The Tennessee Star has obtained an audio recording of a group of far-Left agitators who met over the weekend to discuss plans to disrupt the Tennessee legislature’s August special session on “public safety,” which critics say is really an effort by Governor Lee to pass red flag laws and other gun control measures.
The recording, which is nearly two hours in length, provides insight into what the political Left is planning, from legitimate protesting up to and including possible acts of domestic terrorism.
Over the coming days, The Star will be releasing portions of the audio in several different news stories.
The event took place Saturday at 50 Vantage Way in Nashville, in which Planned Parenthood has an office.
It was audio recorded by a source who then turned the recordings over to The Star. That source said the event was attended by about 30 people, and the event as “somewhat open to the public,” but said that it appeared to be more of a word-of-mouth gathering.
The all-day meeting featured local activists, including a local news reporter who offered participants a mini media training.
The event’s emcee was Julie Edwards, the Advocacy & Organizing manager for Planned Parenthood of Tennessee and North Mississippi. Edwards’ LinkedIn page says she also works in the same role for Tennessee Advocates for Planned Parenthood, the pro-abortion group’s political activism arm.
According to The Star’s source, the Executive Director of Tennessee Advocates for Planned Parenthood, Francie Hunt, was also in attendance.
At the beginning of the event, Edwards alluded to the fact that Planned Parenthood was funding the day’s activities.
“Keep in mind, the special session is August 21st, so everything we learn here today is to be applied towards the special session,” she said. “So, we are investing in y’all as activists, with the promise that y’all will show up when we need you to show up. Including August, but also I know some of y’all aren’t from Nashville so we’re trusting y’all to go back in your communities, share this information and f**k it up when it needs to happen.” (Emphasis added.)
One activist who led a session as part of the event included Katia Carillo, who introduced herself as a Nashville native and the founder of an organization called Conmigo (translated: with me) Consulting.
That organization, according to The Star’s source, is a local activist group that is run by Carillo and a few others. Conmigo Consulting does not appear to be a legal entity in the state of Tennessee, or anywhere else.
Other activists, whom The Star will identify later in this series, also participated.
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Pete D’Abrosca is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Pete on Twitter.
Photo “Tennessee State Capitol” by Ken Lund. CC BY-SA 2.0.
Yup, lucifer’s leftists.
Planned “MURDER” funded the vent? The same PP which receives $1.5 million a DAY from US taxpayers? How about we make them pay their own way?
Far Left always starts riots
Did you ever notice? Communist left = activists.
Conservative right…they are called domestic terrorists.
Especially those Catholics: watch out for those believers/worshipers.