Tennessee lawmakers moved a step closer Wednesday to replacing the boards that oversee regional and metropolitan airports across the state. An amended version of Senate Bill 2473 advanced from the Senate Transportation and Safety Committee and would vacate existing airport authority boards, replacing them with new panels appointed largely by state officials. The amendment says the governance of regional and metropolitan airports is a matter of statewide concern.
For metropolitan airport authorities, the amendment would create nine-member boards with two appointments each from the speaker of the House, speaker of the Senate and governor, plus three from the executive officer of the creating municipality, subject to local approval.
Commissioners could not have a financial interest in the airport or its concessions and could not be officers or employees of the creating or participating municipality.
The amendment also says appointing authorities “shall strive to ensure that the membership is representative of the geographic and demographic composition” of the state or municipality and that “at least one (1) commissioner is a female.”
The bill also would affect Tennessee’s Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority, which oversees Memphis International Airport.
“The Memphis-Shelby County Airport Authority (MSCAA) is aware of introduced legislation in the Tennessee General Assembly regarding how airport authorities at commercial service airports in the State are constituted,” the authority said in a statement to local ABC 24. “The MSCAA will always maintain compliance with all applicable federal, state, and local laws.”
The amendment says the act would take effect immediately for appointing commissioners and on July 1, 2026, for vacating and reconstituting existing airport boards.
Misogynists Trump & Vance are not gonna like that DEI shyt requiring a female member if they hear about it. Kind of astonished that White Nationalist Christian Tennessee would put that in there unless they think these committees will need someone who can make sammitches for the rest of ‘em.
You know that a mug of “Jim Jones Kool-Aid” will cure your hot gas blathering of TDS Tourettes.
Is there any justification for this? I didn’t see any allegations of mismanagement in the article. Or is it simply a Travelgate-style thing where all competent people must be replaced by lawmakers’ friends (including a few obligatory women).
My post was relevant to the unexplained inclusion of a mandatory woman, Ms or Mr “EnoughBS”. And unlike your vapid splurge, it was further based on fact with Trump’s “grab ‘em by the pussy’ and Vance’s “childless cat lady” put downs. The misogyny of Donald Trump is hard to miss. From openly bragging about being able to sexually assault women because he is a celebrity to being held liable by a jury for raping E. Jean Carroll to talking about women in every context in degrading and dehumanizing terms. And while in the White House and on the campaign trail for the 2024 presidential election, Trump has supported a range of laws and policies that are harmful to women. These are, of course, not unrelated facts. Men who hold sexist attitudes about women behave in ways that reflect and reinforce those ideas.
Trump’s running mate, Senator J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), also seems to think precious little of women, although the revelations so far do not involve allegations of assault. He’s more focused on the “childless cat ladies” who he fears have taken over the world. Maybe he won’t grab anyone by the pussy—let’s hope not—but make no mistake, he will insult women at every opportunity and push for a world in which women remain subordinate to men.
And I don’t think even rabid white Christian nationalists accuse Democrats of being in a cult where your and MAGA’s fact-averse adorational behavior is the personification of it.
Can we get back to the subject now:that odd DEI-tainted power grab?
Pretty rich coming from a man that clapped like a deranged harp seal over a fake president that showers with his teenage daughter and openly sniffs and gropes young girls in front of cameras. Your boy Biden had the Epstein files for 4 years and did nothing, and you didn’t care. That makes you an irrelevant tool; go put on your frog outfit and attend the old geezers’ no-king marches. By the way, didn’t you attend any of the Democrats’ coronations of their presidential queen, Kamala? Who voted for her in the primary? Oh wait, no primary. What about democracy?
You refuse to return to aviation issues and like a total MAGA cult member can only insult and assume. Fact free especially about me, a Goldwater conservative. I despised Kamala who slept her way into her California jobs but at least Sleepy Joe never threatened democracy as Trump does daily nor did he demean my fellow veterans nor pardon over a thousand thugs and cop beaters nor blatantly lie hourly. Enjoy your promised “cheapest gas and groceries with no more wars” sucker. BTB The Tennessee MAGA morons behind this bill already lost in court when they tried to take over just the Nashville airport authority in violation of home rule but we know what Trump‘s tools think of courts and Congress and the rule of law.
Your TDS is severe; you dodged every point I brought up and yet continue to blather incoherently about Trump. You despised Kamala, yet voted for her; there’s no threat to democracy here with the democrat kings appointing her queen and refusing the leftist rubes a vote. 70% of America’s veterans support Trump; fact-check that Stevey, Biden holds the record with several thousand “auto-pen pardons”; fact-check that Stevey, Gas is still cheaper today than 4 years under Biden. You are the deceiving spewer of lies; go look in the mirror and ask yourself what the heck is wrong with you. Don’t like Trump? Go vote one of your carnival clowns into office in 2028.