"She’s a product of not very far from here, in Waverly, Tennessee, where she was most likely to succeed in her class, a member of the 4-H. Her dad is a colonel in the Tennessee National Guard. This is somebody that’s very Tennessee, and I think maybe the important thing to recognize is this is somebody who could have a lot of great jobs in a lot of places."

— In which Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam (R), kindly tells conservative critics upset over the appointment of a Muslim woman to a state office, to back off. 

(Source: motherjones)

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