Speaker Kent Williams has just released this well-crafted response to the TNGOP's stripping him of his Republican bonafides: Robin Smith has determined that I am not a Robin Smith Republican---that is a Republican in her mold.

I have hoped for some time that my party would work to build a bigger tent, a more inclusive tent. My hopes may have been in vain. The tent Robin Smith wants is a small tent. A narrow-minded tent. A tent with no room for alternative ideas.

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