references to Sharia law, which was ultimately yanked from the legislation before it passed.

Debate was scarce at Thursday’s event, since the lawmakers were basically preaching to the choir, a setting organized by the Rutherford County Republican Party, the 9.12 Project of Rutherford County and the Rutherford County Tea Party. Ketron was joined by Sen. Jim Tracy, R-Shelbyville, Rep. Joe Carr, R-Lascassas, Rep. Mike Sparks, R-Smyrna, and Rep. Rick Womick, R-Rockvale.

The full story is very long.

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