Too many Tennessee jokes on late night TV?
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Channel: chattanooga times free press · 2013 · News & Politics
State Democratic leader Roy Herron says he's tired of Tennessee politics being the go-to joke on late-night TV. Herron said quote "I remember when Tennessee was the leading state for economic development in the South... Now we rank No. 1 in the country for references and time on Colbert and late-night television." Herron said late night hosts like Stephen Colbert have poked fun at multiple Republican-backed bills this year, including a proposed law that would base welfare payments on students' performance at school. Colbert also spent considerable time on Stacey Campfield's 'Don't Say gay' bill and on a mop sink at the Tennessee capitol that legislators confused for a Muslim foot bath. Herron said, quote "I'm not making this stuff up... It has never been more important to be a Democrat than it is right now."
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