During Tennessee’s recent special session, lawmakers considered and passed multiple pieces of legislation to provide relief to areas of the state that were impacted by Hurricane Helene last September.
Representatives and Senators alike were on board with this objective, however, many felt that action should have been taken sooner.
“I’m all for helping the folks impacted by Helene,” Rep. Monty Fritts (R-Kingston-District 32) told The Tennessee Conservative. “I was up there just a few days after the floods hit and Unicoi County, my Pastor and I went up, took a tractor and chainsaws, and it was horrific damage.”
Rep. Fritts told us that he and his pastor also brought supplies out to Cocke County during that time.
“We probably should’ve had a special session on this much earlier,” he said. “You know, it’s easy to play armchair quarterback and I don’t mean to be ugly with that, but we probably should have done this some time ago.”
