A recent Vanderbilt poll indicated that 56% of Tennessee voters felt that the General Assembly spent too much time on peripheral issues and not helping boost the state economy.
A related story in Nooga.com stated:
“In particular, it’s clear that voters are fed up with the General Assembly’s obsession with issues that are not vital to the daily lives of Tennesseans,” Paul Smith, chairman of the Hamilton County Democratic Party, said in a prepared statement"