State Sen. Charlane Oliver (D-Nashville) was not quiet on social media Friday, two days after legislation she co-sponsored died at the hands of a fellow Democrat.
The “Homes Not Hedge Funds Act" died in the House Cities and Counties Subcommittee Wednesday. Rep. Vincent Dixie (D-Nashville) introduced a motion to hear the bill, but it never received a second motion to be considered in the subcommittee — which has only one other Democrat, Rep. Bo Mitchell (D-Nashville). Mitchell argued the bill — which aimed to prohibit businesses and investors from buying up large quantities of single-family homes — was Trumpian in nature.
Behn and Mitchell butt heads over bill designed to limit single-family home purchases by businesses
Having earned bipartisan support for the bill in the Senate, Oliver took to her Facebook and Instagram accounts to describe her anger with Mitchell. Oliver alleges in her post that Mitchell’s failure to support the bill was due to pettiness. Rep. Aftyn Behn (D-Nashville) — who sponsored the legislation in the House — won the 7th Congressional District Democratic primary in October, beating Mitchell, Dixie and Darden Copeland. Behn ultimately lost the general election to Matt Van Epps.
“F-CK YOU, Bo Mitchell,” Oliver writes in her post. “You a low-down, backstabbing, misogynistic punk ass b-tch. You know what you did and why you did it. You're holding a grudge because you lost the primary to a woman. Badly. Bigly. And because I supported her in the general, I gotta catch a stray? Killing my bill was a gutter-trifling move. Killing my bill as a fellow Democrat is unacceptable and unforgivable.”
Mitchell previously told the Scene his decision not to back the bill had nothing to do with losing the primary. According to leaked texts published by the Nashville Banner, Mitchell said Behn “might understand” his vote when she owns a home — to which Behn responded, “Go fuck yourself.”
Oliver offered similar sentiments in her post.
“When I see you, I'm cussing you out on sight,” Oliver writes. “From asshole to appetite! Yeah, I got your number, but the words I got for you ain't going in a text message.”
A Facebook post from Charlane Oliver, March 13, 2026 (click to expand)
“And don't be sending your legislative assistant to do your dirty work, sitting in on the press conference to intimidate me and spy on me,” Oliver says in a portion of her diatribe that has since been deleted from the post. “Next time she do it, I'm bringing her to the front too y’all both can get it. Again — a cowardly snake move! We expect retribution like this from the other side, but not Democrats kneecapping their own.”
But Behn and Mitchell’s disagreement over affordable housing initiatives dates back to last year’s primary. During a Sept. 7 Democratic forum in Fairview, Mitchell brought up his attendance at a ribbon-cutting ceremony for McCrory Flats, an affordable housing development in Nashville supported by state and city housing agencies — as well as private partners including the Amazon Housing Equity Fund and Bank of America.
“Amazon is giving billions of dollars in affordable housing in the country, so we need to get more people like that who’ve used our economy for their betterment for too long — we've got to get them more involved in helping to solve this crisis,” Mitchell said.
Behn criticized Amazon and likened its corporate initiatives to company towns — developments where most homes and businesses are owned by large companies that employ most of the area’s population.
“I'm sorry, but if [Amazon CEO] Jeff Bezos, or [Meta CEO Mark] Zuckerberg or any other billionaire would like to help solve our homeless problem and housing problem, I'm ready to step up and put all other partisan differences aside,” Mitchell responded at the time. “And let's get some people some housing in this country, and let them do something good for a change, or we can be so naive to just be so anti-everything and not work with anyone. I'll be willing to work with anyone who wants to do something good for this state.”
Mitchell has not responded to the Scene’s request for comment following Oliver’s Friday post.
Hamilton Matthew Masters contributed reporting.
