When Harwell was elected Speaker, I knew that for Republicans it would be 'business as usual'. She is not a conservative. She is in it for the power and wants to be Governor after Haslam. As Speaker, she has been the primary person who decides what does, or does not , go to the floor for a vote. She has worked diligently behind the scenes to suppress efforts to pass a state constitutional amendment against an income tax.
As for the 'property rights' argument against the Safe Commute Act, it's a red herring. When you park you car in a shopping mall parking lot, does that give the mall the right to search your car on a whim? If not, then why does that give them the right to dictate what legal objects you can have inside it? Can they dictate a 'no bibles' rule? How about a rule saying 'no political books or fliers'? But, it's somehow OK for them to dictate that you can't keep your legal firearm in that same vehicle? How does THAT make any sense?
Harwell blew it. She supported a bunch of her fellow RINOs, and now wants to pretend to be conservative. Sorry, but there is too much evidence of her duplicity to allow that. Bye, bye, Beth!