The Loyal Opposition, March 26, Indivisible TN & Shout Your Cause

The Loyal Opposition

S03 E09 March 26, 2025

[00:00:00] Michele: Good afternoon, middle Tennessee. This is Michele Harbin

and Len Assante.

[00:00:26] Len: Hello everybody,

[00:00:26] Michele: and this is the Loyal Opposition coming to you live from

Portland, Tennessee and Sumner County. So Len, what's going on in the news

today?

[00:00:37] Len: Oh man. There is a lot going on in the news. Going on in the

news.

So much so that look at all these papers I had to print out. But what's really

exciting is our friend Mandy Cook is back with us.

[00:00:48] Mandy: Yeah. Thanks for having me back.

Sure. And Mandy's like our. I think we need to rebrand ourselves the indivisible

Tennessee Radio Network. Great. I can just come on and plug every week what

we're doing.

[00:00:59] Len: We're so [00:01:00] good with that. We are. That's part of why

we are here, part of what we do. Indivisible, you guys had a protest, held a

protest at Representative John Rose's Gallatin office last week. Before you tell

us about what's coming up, why don't you tell us how that went?

[00:01:13] Mandy: Yeah. It went really well. We had a good turnout. We had a

good press turnout. We had about 30 people show up, and I've seen stories

floating around. Yeah, I, the media covered it. I had no idea how many people

planned on showing up, so I was just pleased that there were more than a

handful of us.

[00:01:30] Michele: you said Thirtyish or So Yeah,

[00:01:31] Mandy: Yeah, about 30 people came out and John Rose, not

surprisingly, was not at his office. We were instead greeted by Ray Render, his

the lieutenant. Yes. Deputy Lieutenant Michele's buddy. Something. Oh, Ray,

go way back. Oh, Ray. Yeah, so Ray did hold a forum with us, which it was

good to be able to have a platform for people's voices and concerns to be heard.

He really didn't [00:02:00] answer any questions. He just took notes and the

beginning one was a little bit bizarre. He wanted everybody to sign a HIPAA

release, which I think was a little bit of a scare tactic.

A HIPAA release.

It was, yeah. He said it was very standard because that there were, because there

were press in the room. Oh gosh. Okay. We all know that's not true. So we got

off to a little bit of a rough start, but interesting. It was very bizarre. HIPPA.

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