Rob Briley Talks

State Rep. Rob Briley sat down with John Rodgers of the Nashville City Paper to discuss his problems and how he is moving forward. Long story short, he doesn't have any plans to leave the legislature, and blames (or attributes) most of his problems to some undisclosed incident as a child. I'll leave it to you to read the whole interview and judge for yourself the sincerity of Rep. Briley in regards to his well-being, but in closing John Rodgers did ask Rep. Briley about some of the controversy over Medical Malpractice Reform.

Q: One last topic, medical malpractice reform … did you intentionally kill that bill by adding the locality rule?

A: Absolutely not. Absolutely not. That was something Sen. (Mark) Norris and I had been talking about for months, whether that was going to be a component to any type of reform that we wanted to do. He didn’t put it on in the Senate. He told me to put it on in the House if I could. Stuck it on in committee and ran with it.

The success or failure of any bill was never due to any of my personal problems.