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Capitol Hill Conversation: Why Sexual Harassment Continues To Cloud Tennessee Capitol

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Stephen JerkinsWPLN
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It’s been only five months since state Representative Jeremy Durham was expelled from the Tennessee General Assembly amid allegations he’d sexually harassed nearly two dozen women.

But lawmakers are already wrestling with the issue again, following the resignation of another legislator: Memphis Representative Mark Lovell. Just weeks after being sworn in, he was accused of touching a woman inappropriately.

In this week’s Capitol Hill Conversation, Nashville Public Radio’s Jason Moon Wilkins and statehouse reporter Chas Sisk talk about the problem of sexual harassment at the state Capitol:

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Chas Sisk, Senior Editor

Chas joined WPLN in 2015 and became an editor in 2018. Previously, he covered state politics for Nashville Public Radio and The Tennessean, and he’s also reported on communities, politics and business for a variety of publications in Massachusetts, New York and Washington, D.C. Chas grew up in South Carolina and attended Columbia University, where he studied economics and journalism.

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