NASHVILLE, TN – A resolution expressing the state Senate’s opposition to the possible use of any public or private prison, jail or detention facility in Tennessee to house terrorists transferred from the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is moving toward passage in the state Senate.

The resolution, sponsored by Sen. Jim Tracy, R-Shelbyville, passed the Senate Finance, Ways & Means committee on a unanimous 11-0 vote.

“Barack Obama made a rash promise to close the terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay at the end of the year even though he had no plan for what to do with the hundreds of terrorists held there,” said Bill Hobbs, communications director for the Tennessee Republican Party. “Sen. Tracy’s resolution is just part of the growing opposition across the country to moving these dangerous terrorists into American communities.

“Barack Obama’s order to close Gitmo was pure political posturing, a payoff to his friends on the extreme anti-war Left,” Hobbs said, “but Americans know that America will not be made safer by moving hundreds of terrorists onto American soil.”

About Sen. Jim Tracy
Sen. Jim Tracy represents Senate District 16, which includes Bedford and Moore Counties and part of Rutherford County. An insurance agent, Tracy was elected in 2008 to his second four-year term in the state Senate. He chairs the Senate Transportation Committee and is a member of the Senate Education Committee, the Senate State & Local Government Committee, the Long Term Care Advisory Council, the Commission on Aging and Disabilities, and the Tennessee Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.

Senate Joint Resolution 0381: http://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default.aspx?BillNumber=SJR0381

Sen. Tracy’s website: http://www.capitol.tn.gov/senate/members/S16.html
Sen. Tracy’s email address: sen.jim.tracy@capitol.tn.gov