Charlie Kirk Day bill starts raucous debate in House committee

(The Center Square) – Tennessee lawmakers spared a bill that would designate Sept. 10 as Charlie Kirk Day in Tennessee.

Kirk was killed on Sept. 10 while speaking at Utah Valley University.”He’s someone I think, is a luminary, not just for young folks but for all of us in public life,” said Brentwood Republican Gino Bulso, the bill’s sponsor.The bill spurred dissent from Democrats and heckling from a protester eventually escorted out of the committee room after the vote.Rep. Vincent Dixie, R-Nashville, told Bulso that he should be ashamed for bringing the bill.”This is embarrassing and it’s almost unfathomable that plenty of the bills that we have talked about here do nothing to help people’s lives, do nothing to put more food on the table, do nothing to help the unhoused, do nothing to help people get health care,” Dixie said. “But we’re putting these bills here to create a divisive culture which we should be coming together.”Dixie and Rep. Justin Jones, D-Nashville, each referred to Kirk as a “racist...