Conservatives and Tea Party activists in Tennessee have recently pushed several Republican Party county organizations to pass resolutions(see resolution below) criticizing the state’s Republican governor for, among other things, employing Muslims, gay people, and Democrats.

“The action or actions of the Republican elected Governor of the Great State of Tennessee and his administration have demonstrated a consistent lack of conservative values,” a resolution passed by the Stewart County Republican Party reads in part, according to a copy obtained by The Tennessean.

Three county party chairman — from Stewart County, Williamson County, and Humphreys County — confirmed to TPM that the resolutions had passed. Kyle Mallory, chairman of the Stewart County GOP, said that, all together, nine counties have passed related, though not identical, resolutions. (One county chairman is apparently holding the resolution for revision.) The resolutions, according to Mallory, address concerns ranging from the governor’s appointment process to “other conservative issues within the executive branch here in Tennessee.”

“Each county has done their own thing,” Mallory said.

The state party, meanwhile, considers the resolutions distractions involving only a minority of the state’s 95 counties.

“We stand behind our governor, Gov. Bill Haslam, 100 percent,” state Republican Party Chairman Chris Devaney told TPM. “We do think, while the county parties are certainly free to pass such resolutions, that they’re distracting during an election year.”

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Stewart County

 Republican Party RESOLUTION

A RESOLUTION to request the State Executive Committee to take appropriate action against the administration of Governor Bill Haslam,

Whereas, the actions that The Tennessee Republican Executive Committee against Kent Williams needs to be commended,

WHEREAS, the action or actions of the Republican elected Governor of the Great State of Tennessee and his administration have demonstrated a consistent lack of conservative values and his administration’s policies are worse than the actions of Kent Williams,

WHEREAS, these actions or inactions have forced this GOP organization to lose the confidence in our Governor during an election year, these actions include but not limited to:

  • According to the Tennessean on January 15, 2012, Governor Haslam admitted to retaining 85% of the Democrat Governor Phil Bredesen’s Executive Service Employees.
  • One of the latest Executive Service Employees has included Samar Ali, an expert in Shariah Compliant Finance which is one of the many ways Islamic terrorism is funded. She is also a one-time Obama appointee and her family has a long history of supporting the Democrat Party.
  • Retained/hired a majority of democrat legislative liaisons from the Bredesen Administration that should have prevented the Planned Parenthood funding issue in the first legislative cycle.
  • Allowed and retained openly homosexuals to make policy decisions in the Department of Children’s Services.
  • Non-support/lack of leadership with regards to handgun carry permits holders in last legislative session.
  • Manipulated state law in the hire of a Commissioner of Education (from out of state), who has been an embarrassment to our Republican Legislature.
  • Refused to sign the Agenda 21 resolution passed by the state legislature (note that all Republicans voting in both the House and Senate voted yes).
  • Lied to party leaders by stating that changes would come after the TEAM act was passed, hiring people from the Obama administration was not the change we were promised.

BE IT RESOLVED BY THE Stewart County GOP, that we hereby urge The Tennessee Republican Executive Committee to take meaningful action against the Governor Bill Haslam ‘s Administration.