Camper blasts House Speaker’s move to cut health department autonomy
“For many years the Republican Party said that decisions were best left to the local authorities and that the level of government closest to the people is the best judge of what to do,” said House Minority Leader Karen Campe, seen here with G.A. Hardaway in 2011. “Now that they have the majority, they want to centralize power in their hands in Nashville.” (Erik Schelzig/AP file)
House Minority Leader Karen Camper criticized plans by House Speaker Cameron Sexton to kill the independence of Shelby County’s Health Department amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Sam Stockard is a Nashville-based reporter with more than 30 years of journalism experience as a writer, editor and columnist covering the state Legislature and Tennessee politics for The Daily Memphian.
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