Tennessee Holler, a progressive news site covering Tennessee politics and a former congressional candidate, issued a statement on Twitter talking about his family’s experience.“Our family’s statement on something that happened to us this weekend.
Love each other,” he tweeted.In the statement, Kanew claimed that last Saturday, an unknown person shot several bullets into his home while he and his family were asleep.
Although no one was injured in the incident, Kanew condemned the act saying that violence “has no place in a civilized society.”“The authorities have not completed their investigation and right now we do not know for sure the reason for this attack,” Kanew added. “We urge the Williamson County Sheriff’s office to continue to investigate this crime and help shed light on Saturday’s unfortunate events and bring the perpetrators of this crime to justice.”While it’s unclear who the alleged shooters were or what motivated them, Kanew has made a number of enemies — particularly within Tennessee’s Republican-dominated legislature — for his reporting on the goings-on at the State Capitol in Nashville.
In that role, he has employed a skeptical approach to reporting on GOP-sponsored legislation, including several anti-LGBTQ bills that were passed on party-line votes, such as a bill to ban drag performances in public spaces, a bill to bar gender-affirming care for transgender minors, and bar transgender students from restroom or locker room facilities matching their gender identities.
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