TO THE EDITOR:According to the June 16 edition of the Southern Standard, Republican state Rep. Paul Sherrell states that the reason the Tennessee legislature refused, again, to fund the Driver Testing Center was in retaliation for the three Republican legislators from this area (Bowling, Matheny, and Sherrell) opposing the Haslam administration's gas tax increase/ sales tax reduction bill. That reasoning does not hold water for at least two reasons. First, two years ago when there was NO gas tax legislation being proposed in the legislature, the legislative leaders and Gov.