Age
39
Education
Chattanooga State Community College
Work experience
Tennessee Air Guard (Current), Electrician (Current), Valley Region Coordinator of The TN Libertarian Party (2022 - 2026)
Phone Number
4232981929
Economics, Education, Healthcare.
Economics: Hyper focusing on federalism and getting TN residents healthy and wealthy by advocating for trade schools, farms, infrastructure, and anything else that sets the next generation up for success. Education: TCAT, TN Promise, and TN Reconnect are all examples of how limited scope, statistics-based State level frameworks can help motivated people attain marketable skills quickly and affordably. Healthcare: Rural Tennessee hospitals are closing mainly because they lose money on patient care. Low patient volume, high uninsured rates (Tennessee never expanded Medicaid), private-insurer underpayments, Medicare Advantage denials, staffing shortages, and the end of pandemic aid have left many with no financial cushion. Direct Primary Care.
I believe the economy is upstream from most social issues. Americans have lost 30% of their buying power in the last 6 years due to inflationary policies. The federal government has reached 40 Trillion in debt this year. Monetary inflation is a hidden tax especially for the working poor. It doesn't take a lot of thought to figure out why many young people are attracted to Marxist ideas. The policies of the last 50 years have favored immediate gratification over future generations. We need to hyper focus on federalism and get TN residents healthy and wealthy by advocating for trade schools, farms, infrastructure, and anything else that sets the next generation up for success. This includes harnessing AI, not fearing it.
We should create frame works for parents that home school to be able to write off expenses the same as a private contractor. We should incentivize micro schools to set up shop. The public school system is often all that's available for many parts of TN including District 31. I would rather see a true free market of education rather than this never ending fight over who gets money while test scores are in the gutter and many kids have trouble with math and reading despite having $7000 a year attached to each pupil. We need an all above approach to education and realize that schools often serve as daycares in addition to education centers for working families. The goal should be education, not fund allocation.
The state legislature should support counties and municipalities to forge their own path in regards to what enterprises they wish to have in their areas. I believe in small government and that means locals decide their future, NOT the the state.
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Age
31
Education
High School Graduate / Some College
Work experience
Military Police Officer, Corrections, Self Employed 1099
Phone Number
9314143401
Healthcare access
Educational concerns / Property Taxes
Access to safe water
Healthcare - TN rejects 1-2 billion in Medicaid Expansion funding each year, this potentially effects 300,000 Tennesseans. In this instance, more funding is absolutely needed. We should accept the funding and provide healthcare to as many people as possible.
Educational concerns- School systems across the State are eating fund balances like candy. The State and Federal Gov have cut grants, expanded vouchers, leaving the Local Gov to clean up the mess. When Schools aren't properly funded by those entities your property taxes make up the difference and tax dollars we are already paying to the State and Federal Gov get spent out of the district.
Rural communities across the district are in dire need of infrastructure funding.
We need to stop rewarding Corporations who use and abuse their employees, tenants, etc.
Tax breaks and other benefits should only go to those who truly do their level best to support those keeping them afloat.
Eliminate the Grocery Tax
Accept Medicaid Expansion
The State Legislature should stop making decisions without consulting teachers and parents. These decisions should not be influenced by big ticket donors like "Americans for Prosperity."
My plan for education involves a hands-on approach actually communicating with educators across my district. I don't believe throwing sums of cash at a problem is always a valid solution either, let's sit down and talk with the ones dealing with it every day. If its funding they need, that's what they'll get. We will repeal Bill Lee's voucher scam regardless.
I believe Data Center regulation should be regulated on the local level, as a current County Commissioner I can say we are very capable of handling that situation and are in the process of doing so. There is so much dirty money flowing through the legislature in regard to Data Centers, I have little faith they could accomplish something.
