Nashville, TN – A resolution on Tuesday’s council agenda failed to proceed due to the opposition of two members. District 16 Metro Councilwoman Ginny Welsch and District 17 Metro Councilwoman Terry Vo cast the dissenting votes that blocked the unanimous consensus required for the suspension of rules.
That agenda item was the condemnation of the assassination attempt of former U.S. President Donald J. Trump. This suspension would have allowed a late resolution or ordinance to be considered.
Council rules stipulate that unanimous consent is necessary to alter the agenda for such late submissions, emphasizing the importance of agreement among all members for procedural changes.
A Nashville city councilwoman who is running for re-election this year, Ginny Welsch is in hot water after striking down a resolution condemning the assassination attempt against former U.S. President Donald Trump.
“I felt like this was kind of an opportunistic move on the part of my colleague,” Welsch said in a report by WKRN. “Donald Trump has been inciting violence for years, and inciting violence as a means to an end, and the fact that that violence came back to him and touched him is unfortunate, but it’s not unexpected.”
Councilwoman Courtney Johnston who introduced the agenda item said she will try again at the council’s next scheduled meeting.
“It touched Mr. Trump, because Mr. Trump has been calling for this and that people heeded his call,” she said in a video.
Welsch is married to obscure singer and songwriter Mike Muldoon, whose top song on Apple Musc is entitled “What are Doing’ Hanging with Putin, a bizarre diatribe related to the left’s Russia hoax between Trump and Vladimir Putin.
