Brandon Puttbrese (Part 2): WTF Bills Were Passed Last Session?
CONTENT NOTE: This episode discusses Tennessee's abortion ban in specific terms, including the state's lack of exceptions for rape, incest, or minors, and references a proposed bill involving capital punishment for abortion. NOTE: This is Part 2 of the multi-part conversation with Brandon Puttbrese (Part 1 covered vouchers, school funding, and the K12 charter school story). Gloria and Brandon pick back up for a second, wide-ranging conversation covering Tennessee's abortion restrictions and a personal-privilege bill Gloria brought to add narrow exceptions, a wave of "Charlie Kirk" bills restricting campus speech and inserting religion into schools, a series of pro-corporate deregulation bills (including one custom-built for Elon Musk's Nashville tunnel project), state takeovers of local school boards and airports, an unfunded immigration enforcement mandate, and a rare bipartisan win on voting rights restoration. They close with what's giving Brandon hope: growing bipartisan coalitions and a new generation of candidates running on concrete, popular reforms. Full episodes and show notes: https://www.standingtallpod.com/episodes
