Education

I believe public education is the key to a well-functioning society and a well-functioning democracy. Tennessee has the resources to create a standard of education that transcends all others.  According to the U.S. Census, our state ranks 45th out of 50 states in the amount of per-student dollars.
We can do better.  We must do better.
To do better, we must elect better leadership in our state government. People without the political will to allocate resources to public education have held the reins too long.

Guns

As a responsible gun owner and the grandmother of a fourth grader, I fully support the 2nd Amendment and the rights it conveys to us as citizens of the United States, while also being concerned about her safety in school and all others going about living their lives. But too often, we hear gun restriction opponents claim that any restrictions or regulations concerning guns will infringe on their rights. However, we never hear them talk about the correlating obligation – responsibility.
Rights and responsibility go hand in hand.
Without responsibility, anarchy exists.

Freedoms

Keeping our freedoms, as laid out in our Declaration of Independence, is at the heart of next year’s elections. Republicans like to say that we Democrats are trying to indoctrinate people, which is a lie. They are the ones working to brainwash Americans into their way of thinking by working diligently to distort our country’s history, to limit our young people’s access to books that inform, and to destroy our unalienable rights of equality, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We must fight to protect our freedoms by empowering the citizens of Tennessee and ensuring that everyone is treated equally.