TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Dec 16, 2022

Two weeks after narrowly losing a bid for re-election as House Democratic Caucus chairman, Rep. Vincent Dixie, D-Nashville, says House Speaker Cameron Sexton interfered in his leadership election by leaning on colleagues to vote against him. Dixie was defeated by Rep. John Ray Clemmons, D-Nashville, by one vote. “[Sexton] made threats that there would not be certain things that would take place if I was the chairman,” Dixie told Tennessee Lookout this week. Asked if he threatened Democrats, Sexton said, “Neither I nor any Republican had a vote in their caucus meeting; it was up to Rep. Dixie to get a simple majority ... which apparently he was unable to achieve.”