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41...... EARLY VOTING SCHEDULE AND LOCATIONS The President of The United States of America

The President is the chief public representative and the head of government of the United States of America and Commander-in-Chief of all five branches of the U.S. Armed Forces. According to the U.S Constitution, the President’s ultimate responsibility is to “preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.” In contrast to many countries with similar forms of government where presidents or heads of states are more ceremo- nial, the President of the United States has significant authority and power. The President has the power to either sign legislation into law or veto bills enacted by Congress, although Congress may override a veto with a two-thirds vote of both houses. Article 2, Section 2 of The United States Constitution states that the president “shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the Supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for...”. The Supreme Court appointment is of significance, as it is a lifetime appointment. One area that grants presidential power is the issuance of executive orders, a directive from the President that has much of the same power as a federal law. Executive orders influence the internal functioning of government, determining how laws are enforced, and are often used to deal with emergency situations like war, and in the implementation of policies and broad statutes. All presidents have issued executive orders, some more than others, although there is no direct definition, right or limitations for the use of executive orders in the US Constitution. Executive orders are subject to judicial review and may be overturned if the order is not supported by statute or the Constitution; some require 2 approval by the legislative branch. Once issued, executive orders remain in force until they are canceled, revoked, deemed unlawful, or expire on their terms. The president has the power to cancel, modify, or make exceptions for any previously issued executive order, even those issued by a predeces- sor. During the first few weeks of office a president will typically review all executive orders currently in force. The President also serves as Chief Diplomat, which shapes American Foriegn Policy. Along with Chief Citizen, with the expectation that they will provide an example of moral character and integrity while representing all citizens of the United States.

The Vice President of The United States of America

The vice president acts as second in command to the president. Vice presidential candidates campaign alongside their presidential running mates, serve a term of four years if elected, and must meet the same requirements as those of potential presidents. The vice president must be a natural born U.S citizen, at least 35 years of age, and must have lived in the United States for a minimum of 14 years. The first and arguably most vital role of the vice president is that the position ranks first in the presidential line of succession. The 25th Amend- ment to The United States Constitution clearly dictates that, if the president becomes incapacitated, dies, resigns or is removed from office, the vice president assumes the office of the president. The second vital role of the vice president is to preside over the US Senate. The vice president is expected to maintain order and decency, recognize members to speak, and interpret the Senate’s rules, practices, and precedents. As president of the Senate, the vice president may only vote to cast a tie-breaking vote. In the modern day, the vice presidential role also functions as an important presidential advisor. Additionally, presidents in recent years have delegated authority to vice presidents in order to handle significant issues independently. During Barack Obama’s administration, then vice president Joe Biden was assigned directly by the president to oversee Iraq policy. In 2020, Donald Trump assigned current vice president Mike Pence the duty of overseeing the COVID-19 task force. 3 PRESIDENT / VICE The incumbent President of the United States of Amer- ica, Donald J. Trump, is a 74-year-old businessman, real-estate de- veloper and reality TV show host originally from New York, NY. He was elected in 2016 by winning the electoral college vote, despite losing the popular vote by three million. Trump has been married to his wife, Slovene model Melania Trump, since 2005, with whom he shares one son, Barron. His first marriage was with the Czech model, Ivana Zelníčková Winklmayr from 1977 until 1992. They have three children together, Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric. After his divorce in 1993, he married American actress, Marla Maple, after she gave birth to his fourth child, Tiffany. They divorced in 1999. Trump holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the DONALD TRUMP Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Upon gradu- President ation, he began working for his father’s real-estate business. In Republican 1974, he became president of a conglomeration of Trump-owned corporations and partnerships, which he later named the Trump Organization. He expanded the family business by investing in luxury hotels, residential properties, and casinos. Trump built his reputation as a shrewd businessman and self-made billionaire. However, Trump has also been part of numerous lawsuits and financial struggles throughout his career, including declaring bankruptcy on multiple businesses. In 1991, 1992 and 2009 his former online education company, Trump University, was the target of a class action lawsuit by former students and the New York attorney general. The lawsuit was settled in 2016 for $25 million. In 2019, two years into his presidency, Trump settled another lawsuit charging him of illegally using assets from his charity, the Trump Foundation, to fund his 2016 presidential campaign. This case was also settled for $25 million. In December of 2019, Trump became the third American President to be formally impeached by the House of Representatives, and the first President to be impeached during his first term. He was impeached for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, but remained in office when he was acquitted by the Senate. Trump’s campaign and presidency have been centered around his “America First” platform, with goals to “lower taxes for the American people, repeal and replace Obamacare, end stifling regulations, protect our borders, keep jobs in our country, strengthen military and law enforcement, renegotiate bad trade deals, and creating a government of, by, and for the people.” Since he took office in 2016, Trump has strongly expressed anti-immigration and anti-refugee stances. In 2017, he implemented multiple executive orders banning nationals from the countries of Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, and North Korea from entering the US. He was ultimately forced to revise these bans as they faced legal challenges of their constitutionality in lower courts. In June 2018, the Supreme Court upheld a revised version of the ban in a five to four ruling. Trump has also implemented a “zero tolerance policy” regarding the illegal immigration process. The result of this policy has led to the separation of some children and parents who have either entered the U.S. illegally, or who are attempting to cross the border. The crisis surrounding the treatment of these children, including the decision to separate them from their parents and place them in detention centers without adequate hygiene, cloth- ing, and food has gone largely unaddressed by Trump’s administration. Trump’s campaign goal of “protecting unborn life through every means available” has resulted in legislation that allows states to restrict funding to Planned Parenthood, and also expands the Mexico City Policy, which bans U.S. aid to any worldwide organization that performs abortions. Through the Education Innovation and Research Program, Trump has increased funding to promote school choice. Supporters of school choice want their education tax dollars routed away from public schools into private and parochial schools of their choice. During his 2016 campaign, Trump promised to appoint conservative judges. As of April 2020, Trump has installed 51 judges at the circuit court level — about 30 percent of all active judgeships — who sit at one level below the U.S. Supreme Court. Trump has appointed two 4 PRESIDENT / VICE of the nine justices to the U.S. Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh. In Septem- ber, Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court seat vacated by the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Sept. 18, 2020. In 2019, Trump signed the “John D. Dingell Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act of 2019” which protected more than 1.3 million acres of wilderness area and expanded several national parks. Conversely, Trump has also removed a number of wildlife protections, including the removal of two million acres in the Bears Ears National Monument and the Grand Staircase-Escalante in Utah. In 2017, Trump announced the U.S. would cease participation in the 2015 Paris Agreement, the first global, legally binding climate change agreement. For much of 2020, the U.S. has faced the challenge of containing the global outbreak of COVID-19. On March 27, Trump signed the bipartisan CARES Act, an over $2 trillion relief package which included assistance to small businesses, and payment to local, state and tribal governments. Individual Americans who qualified also received $1,200 in stimulus funds. The CARES Act also addressed unemployment due to widespread shelter in place orders and business closures by state and local governments. According to Trump’s campaign website, he hopes to have a vaccine for COVID-19 available by the end of the year, and wants the country to return to normal in 2021. Trump has been criticized for downplaying the virus and giving mixed messages about wearing a mask and social distancing in public. In April, the CDC updated its guidance for COVID-19 prevention, recommending face coverings for all adults in public areas where social distancing wasn’t possible. Trump delivered this news at a press conference adding, “I don’t think I’m going to be doing it.” To date, more than 200,000 Americans have died due to the COVID-19 Coronavirus. On Fri., Oct. 1, President Trump and his wife Melania, along with a number of Trump’s cabinet members and advisors, tested positive for COVID-19. The Trump administration has remained unresponsive to nationwide protesting of police brutality and the killings of unarmed Black Americans by police. During the first presidential debate of the 2020 election, President Trump evaded moderator and FOX News host Chris Wallace’s question asking Trump to condemn white supremacy and violent right wing white nationalist groups, who often cite Trump as their leader. As of September, 2020, at least 26 women have accused President Trump of sexual miscon- duct, including assault. Trump has dismissed all allegations, which include harassment, grop- ing, and rape, as “fabricated” and politically motivated accounts pushed by the media and his political opponents. In October of 2016, prior to his election, an “Access Hollywood” tape recording was published, in which Trump speaks of grabbing a woman by her genitals while in conversation with host Billy Bush. Recently, Trump has spoken publicly about his skepticism of the upcoming Nov. 3 presidential election, its legitimacy, and the potential for voter and ballot fraud. Fact checkers have found there is no evidence to support his claims.

Michael R. Pence is the 48th and current vice president of the United States. In 1959, he was born in Columbus, Indiana to working class parents who ran a convenient store business. He earned a Bachelor’s degree from Hanover College in 1981 and a law degree from Indiana University School of Law. He worked as a private practice attorney for several years and mounted two unsuccessful campaigns for Congress before becoming the president of Indiana Policy Review Foundation, a nonprofit that provides education on state and municipal issues. MIKE PENCE He then hosted The Mike Pence Show, a syndicated conversative talk radio show. Vice President In 2000, he again ran for Congress and served in the Republican 5 PRESIDENT / VICE House of Representatives until he was elected Governor of Indiana in 2013. As governor, Pence expanded Medicaid in Indiana under the Affordable Care Act. He faced widespread national backlash for signing the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which bans local governments from intervening if a business turns away customers for religious reasons. In 2016, then-candidate Donald Trump selected Pence as his running mate, citing his record of legislative and executive experience. As Vice President, Pence cast the tie-breaking vote to confirm Betsy DeVos as education secretary, the first time a Vice President’s vote was needed on a cabinet nomination. In 2017, Trump and Pence revived The National Space Council, and Pence has lobbied for $8 billion in funding for United States Space Force, an independent space warfare branch of the military. In 2020, President Trump placed Pence in charge of the government’s COVID-19 task force. Pence is a devout Christian and cites his faith as central to his politics. He is staunchly conservative on social issues, including support of a powerful U.S. military and a national right to carry firearms in public. He opposes same-sex marriage, amnesty for illegal immigrants, No Child Left Behind, and abortion rights. In recent appearances, he has echoed Trump’s law- and-order message, saying, “you won’t be safe in Joe Biden’s America.” Joseph “Joe” Robinette Biden Jr., a 77-year-old Catholic from Scranton, Pa., is the Democratic presidential nominee. Biden grew up in Scranton, Pa. and New Castle County, Del. and received his law degree from Syracuse University. If elected, he will become the second Catholic to be president of the United States. Since 1977, Biden has been married to Jill Biden, an educator, and they have one daughter, Ashley. From 1966 to 1972, Biden was married to his first wife, Neilia, and they had three children: Beau, Hunter, and Naomi. In 1972, Neilia and Naomi died in an automobile accident. In 2015, Biden’s son Beau died of brain cancer. JOE BIDEN After receiving his degree, Biden spent two years serving President as a law clerk and public defender before starting his own firm. Biden was elected to the New Castle County council in 1970 and Democrat two years later, at the age of 29, he was elected to the U.S. Senate. Biden would go on to become the longest-serving senator in Delaware. Biden pursued the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988, but was derailed when he admitted to plagia- rizing a speech, and a paper while in law school. In 2008, he ran again, unsuccessfully, and was later chosen to be Barack Obama’s vice presidential running mate. Biden served as Vice President of the U.S. from 2009 to 2017. According to allies, Biden’s devout Catholic faith defines his worldview and thus his politics. Over time, he has become less conservative in his views of LGTBQIA rights, and he has reversed his legal (but not religious) position on abortion. Biden supports continuing the Affordable Care Act, but opposes Medicare for All. In 2006, he voted to build additional walls and barriers along the U.S. and Mexico. He is against drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants and is opposed to decriminalizing illegal border crossings. Biden has pledged support to those in the U.S. as part of the DREAM Act (also known as Dreamers). He supported the Paris Agreement, but has not endorsed the Green New Deal. He released a proposal to spend $1.7 trillion on green energy technologies, but was criticized for copying passages from outside sources without attribution. Biden does not want to ban fracking, but will ban new drilling on public land. In the 1980s, Biden introduced bills that imposed mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses, and in the 1990s he helped to shape and pass the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. He is opposed to legalizing marijuana, but says he will decriminalize marijuana use and support legalization of medical marijuana. He is opposed to private prisons and the death penalty, but does not support defunding police departments or ending qualified immunity. He supported drone strikes in Syria and the Iraq War, but has since said he made “a bad judg- 6 PRESIDENT / VICE ment” regarding Iraq. Biden introduced the Violence Against Women Act, which was signed into law by former President Bill Clinton in 1994. Biden is more liberal-leaning in his stance on education, taxation, and gun control. He supports the expansion of student loan debt forgiveness, free college for families making less than $125,000, and universal preschool. He also supports universal background checks, even for peer-to-peer sales of guns. Biden wants to renew the federal assault weapons ban and is pushing for a federal buy-back program on assault weapons and high-capacity maga- zines. He supports higher taxes for those earning more than $400,000 per year, and wants to increase the corporate tax rate to 28 percent. There have been accusations that Biden has touched people inappropriately — smelling hair, rubbing noses, and touching shoulders — and in March 2020, he was accused of sexually assaulting a woman in 1993, but has denied the allegation.

Kamala D. Harris, the current U.S. Senator of California, grew up in Oakland, California and now lives in Los Angeles. She received her undergraduate degree from Howard University and her law degree from the University of California, Hastings. She is the first South Asian-American and second African-American woman senator in United States history. She started her law career in the Alameda County District Attorney’s office, moving her way up to San Francisco’s District Attorney, where she created a program to help first-time drug offenders earn a high school diploma and find work. After serving as the district attorney for six years, California elected her as the Attorney General for the state, where she helped homeowners KAMALA HARRIS during the foreclosure crisis by winning a $25 billion settlement, Vice President prosecuted transnational gangs for trafficking crimes, and helped Democrat secure marriage equality for each Californian citizen. As senator, she introduced bills for countless issues, such as criminal justice and wage reform. Harris’s economic policies focus on marginalized groups, such as women, people of color, and low-income Americans. She proposed a $2.8 trillion middle-class plan which would pay tax credits to match a person’s earnings up to $3,000, while phasing out for higher earn- ers and not being available to those who are in school, who don’t work, or have over $4,000 in investments. She’s also proposed a student-loan-forgiveness plan focusing on entrepre- neurs who start businesses in poor communities and maintain them for three years. She would also like to raise teachers’ salaries. Her health care plan would limit private insurers, giving Americans the choice between en- rolling in tightly regulated private health plans or picking a public one—seeking pay for costs without tax raises to the middle-class. She calls for new investments to address the nation’s Black maternal mortality crisis; black women are three times more likely to die from pregnan- cy-related complications than white women. She endorsed the Green New Deal and released a climate plan, pledging a $10 trillion investment to transition to clean-energy over the next 10 years. During the Covid-19 pandemic, she supported banning evictions and foreclosures, plus proposed sending as much as $2,000 to each citizen every month. Harris is a leading voice against separating children at the border. She advocates for more oversight in detention centers and for reinstating the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program. Harris believes the death penalty is unconstitutional. She wants to end mass incarceration through eliminating private prisons and mandatory minimum sentences, focusing on policies that target black and brown Americans. She also proposed a plan to reform the current cash bail system that disproportionately jails poor Americans who cannot make cash bail payments. 7 PRESIDENT / VICE DON BLAKENSHIP WILLIAM MOHR President / Vice President Independent Don Blankenship is the 2020 presidential nominee of the Constitution Party. The party was founded in 1990 by conservative activist Howard Phillips, originally called the “U.S. Taxpayers Party”, as a reaction to the presidency of George H.W. Bush, who Phillips deemed insufficiently conservative. The party’s platform has called for the elimination of Social Security, which it considers unconstitutional, and has proclaimed that Jesus and the Bible are the final arbiters of U.S. law. Blankenship, a 70-year-old West Virginian, is best known as the former chairman and CEO of Massey Energy, a multi-billion-dollar coal company with over twenty mines in West Virginia and Kentucky. Blankenship was in charge in April, 2010 when 29 miners were killed in an explosion at the Upper Big Branch Mine in Montcoal, West Virginia; the worst U.S. mining disaster in 40 years. Both state and federal investigations found Massey directly responsible for the disaster, and Blankenship served a year in prison for “conspiring to willfully violate safety standards.” Blankenship rejects the scientific consensus on climate change, and is running on the unequivocally right-wing platform of his party, which generally rejects federal control in favor of state’s autonomy. It calls for the elimination of the Internal Revenue Service and the Federal Reserve, and the repeal of the 16th Amendment, which allows the Federal government to tax interest and capital gains. The platform also urges minimal interaction with the world community and withdrawal from existing treaties, and is opposed to same-sex marriage and abortion under any circumstances. The vice-presidential candidate, William Mohr, is from Grand Rapids, Michigan. The 61-year-old former truck driver describes himself as currently “self-employed in the building/ maintenance trade,” and has headed the Michigan chapter of his party for many years. Both candidates are former Republicans, and urge voters to look beyond the two-party system for ways to improve the country; neither has ever been elected to public office. The Constitution Party has struggled from the start to qualify for the ballot in most states, and in 2020 is on the ballot in fewer than half. The highest percentage of the presidential vote count it has ever received was in 1996, when it got barely 1/5 of one percent of the vote.

ROQUE “ROCKY” DE LA FUENTE DARCY G RICHARDSON President / Vice President Independent Roque “Rocky” De La Fuente is a U.S. Presidential nominee for the newly formed Alliance Party. The Alli- ance Party was created for the purpos- es of uniting several smaller independent parties to put forward alternatives to the bi-partisan system. 8 PRESIDENT / VICE De La Fuente was born in San Diego in 1954. He earned bachelor’s degrees in physics and math from Instituto Patria in Mexico and completed graduate studies in business and accounting at UCSD. He went on to own 28 car dealerships in California before becoming a nationwide real estate tycoon and, ultimately, a perennial political candidate. He unsuccessfully ran for the Presidential nomination for the Republican Party this year, as well as for the U.S. House of Representatives for California. He also ran for U.S. Senate as a Republican in nine separate states in 2018, all of which he lost. Alongside VP Nominee Darcy G. Richardson, De La Fuente’s stated mission is to “break the two-party monopoly and fundamentally change the governing structure [of Amer- ica].” Their ticket supports universal single-payer healthcare via an expansion of Medicare; immigration reform that views undocumented workers as assets; and prioritizing education and climate change. His running mate, Darcy G. Richardson, is a political author and historian who has also run for several offices in multiple states, also across several party affiliations.

HOWIE HAWKINS ANGELA WALKER President / Vice President Independent Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker are running for president and vice president, respectively, as Green Party candidates. Hawkins is one of the founding members of the Green Party, first organized in 1984. He attended Dartmouth College but did not earn a degree. He started in politics in the 60s as a pro-civil rights and anti-Vietnam War activist. He worked in Syracuse, NY for almost two decades as a Teamster, America’s largest trade union. He has run for various offices 24 times but has never been elected. Angela Walker studied history at the University of North Florida before dropping out to work as a bus driver. She became known as a union organizer and activist and ran for sheriff in Milwaukee in 2014 on a platform of ending mass incarceration. She was the vice presidential nominee for the Socialist Party USA in 2016. Their platform centers on eco-socialist democracy and an Ecosocialist Green New Deal which would shift energy-production away from fossil fuels toward renewable and zero-emissions sources, thereby overhauling infrastructure, buildings, and transportation systems in the process. They believe that capitalism as a system is destroying the planet and invalidating the ideals of democracy. They maintain that unbridled capitalism benefits only those with large-scale ownership of capital, and they argue that it comes with hidden costs including ecological destruction and exploitation of workers. They also support universal single-payer healthcare, government-funding for college education, and expansion of public programs. Hawkins and Walker receive support from several smaller left-wing parties including Solidarity, The Socialist Party of America, and an LGBTQ caucus known as The Lavender Greens. 9 PRESIDENT / VICE JO JORGENSEN JEREMY “SPIKE” COHEN President / Vice President Independent Jo Jorgensen and Jeremy “Spike” Cohen are running for US President and Vice President, respectively, as Libertarian candidates. Their Libertarian platform prioritizes shrinking government and reducing its involvement in all the major issues including healthcare, economic regulation, incarceration, and immigration. This translates to policies that include: the decriminalization of all drugs and weapons, dismantling all tariffs and trade barriers worldwide, abolishing limits on immigration numbers, ending government subsidies for energy and agriculture, deregulating the nuclear power industry, eliminating the FDA and its oversight of medicines and food safety, withdrawing the armed forces from all foreign conflicts, ceasing all government mandates on COVID-19, and cutting government spending as much as possible. Dr. Joanne Jorgensen is from Libertyville, Illinois and holds a B.S. in Psychology from Baylor University, an M.B.A. from Southern Methodist University, and a Ph.D. in Industrial Psy- chology from Clemson University. She has been a full-time professor since 2006. She has been notably vocal about the perceived injustices of the two-party system and of not being granted a spot on the national presidential-debate stage, using the hashtag #letherspeak. Current debate protocol requires a candidate to poll at a minimum of 15% of the popular vote, and her platform does not show that level of support according to current sources. Running mate Jeremy Cohen is an entrepreneur, web designer and podcaster from Baltimore, Maryland. He was raised in the Messianic Jewish tradition. Upon receiving a diagnosis of multiple sclerosis at the age of 33, he turned his attention full-time to espousing libertarian ideals via his podcast “My Fellow Americans”.

ALYSON KENNEDY MALCOM JARRETT President / Vice President Independent Alyson Kennedy is the The Socialist Workers’ Party nominee for President, with running mate Malcolm Jarret as Vice President. Kennedy ran as The Socialist Workers’ Party’s Presi- dential candidate in 2016 and as their Vice Presidential candidate in 2008. She’s also been a recent Mayoral candidate for Dallas, Texas. Growing up in Indianapolis, Indiana, the Civil Rights movement inspired Alyson Ken- nedy to fight diligently to desegregate schools. She protested against the war in Vietnam and was a fact-finder for worker’s rights in the Kurdish area of Northern Iraq. In 1981, she went on strike with the United Mine Workers of America, as a veteran mine worker herself. Kennedy is a decades-long activist and advocate for working-people across the country. 10 PRESIDENT / VICE Kennedy worked as a teacher and worked in the garment and steel industries, giving her firsthand knowledge of teachers’, students’, and workers’ needs. She became a coal miner by breaking through established rulings to prevent women from working in mines. She currently works at Walmart, where she brings workers together to fight for higher wages and better working conditions.Kennedy actively fights for Puerto Rico’s sovereignty. She’s also pro- choice, an advocate for women’s rights, and an active fighter for trade unions. She is against the death penalty, seeks criminal justice reform, defends immigrant workers, and protests against police brutality and deportation raids. Malcolm Jarrett grew up in eastern Missouri in a working-class family. He attended Southeast Missouri State University and joined the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in 1991. Seeing the daily struggle of his community growing up, and the fall of the apartheid regime in South Africa, inspired him to fight for workers’ rights. Jarrett protests against police brutality and capital punishment. He was part of the May Day 2019 delegation to Cuba. He helped set up protests and protested in solidarity with teachers unions for fair wages, anti-war protestors, United Auto Workers, coal miners, and Lyft and Uber Drivers. He was the SWP candidate for Pittsburgh City Council in 2019. He believes in universal cradle-to-grave healthcare for all, retirement income for all, unions, workers’ rights, amnesty for undocumented immigrants, affordable housing, and justice system reform.

GLORIA LA RIVA SUNIL FREEMAN President / Vice President Independent Gloria La Riva is the 2020 presidential nominee of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Alongside La Riva is running mate is Sunil Freeman. According to their website, the Party for Socialism and Liberation believes “that capitalism—the system in which all wealth and power is held by a tiny group of billionaires and their state—is the source of the main problems confronting humanity today. It must be replaced by socialism, a system where poor and working people have power and the wealth of society is used in a planned and sustainable way to meet people’s needs.” La Riva was born in New Mexico and graduated from Brandeis University in 1976. While at Brandeis, she reached the conclusion that community action is the most important force to effect change. She began her activism in college, fighting to defend affirmative action. Since then she has been involved in numerous struggles and protests, including attending anti-apartheid protests in the 1970s, demonstrations against the Ku Klux Klan in the 1980s, and traveling to Venezuela to document the resistance to the US economic blockade in the 1990s. 1983, La Riva mounted an unsuccessful campaign for mayor of San Francisco. In 1994 and 1998, La Riva unsuccessfully ran as the Peace and Freedom Party’s candidate for governor of California. Since then, she has run unsuccessful campaigns as the Party of Social- ism and Liberation’s candidate, including presidential runs in 2008, 2012, and 2016. She also ran for Congress in 2010 and for Governor of California in 2018. La Riva believes that in order to create a just society, the political systems must reflect the people. She believes that the current American political structure reflects Eurocen- tric, capitalist, and sexist thought-systems and should be replaced with people who fight race, class and gender discrimination. Her running mate, Sunil Freeman, is a poet, essayist, and disability rights and anti-war activist. 11 PRESIDENT / VICE KANYE WEST MICHELL TIDBALL President / Vice President Independent Kanye West is running for President this election as an independent candidate. Born in 1977 in Atlanta, Kanye West is a multidisciplinary artist whose roles have ranged from rapper to fashion designer to music producer. Raised in Chicago by his mother, a college professor, West’s debut album mocked the educated, middle-class background from which he came. Ranked among the most successful music artists in history, West has sold over 140 million records and won 21 Grammy Awards. West was awarded an honorary doctorate by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2015. West has been outspoken about his political opinions. He has a demonstrated history of supporting education issues and organizations like Doctors without Borders and Human Rights Watch. Previously seen sporting a MAGA hat, he has developed a relationship with President Donald Trump, with visits to both the Trump Tower before the inauguration and the White House during Trump’s presidency. His political contributions include donating $1,000 to Barack Obama’s presidential re-election campaign in 2012, $15,000 to the Democratic National Committee in 2014, and $2,700 to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in 2016. West announced his presidential run through Twitter this past July. Throughout his career, West has consistently aimed to make money, follow God, and elevate Black America. His presidential platform includes police reform, reducing debt, pursuing clean air, and restor- ing prayer in the classroom. He has said that he hopes to run the White House like the Black Panther city Wakanda, to mix big pharma and holistic medicine to find a cure for AIDS, and to expand the NBA from “Nigeria to Nanchang.” His website outlines each of his ten policy ob- jectives which are bolstered with a bible passage. After missing several filing deadlines, West is suing to appear on the ballot in Texas, North Carolina, Florida, and Michigan. His running mate is Michelle Tidball, a biblical life coach from Cody, Wyoming.

12 UNITED STATES SENATE

One of two branches of Congress, Senate membership is limited to two members per state, making each state equally represented, in contrast to the House of Representatives, whose membership is based on state population. With 100 members, it is each states’ responsibility to elect two residents who are at least 30 years of age and have been a US citizen for at least nine years. Each senator serves a term of six years, with one third of the Senate being elected every two years. As they live in US territories rather than states, citizens in Puerto Rico, American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, and US Virgin Islands are not represented in the Senate. A senator’s role is to address the concerns, problems, and goals of their constituents - the people who voted the senator into office. Senators work with their staff to research topics, identify issues, and propose laws. The Senate is composed of five types of committees with there being 26 committees in total. Senators are required to serve on Senate committees that focus on areas such as health, education, armed services, national security and more. The head of the Senate is the current vice president, who only participates in voting to break a 50-50 tie. At a larger level, the Senate has three main responsibilities. First, the Senate can confirm or disapprove international treaties with a two-third vote. Second, it can confirm or disapprove presidential appointments like members of the Cabinet, Supreme Court justices, and members of the Federal Reserve. Consequently, the Senate can influence interest rates and monetary policy. Third, the Senate has the power to hold a trial, acting as jury and judge, for a federal official who has committed a crime against the country, like an impeachment trial. Tennessee has not elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1994, when Al Gore (D) served with Jim Sasser (D). Since 2003, Lamar Alexander (R) has served as Tennessee’s state senator and retired this year, leaving his seat open. After Bob Corker’s (R) 2019 retirement, Marsha Blackburn (R) was elected. With a record number of women currently serving in Congress, Blackburn is presently one of 26 women in the Senate.

13 US SENATE Bill Hagerty is a Republican running for Senate that is “100% pro-life, pro-gun, and pro-Trump.” He is also pro-Israel, opposed to radical Islamic terrorism, and supports standing up to China. Son of a veteran road builder and teacher, Hagerty was born in Gallatin, TN, where he “raised pigs and cattle, baled hay, and shoveled asphalt.” He is married to Chrissy Hagerty and has four children. Hagerty graduated from Vanderbilt with a B.A. in Eco- nomics and then a J.D. before starting his career in the financial sector with the Boston Consulting Group, where he spent three years based in Tokyo. He formed a private equity investment BILL HAGERTY firm and has served as economic advisor to George H. W. Bush, Bill Haslam, and Mitt Romney. Hagerty was on John McCain’s US Senate transition planning team and Donald Trump’s presidential tran- Republican sition team. Before throwing his support behind Trump, Hagerty first supported Jeb Bush and then Marco Rubio. He has served as ambassador to Japan for the past two years, where he “monitored closely the actions of China” while working on an international trade deal with the Japanese government, which cut tariffs on agriculture and manufactured products. Hagerty felt called to run for Senate after seeing that Tennessee and the nation were being threatened by a “liberal socialist agenda,” and after being encouraged by Trump to run for office over a game of golf. His goals are to stand with Trump, stop illegal immigration, build the wall, and confirm constitutionalist judges. More recently, he has supported Gov. Lee’s pursuit of a state law restricting abortion. On Twitter, Hagerty retweeted President Trump’s “LAW & ORDER!” tweet, and claimed that Biden wouldn’t release his Supreme Court list because he wants to fill it with “radical activists.” He supports President Trump and the GOP in filling the Supreme Court justice vacancy before the election. On Sept. 17, in response to national protests against police brutality, he tweeted that “our law enforcement officers are the only thing standing between anarchy and your family’s safety.” Marquita Bradshaw grew up in South Memphis, TN. The 46-year-old is a proud mother, community organizer, and graduate of the University of Memphis, where she earned a Bachelor of Liberal Studies degree. In August, Bradshaw beat her opponent, James Mackler, and his campaign budget of $2.1 million, with an $8,420 grassroots-raised budget to secure the Democratic nomination and become the first black woman to be nominated by a major party in Tennessee. A career activist with a long history of advocating for social and environmental justice issues, she has been involved in volunteer- ing and community organizing in the Memphis community for MARQUITA over a decade. She has worked with organizations like the Mem- phis Community Advisory Board, the AFL-CIO, and Tennesseans BRADSHAW for Fair Taxation. She has served on boards of organizations like US Senate the Mid-South Peace and Justice Center and has received awards Democrat and commendations from organizations like the Sierra Club. Bradshaw has received endorsements from organizations like the Sunrise Movement, Sierra Club, and the United Autoworkers Union in Nashville. She has also received endorsements from Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, and Pete Buttigieg’s PAC Win the Era. Bradshaw is running to support healthy and safe communities in Tennessee. She backs the Green New Deal, community policing and restorative justice, high quality public education, Medicare for All, a living wage and workers’ rights, universal background checks for gun pur- chases, and overturning Citizens United. 14 US SENATE Yomi “Fapas” Faparusi is running as an independent candidate for US Senate. Faparusi ran as a Republican candidate for the U.S. House in 2014 and 2016. Fapas, his wife, and their three sons are all current members of the Fellowship Bible Church in Brentwood, TN, where he also owns a small business as an immigration attorney. Faparusi was born in Ibadan, Nigeria and was raised on a university campus tending to chickens for his family’s business. His childhood experiences made him passionate about small business rights and he is using this as a platform for his campaign. He earned an M.D. from the University of Ibadan in 1997, a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health in 2005, and a YOMI “FAPAS” J.D. from Widener University School of Law in 2009. Given the current COVID-19 pandemic Fapas aims to FAPARUSI JR. bring his knowledge as a licensed physician to his seat in the US Senate Senate to create policies focused on improving healthcare. Other Independent cornerstone issues for Fapas include the election of “common-sense” judges, immigration, economic recovery, fostering aid to small businesses, and improvement of the state educational system.

Jeffrey Grunau is running as an independent candidate for US Senate. Granau also ran for the U.S. House of Representa- tives in 2018. A Knoxville, TN native, Grunau received his Bache- lor’s degree in Finance from the University of Memphis. Grunau is passionate about putting partisan politics aside and working together to improve our country, and thus, our world. His campaign is working to promote the reality that, “…politicians alone cannot solve the world’s greatest problems and that individual responsibility is equally important, if not more.” Another primary area he hopes to address is the $21 trillion national debt that will require bipartisan effort. He plans to use measures such as reducing military spending and changing JEFFREY ALAN Social Security to improve this economic crisis. Grunau believes that we can no longer wait for campaign finance reform to take GRUNAU place and that it is our responsibility to actively participate in our US Senate elections and thus the betterment of our country. Independent Ronnie Henley, an independent candidate for U.S. Senate, was born in Milan, TN and currently resides in Newbern, TN. A self-identified Christian, he graduated with honors from Penn Fos- ter High-School. This will be Henley’s second candidacy; he ran for TN House of Representatives in 2019. When interviewed by the TN Wildlife Federation about his views on the most important issues facing our natural resources, Henley answered that support for private land management for wildlife would be his priority. His other priorities include extra funding for wildlife research, a massive waterway cleanup, and investment in land conservation and wildlife management to deter threats to endangered species. RONNIE HENLEY Henley’s stance on key issues include improving the economy through money management, providing school vouchers for US Senate charter schools that will not underfund public schools, withdrawing Independent all overseas troops while continuing global humanitarian missions, remaining pro-life except for cases of rape or incest, not privatizing Social Security, and disbanding the NRA. 15 US SENATE Dean Hill, a native of Franklin, TN, is an independent candidate running for US Senate in Tennessee. Hill currently works as a realtor in Franklin. A veteran and former government employee, Hill has become frustrated with the two-party system. In an interview with the Tennessee Wildlife Federation, Hill admonished “corporations and the government allowing con- tamination in the waterways”, stating that, “thermal and chem- ical leakage, spillage, and legal dumping needs to be curtailed immediately. The fines should equal the devastation caused. I will introduce new legislature to hold these companies and people accountable.” G. Dean Hill According to his Facebook page he believes we are living in an Orwellian society and prefers to promote individuals US Senate rather than group thought. Hill plans to fight for the rights of rural Independent America and the nuclear family. He identifies as a Christian and values the Ten Commandments. He is an anti-mask supporter and believes that the CDC owns a patent for COVID-19.

STEVEN HOOPER Steven Hooper is an Independent candidate running US Senate for U.S. Senate to represent the state of Tennessee. Hooper is on the ballot for the November 3, 2020 general election. Despite an Independent extensive online search, we could not find additional details on this candidate.

Aaron James, born and currently living in Memphis, is a retired architect. James attended University of Memphis and Bos- ton Architectural College. In 2020, he authored a book “In Search of a New Millennium: Twentieth Anniversary Edition” chronicling his “personal adventure seeking a more meaningful existence”. He explains his personal philosophy as being passionate about righting wrongs of the past to create a better future. He wants to prove that normal, working Americans can still run for office. James is supportive of upholding democracy and strongly en- courages all eligible voters to exercise their voting rights. James believes candidates should fight for their own ideals without AARON JAMES folding to party politics. He wants to establish strict environmental policies to make sure we leave the planet in good standing for US Senate future generations. He also wants more term limits, campaign Independent reform, and limitations on lobbyists. He believes every American should be automatically registered to vote on their eighteenth birthday. He wants to ensure the ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment and better education for children to learn how to think. 16 US SENATE Elizabeth McLeod, born in Opp, Alabama, got her undergraduate degree in Accounting from the University of Alabama in 2004. She started her career as a certified public accountant in the coastal area of Florida. She lived through the recession and the Deepwater Horizon Explosion—two events that would mold her worldview. She moved to Nashville in 2016 continuing her career as a CPA and Tax Manager. For the past sixteen years, McLeod has worked to pre- pare tax returns and create tax plans for housing, restaurant, and other business clients. She mostly focused on gift and estate tax, condominium association taxation, international tax, and small business consulting. She currently works for Cherry Bekaert LLP as ELIZABETH a Tax Manager. McLeod wants to restore fiscal responsibility to Washing- MCLEOD ton to make sure taxpayers’ money is spent wisely. She believes US Senate Americans should receive a dollar for dollar reduction in their Independent adjusted gross income (AGI) for any charitable act. McLeod believes organic, farm-grown, food should be the standard over industrial food, which should receive no tax deductions as a business. To her, government should stay out of any moral decision, such as LGBTQIA+ rights or abortion, as these are personal freedoms. She wants to legalize marijuana on a federal level to help fight against the opioid crisis. She would work to make sure America better respects veterans, including treating mental health issues, covering women veteran’s healthcare needs, and ending veteran homelessness.

In August, Kacey Morgan dropped out of Tennessee’s US Senate race opting to endorse the Memphis-based Democratic nominee, Marquita Bradshaw.

KACEY MORGAN US Senate Independent

Born and raised in Tennessee, Eric William Stansber- ry currently resides in Kenton, TN. Working as a carpenter, the 57-year-old is self-employed. Stansberry has not held a previous office. The independent candidate describes himself as pro-life, pro-gun, pro-church, pro-family, and pro-law and order. Stansberry hopes to protect the freedoms of Americans from both national ERIC WILLIAM and international threats. His platform also mentions social security reform; taking better care of veterans, military, and law en- STANSBERRY forcement among others; and reducing tensions between elected US Senate officials in favor of a teamwork approach. Independent 17 UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES The United States House of Representatives, alongside the United States Senate, forms the legislative branch of our federal government. The United States is divided into 435 congressional districts, each with a population of about 710,000 individuals. Tennessee elects nine representatives to the House. Jim Cooper, the incumbent Congressman for District 5, which includes Nashville and surrounding areas is running unopposed. Representa- tives serve two-year terms. The House of Representatives introduces bills and resolutions, offers amendments, and serves on committees. The House has the sole power to originate impeachment proceedings against public officials, who are then tried before the Senate. A representative’s job requires them to address the concerns, problems, and goals of their constituents and utilize this information to research topics, identify issues, and propose laws that protect citizens, working in coordination with their political party’s policy-making agenda. They must also be informed on international matters as well as any pending legislative matters. The 116th Congress for the House of Representatives holds 237 Democrats, including 4 delegates, and 199 Republicans, including 1 dele- gate. It currently holds a record number of 105 women. The U.S. House of Representatives proportionally represents the demographic population of the 50 states.

Jim Cooper is a 66-year-old Democrat who has represented the 5th District of Tennessee in the U.S. House of Rep- resentatives since 2003. He represented the 4th District from 1983-1995. When Cooper first won his seat in 1982, he became the youngest member of Congress at the time. Cooper was born and raised in Shelbyville, TN. He attended the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, earning a Bachelor’s in History and Economics. He went on to Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, earning a B.A./M.A. in Eco- nomics and Politics in 1977. He received a J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1980. Cooper’s current slogan is, “A Strong Voice For Middle JIM COOPER Tennessee.” He is running on a platform of expanding infrastructure to boost the state economy and job rates, and on voting US HOUSE OF REPS reform and rights. He vows to continue to uphold that Congress District 5 not get paid if the budget isn’t finalized. The CooperForCongress. Democrat com website has a civil rights section highlighting his focus on protecting marriage equality, women’s rights and voter rights. Cooper voted in favor of the Affordable Care Act and teaches Health Policy at Vanderbilt. He wishes to see healthcare services for all Americans and believes our state legislators must accept federal aid. He currently serves on the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and the Committee on Armed Services. Cooper voted in favor of impeaching President Donald Trump last fall. After the Tennessee State Legislature passed a “fetal heartbeat abortion ban,” Cooper tweeted that the law was “unconstitutional,” and that “politicians do not need to be involved in private healthcare decisions.” 18 TENNESSEE STATE SENATE

Similar to the structure of the US Congress, the Tennessee legislative branch consists of both a Senate and House of Representatives. Called the Tennessee General Assembly, the legislative branch enacts laws, proposes legislation, establishes a state budget, and can allow for a forum for debate. Senators are elected to a term of four years, and there is no limit on the number of terms a Tennessee legislator may serve. In order to serve, candidates must be at least 30 years of age and have been a US citizen for at least three years as well as a resident of the district in which they are elected for one year. A senator’s role is to answer to their constituents. Based on the problems, concerns, and needs of the citizens in their district, they then pass bills on public policy matters. Similar to the US Senate, the Tennessee Senate has the power to hold a trial for a state official who has committed a crime against the state, like an impeachment trial. The Senate also has the power to vote to uphold or override vetoes made by the governor. With the state divided into 33 districts with relatively equal populations, the Senate is comprised of 33 seats and 12 committees: Commerce and Labor; Educa- tion; Energy, Agriculture and Natural Resources; Finance, Ways and Means; Government Operations; Health and Welfare; Judiciary; State and Local Government; and Transportation and Safety. While they constitute 51% of Tennesseans, women make up 15.2% of the Senate. With staggered terms, sixteen seats, roughly half of the Senate, are up for election in 2020. The Tennessee Senate is currently held by a Republi- can supermajority, with 28 Republicans and 5 Democrats, contributing to the state’s Republican trifecta. 19 TN SENATE Sumner County native Ferrell Haile has served as the representative of District 18 since January 2013. He attended Lip- scomb University before graduating from the University of Tennes- see Pharmacy School with a Bachelor’s of Science in Pharmacy in 1970. Haile currently owns a cattle farm, Haile Farms, and previously co-owned six drug stores and pharmacies. He is also a member of the Tennessee Cattleman’s Association and the Tennessee Farm Bureau. Haile has been an Elder at the Station Camp Church of Christ since 2010. He was a Board Member of World Christian Broadcasting from 2004-2014, and a Board Member of Christian FERRELL HAILE Towers-Gallatin, a senior housing facility, from 2005-2014. Haile is a member of the NRA. TN State Senate Haile is the Speaker Pro Tempore and serves on sever- District 18 al state legislative committees. He is the First Vice Chair of the Republican Senate Health and Welfare Committee and is a member of three others: Senate Rules Committee, Senate Finance, Ways and Means Committee, and Senate Education Committee. Haile voted ‘Yes’ on HB2236 on June 19, 2020 banning abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected. Haile also voted ‘Yes’ on HB8005 on August 12, 2020 that made rioting and sleeping on state property punishable with a Class E felony. In the last year, he voted to allow adoption agencies to deny potential parents based on their religion. He has voted to cut state Medicaid funding, increase penalties for voter registration errors, and to allow “Indecent Exposure” to include violations from public restrooms, locker rooms, dressing rooms, and showers, specifically preventing “gender dysphoria or gender confusion… [from being a valid] defense to the offense of indecent exposure.”

John Gentry is running as an independent candidate aiming to replace eight-year Republican incumbent, Ferrell Haile, in the Tennessee State Senate. Gentry describes himself as a “conservative minded constitutional republican” who supports President Trump. He graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park and served in the Marine Corps. He is now a certified public accountant who lives in Goodlettsville. Gentry believes that the Tennessee constitution and form of government have been unlawfully altered, unfairly limiting the rights of citizens to protest unconstitutionality. He also has grave concerns about corruption of judges in the state. He sees his cam- JOHN A GENTRY paign as a way to further address these concerns. In recent months, Gentry has argued that Governor Lee TN State Senate is constitutionally required to meet with protestors at the State District 18 House, although he has also said he believes protestors are being Independent led by ‘corrupt attorneys’ to push division and chaos. He has also said that lockdown measures in response to the Covid-19 pandemic are criminal. Gentry also supports: gradually eliminating income taxes, reducing government regulation on businesses, adhering to Judeo-Christian principles in making laws, allowing paren- tal choice in education, and supporting families “beginning with one man and one woman”. 20 TN SENATE Steve Dickerson was born in Newton, Iowa. He earned a BA in history at The University of the South in Sewanee, TN, and his MD at Wake-Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC. He has lived in Nashville for more than 20 years and was elected to the TN State Senate in 2012 after Democrat Joe M. Haynes retired. A hobby musician and father of three sons, he is married to Katrina Dickerson. Professionally, Steve is an anesthesiologist and pain management doctor who has served on the Board of Trustees of the Tennessee Medical Association, as Chairman of the Board of the Middle Tennessee School of Medicine, as President of the Tennessee Society of Anesthesiologists, and as the elected Chief of Staff of two local hospitals. STEVEN REID In 2019, Federal prosecutors and the state of Tennessee sued Dickerson and several other Tennessee doctors for allegedly DICKERSON defrauding the government with years of unjustified tests, dishon- TN State Senate est billing, and forged documents associated with the pain man- District 20 agement company he co-owned, Comprehensive Pain Specialists. Republican In June of 2020, the case was dismissed after a settlement. According to the Tennessean, Dickerson declined to elaborate on the details of the settlement, which were not publicly available in filings. According to Senator Dickerson’s website, his campaign platform has three main focuses: bringing back American manufacturing, improving infrastructure, and low taxes with a balanced budget. Dickerson believes that over-regulation is getting in the way of improving Tennessee and wants to work to make it easier for big companies to operate in Nashville. He also rejects state income tax, arguing that it halts business growth in the region. He chairs the Senate State & Local Government Committee and is the First Vice-Chair of the Senate Ethics Committee.

Heidi Campbell is running for Tennessee State Senate after serving two terms as the Mayor of Oak Hill. She is the first female mayor of Oak Hill and is running against Steve Dickerson, a two-term incumbent. Campbell grew up in Nashville, attending Hume-Fogg High School before graduating from Sarah Lawrence College and receiving her MBA from the Vanderbilt University Owen School of Business. Heidi Campbell currently lives in Nashville with her family and worked in music licensing and publishing before getting involved in local government. Campbell was the owner and president of AAM Music Licensing Company and was motivated to get into politics after seeing the encroachment of commercial devel- HEIDI CAMPBELL opment in her community. As the current Mayor of Oak Hill, Campbell has increased TN State Senate Oak Hill’s financial reserves by $2M without raising taxes and has District 20 been vocal about how she will represent her constituents, empha- Democrat sizing the importance of fighting for fair and ethical treatment under the law for people of all races, ethnicities, sexual orientation, and gender. Campbell currently serves on the Mayor’s Caucus of Middle Tennessee, the Oak Hill Planning Commission, the Greater Nashville Re- gional Council, the South Corridor Task Force, and the Metro Solid Waste Board. Campbell’s biggest pushes on public policy include the systemic changes needed for racial justice. This includes the reallocation of funds to social services to handle things such as homelessness, addiction, and domestic violence. She believes TN needs to adopt the ACA and have better support in crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. Campbell opposes school vouchers and advocates for higher pay for public school teachers. 21 TN SENATE Environmental justice is another major focus for Campbell, who stated that, “As a Mayor, I made sure that my city joined the Tennessee Environmental Council program to encourage planting more trees and to educate citizens about recycling. I also fought for three years to bring a multi-modal path to my city to encourage people to walk and bike and to get cars off the roads.” Bipartisanship is important to Campbell, who says, “We need to stop allowing the radical right to divide us on a handful of issues we’ll never agree on and work together on the 80% of issues we do agree on. We need to stop wasting our time on ridiculous radical legislation to jail librarians and punish minorities.”

22 TENNESSEE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

The Tennessee House of Representatives, alongside the Tennessee State Senate, forms the legislative branch of the Tennessee state government and works alongside the Governor of Tennessee to create laws and establish a state budget. The state is divided into 99 House districts. One representative is elected from each district and as of the 2010 census, each district represents about 64,102 citizens. All 99 House seats are up for election in 2020. In 2018, Republicans increased their supermajority from 69-25 (with five vacancies) to 73-26. The Tennessee House of Representatives goes through a redistricting process every ten years following the Census. To qualify for election to the House, one must be 21 years old, a U.S. citizen, a state resident for three or more years, and a resident of the county in which they are running for at least one year immediately prior to the election. Legislative authority and responsibilities of the Tennessee House of Representatives includes passing bills on public policy matters, setting levels for state spending, raising and lowering taxes, and voting to uphold or override gubernatorial vetoes. The House has the sole power to originate impeachment proceedings against public officials, who are then brought before the Senate for trial. Tennessee is one of six states that requires a majority vote from both of its legislative chambers to override a veto. 23 TN HOUSE OF REPS Bo Mitchell is a native of middle Tennessee and graduated from David Lipscomb University with a BA in Political Science. He has served as member of both the Bellevue and Goodlettsville Chambers of Commerce, in addition to serving as a Metro City Councilman before being elected to the TN House of Representa- tives in 2012. District 50 represents the communities of Bellevue, Goodlettsville, Joelton, White’s Creek, Scottsboro, and other parts of western Davidson County. Mitchell is the Regional Sales Direc- tor at Health Cost Solutions. Mitchell believes in increased health care coverage for Tennesseans, more public school funding, road improvements, BO MITCHELL and increased medicare for senior citizens. Recently Mitchell has voted against the prohibition of abortion and increasing criminal TN House of Reps penalties for protesting on public property. Mitchell is endorsed District 50 by the AFL-CIO and the Tennessee Advocates for Planned Parent- Democrat hood. He was highly critical of Governor Bill Lee’s school voucher program and called for an investigation into the constitutionality of the law. Mitchell and his wife Chastity have two sons, Parker and Brady. He is a member of the following organizations: Bellevue Harpeth Chamber of Commerce, Goodlettsville Cham- ber of Commerce, Joelton Civitan Club, Harpeth River Watershed Association, FiftyForward J.L. Turner Center and the Bellevue YMCA, Tennessee Conservation Voters, and Tennessee Farm Bureau.

Carson “Bill” Beck, the incumbent for TN House of Repre- sentatives, District 51, was first elected to this office in 2014 and is running for a fourth two-year term. He is running unopposed. Beck grew up in Madison and Whites Creek and attended Belmont Col- lege and Nashville School of Law. He also served in the Tennessee Air National Guard, where he was recognized for Civil Engineer- ing. He spent time in the real estate and appraisal business before becoming a trial lawyer. Beck has been actively critical against the bill that makes it a felony to protest overnight at the state Capitol. He has shown solidarity with Teens4Equality, who have been very active in BILL BECK organizing Black Lives Matter protests in Nashville. He has also TN House of Reps advocated science-based efforts to curb COVID-19 in the state, District 51 especially after testing positive for the virus following a special Democrat legislative session where he reported many other legislators did not follow mask or social distancing guidelines. Beck’s key campaign issues include a transparent government, tax relief for seniors, fair pay, mass transit, and the environment. He wants to strengthen TennCare and expand Medicaid coverage to eliminate coverage gap among Tennesseans. Beck supports investment in renewable energy sources, public school funding, and universal Pre-K and early childhood education. In the most recent legislative session, he co-sponsored various bills, including reduction of General Assembly members’s salaries, requirement for landlords to provide security deposit alternatives to tenants, and improved protections of people under 18 arrested on suspicion of prostitution. 24 TN HOUSE OF REPS Donna Tees is running to replace 12-year incumbent, Mike Stewart, in the TN House of Representatives for District 52. Tees grew up in Plymouth, Massachusetts and enlisted in the Army after high school, serving first as a military police officer and then as a sergeant. She moved to the Nashville area in 2017 when her husband was assigned to Fort Campbell. She has an associates degree from Columbia College, a bachelor of science in legal studies from Kaplan University, and is currently studying for a law degree at Nashville School of Law. She currently works as a parale- gal and has never held any public office. In response to COVID-19, Tees has pushed for Nashville businesses and schools to re-open more quickly than the Mayor DONNA TEES has mandated, making economic recovery a key part of her campaign. She also supports police and first responders. While she has TN House of Reps called police officer actions in the death of George Floyd appall- District 52 ing, she has frequently criticized Black Lives Matter protestors and Republican supports legislation to increase penalties for protesting overnight on state grounds. Her campaign literature lists her key issues as fiscal conservatism, including lowering of taxes; upholding and protecting gun rights; and increasing support and opportunities for veterans. She opposes government regulation of healthcare and continued pandemic unemployment assistance. Tees supports improvements in education, including fair salaries for teachers and greater involvement of parents. She also supports term limits for members of US Congress.

Mike Stewart is the TN House of Representatives, District 52, incumbent, having served in this role since 2008. A native of Oak Ridge, TN, he holds a BA in History from University of Penn- sylvania and a law degree from University of Tennessee College of Law, where he served on the Law Review. He is currently a partner at Branstetter, Stranch, and Jennings and maintains a general litigation practice in state and federal court. His areas of practice are Civil Litigation and Class Actions and Complex Litigations. Stewart was an intelligence officer in the US Army and is a veteran of Operation Desert Storm. He was awarded the U.S. Eighth Army Distinguished Leader Award. In 2019, he was endorsed by Planned Parenthood. Stewart fought for Medicaid MIKE STEWART expansion under President Obama’s Affordable Care Act. During the Coronavirus pandemic, Stewart called on Governor Lee for ex- TN House of Reps pansion of healthcare resources to overcome the COVID-19 crisis. District 52 Stewart is one of the Democratic lawmakers that intro- Democrat duced the George Floyd Act for Police Reform to the House of Representatives. This bill is based on the national movement “8 Can’t Wait,” a movement to bring change to police departments across the country. According to his platform, he supports criminal justice reform and prison oversight; sensible gun laws; womens’, veterans, and workers’ rights, public schools and teachers; and protection of rights of LGBTQI+ citizens. He opposes racism, Presi- dent Trump, and the Republic Supermajority. 25 TN HOUSE OF REPS Jason Powell is the incumbent for District 53, and has held his seat since 2012. He currently serves as the Whip for the democratic leadership. A Nashville native, Powell is a graduate of Montgomery Bell Academy, and earned his B.A. in history and political science from the University of Colorado. He received his Master of Public Administration from Tennessee State University, and an M.B.A. from the University of Memphis. Powell has worked in real estate and non-profit management, and holds a real-estate broker’s license. He is currently the Director of Business Devel- opment for the Freeman Webb Company, a private real estate investment firm. He and his wife Heather have two children. JASON L. POWELL As a legislator, Powell has been an outspoken advocate for expanding affordable healthcare in the state, and has also TN House of Reps worked on school safety and other educational issues. Powell District 53 sponsored a bill asserting the state’s prerogatives in legalizing Democrat medical marijuana, and supports a modest expansion of background checks for gun sales. Powell is focused on staying available to help with local issues, stating on his Facebook page that, “being strong on constituent services is very important to me.” In the current session of the legislature, Powell serves on both the State Government and Commerce Committees, and previously served on the Business and Utilities Committees. Earlier this summer, Powell filed an amendment that would fund the planting of trees to shield a privately owned Nathan Bedford Forrest statue from the view of the I-65 North in- terstate. He has been heavily involved in trying to find ways to end the high pedestrian fatality rate on Nolensville Rd., and maintains memberships in several neighborhood associations in his district. His Facebook page is thorough and up-to-date on government services available to his constituents.

Vincent Dixie, is the Democratic incumbent for the TN House of Representatives in District 54, where he grew up. He assumed office in 2018 and serves on the Health Committee and Education Committee. Dixie earned a Bachelor’s of Business Administration degree in Accounting and a Master’s of Business Administration from Tennessee State University. He is married to a Metro Nashville Public Schools educator. Dixie worked as an Internal Auditor for HCA and Ardent Health Services before starting his own businesses, Bail U Out Bonding and A Way Out Bonding. He also serves on the Finance Committee at St. Vincent DePaul Catholic Church, is a member of VINCENT DIXIE the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc., and a member of the Tennes- see Black Caucus. TN House of Reps Dixie believes that the Republican-led leadership in the District 54 legislature has failed the state of Tennessee in the fight against Democrat COVID-19. He advocates for Medicaid expansion so that thou- sands of Tennesseans are not left without access to healthcare, including those in rural counties with hospital closures who are forced to seek care in urban hospitals. He supports public schools and their teachers and families. He opposes inadequate funding for supplies for public school teachers and believes that all children have the right to a quality education. He also supports the right to a basic quality of life for seniors, emphasizing that elders should not have to choose between food, shelter, and medicine. Dixie spoke at the “I Will Breathe” rally in May, which was organized in protest of George Floyd’s death. 26 TN HOUSE OF REPS John Ray Clemmons is currently serving his third term in the Tennessee General Assembly as the State Representative for District 55 and is currently running unopposed for re-election. Clemmons grew up on a farm near Lebanon, TN and graduated from Lebanon High School with honors before going on to earn his bachelor’s degree in history from Columbia University and a law degree from the University of Memphis School of Law in 2006. He has been a member of the Tennessee Bar since May of 2007. Clemmons has been practicing law in Nashville at Clemmons & Clemons, PLLC, a firm he founded with a friend in 2013 and has enjoyed his work as a mediator — helping parties solve problems and resolve difficult issues. He is a Fellow with the Nashville Bar JOHN RAY Association, a barrister with the American Inns of Court, and a member of the Nashville and Tennessee Bar Associations. In 2019, CLEMMONS Clemmons ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of Nashville. TN House of Reps Clemmons’ community involvement has included serving District 5 as chairman of the board for Nashville Reviving Baseball in In- Democrat ner-Cities (RBI), as well as serving on the Metro Board of Fair Commissioners, and the Tennes- see Civil Service Commission. He currently sits on the board for the non-profit organization Friends of Sevier Park, Inc. Clemmons’s platform priorities include supporting medicaid expansion, mandatory gun safety laws, bringing high quality jobs to Tennessee, promoting equality for all, and investing in public education, public transportation, broadband access, and net neutrality. Most recently, Clemmons has been actively involved in Tennessee unemployment forums in order to bring attention to the issue of unemployment in Tennessee during the Covid-19 crisis, and criminal justice reform legislation requiring Nashville’s police department to fully implement body cameras. Clemmons has openly challenged Governor Bill Lee’s fiscal responsibility in handling the coronavirus, as well as his competence in governing state public education, healthcare and unemployment. Diane Michel Canada’s father, a pastor, moved her family to 22 towns before she was in high school, eventually settling in Atlanta. She held a career in medical management before becoming a business consultant. During this time, she pursued a career as a professional singer/songwriter, eventually moving to Nash- ville, where she’s lived for nearly 20 years. Canada built two consulting firms, a staffing firm, and a syndicated international TV show. She founded Lady Like Leaders, authored the book Lady Up + Don’t Quit, and co-launched the Tennessee Entrepreneur Initiative to help small business owners and to train women for leadership roles. She served as the Political Advocacy Chair for the Nashville Chapter of the National Asso- DIANE MICHEL ciation of Women Business Owners and on the Mayor’s Minority Business Advisory Council to represent local female business CANADA owners. She’s currently teaching entrepreneurial curriculum at TN House of Reps the maximum-security Tennessee Prison For Women. After losing District 56 her brother, who suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder, she Republican committed herself to supporting veterans and their families to help prevent suicide through therapy and family preparedness programs, as well. Canada sees inadequate access to care as the root cause behind gun violence and abortion. She aims to protect pro-life and pro-second amendment beliefs while in office. Her campaign examines the usage of taxpayer money on our prison systems to address criminal justice reform. She also plans to have retired military Special Forces rescue citizens who have fallen victim to human trafficking. 27 TN HOUSE OF REPS Bob Freeman is a first-term state representative for Ten- nessee House of Representatives in District 56, which encompass- es much of southwest Nashville including Belle Meade, Green Hills, Oak Hill, and parts of Brentwood. He was born and raised in the district, where he still lives with his wife Rachel and their three children. Freeman holds a bachelor’s degree in Construction Management and Land Development from Middle Tennessee State University, and a master’s in Sustainability from Lipscomb’s Institute for Sustainable Practice. In 2019, Bob became Executive Vice President at Freeman Webb, a private real estate investment firm. BOB FREEMAN As a member of the General Assembly, Freeman serves on the Health and Select Ethics committees, and has sponsored TN House of Reps or co-sponsored 141 bills. He believes in bipartisan action and District 56 has passed more bipartisan legislation than any other freshman Democrat legislator. His primary areas of focus are improving the health of Nashvillians through innovation and investment, building an educated workforce for 21st-cen- tury job opportunities, improving early education and after-school programs, and allying with rural health providers to combat the opioid epidemic. In addition to his time in the legislature, Freeman has served on the boards of the Nashville Homelessness Commission, Tennessee Environmental Council, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, Metro Sustainability Advisory Committee, and the U.S. Green Building Council’s Tennessee Market Leadership Advisory Board.

Harold Love, Jr. is a Democratic candidate running for re-election unopposed in the Tennessee House of Represen- tatives, 58th District, a seat he has held since 2012. Love is a lifelong Nashvillian and a pastor at Lee Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church. His father, Harold Love Sr., served on the Metro City Council and went on to become a house representative for District 54. Love has a doctorate in public policy from Tennessee State University, where he also completed his undergraduate studies. He has a master’s in theological studies from Vanderbilt University. Notably, Love is a Life Member of the NAACP. While Love was audited for his campaign spending in 2019, members of HAROLD M LOVE the Tennessee Board of Election Finance forgave the issues raised in the audit. With most discrepancies linked back to his campaign, TN House of Reps members said Love was able to offer plausible explanations for the District 58 expenses. Democrat Love is a member of the House Education Committee; Curriculum, Testing, & Innovation Subcommittee; State Committee; Public Services & Employ- ees Subcommittee; Consumer & Human Resources, Committee; and the Employee Affairs Subcommittee. Love is also a member of the Liability Committee of Extraordinary Session II, a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. He has also aided in the development of the Tennessee Small Business Stimulus Program, which decided how to allocate funds received through the Cares Act due to Covid-19 business closures. Love spoke at the “I Will Breathe” Rally in Nashville in May of this year. Regarding protests that followed the murder of George Floyd, he stated, “You can not continue to have policing policies that are separate and different for African American communities and different from other communities and expect us to not rise up and say this is wrong.” Love’s platform priorities include education, health care, criminal justice reform, and economic development. He focuses on uplifting the individual, once saying, “When you place value on 28 TN HOUSE OF REPS a life educationally, academically and financially, then you demonstrate a care and concern for that population of people, and demonstrate to the larger population that life is worth some- thing.” He has previously worked on legislation regarding computer science for all, reducing adverse childhood experiences, reducing the maternal mortality rate, and the TN HBCU (historically Black colleges and universities) Initiative.

Jason Potts, the incumbent Democrat, is running for Ten- nessee State Representative in District 59 unopposed. He served as a Metro Council member for District 30 from 2011 until he won his seat in the state house in 2018. Potts attended Spring Hill High School and went on to attend the University of Tennessee at Martin. He studied real estate at the Continual Learning Institute located in Middle Tennessee. He is married and has two children. Potts operates a real-estate business called Quality Homeworks, and is a licensed general contractor. Potts’s campaign priorities include repairing traffic infrastructure, increasing pay for teachers, bolstering funding for public schools, and expanding Medicaid. JASON POTTS Potts is a member of four house committees, including the Judiciary Committee and the Transportation Committee. He TN House of Reps has sponsored thirty-one bills, including a bill that makes it pos- District 59 sible for persons operating electric scooters to be charged with Democrat DUIs. In June of 2020, Potts did not vote on a bill that bans abortions if a fetal heartbeat is detected. In August of 2020, he voted against a bill that increased the penalty for camping on state property from a misdemeanor to a class E felony.

Democrat Darren Jernigan is running for re-election in District 60, having served as the district’s representative since 2012. Before winning the seat, Jernigan represented District 11 on the Metro Council starting in 2007. Living in the Hermitage and Old Hickory areas since 1979, Jernigan holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and public relations from Austin Peay State University as well as a master’s degree in criminal justice from Middle Tennessee State University. Jernigan is a member of seven house committees and is the first Democrat to be appointed chairman of a subcommittee by Republican leadership in over eight years. On his campaign website, Jernigan writes that he has earned a “reputation for DARREN JERNIGAN working across the aisle” and believes that “a good idea is a good idea regardless of which side of the aisle it originated.” He has TN House of Reps sponsored thirty-six bills in the Tennessee General Assembly. District 60 Jernigan is an advocate for the DREAM act, the expansion Democrat of Medicaid, the legalization of medical marijuana, and equitable access to healthcare. He is pro-choice and voted against a bill that would ban abortions when a fetal heartbeat is detected this past June. He supports a living wage, equal pay, affordable childcare, and universal Pre-K education in Tennessee. He opposes predatory lending and the use of public funds as vouchers for private school tuition. His criminal justice platform focuses on reforming inmates to lower the number of people in jail, ending for-profit prisons in Tennessee, decriminalizing marijuana in amounts less than one ounce, and supporting Marsy’s Law, which protects the rights of victim’s families. Jernigan defeated Grant Medeiros in the Democratic primary on August 6, 2020 and is running unopposed in the general election this November 3rd. 29 SCHOOL BOARD, DISTRICT 4

Districts elect School Board Members to represent constituent values for public schools. In Davidson County, Metro council selects an individual to fill any vacancies and the individual selected serves until a successor can be elected in the next election. MNPS District 4 in Northeastern Nashville, which is made up of council districts 11, 12, 14, and 15, is holding an election for a new School Board Member after a member passed away earlier this year. The winner of Novem- ber’s election will serve out the remaining two years of the former member’s original term. School board members set goals, determine the policies affecting students and schools, hire the Director of Schools, and hold the Director of Schools and central office staff accountable for progress toward set goals. The board may also control the district’s funds and reach out to the community for input or support. We elect School Board Members for Metro Nash- ville Public Schools (MNPS) to serve four years, with terms staggered so we elect no fewer than four members every two years. The public may speak at MNPS School Board meetings, which are also broadcast on television and published on YouTube.

30 SCHOOL BOARD Steve Chauncy received his bachelor’s degree in biology, chemistry, and physics from the University of Tennessee, his master’s degree from Trevecca Nazarene. and his E.d.D. in Education- al Administration Supervision from Tennessee State University. He is a graduate of Metro Nashville Public Schools (MNPS). Chauncy spent more than four decades working in the MNPS system as a professional in roles of increasing responsibility, including assistant principal, athletic director, and executive principal. He is a four-time winner of MNPS Principal of the Year. Two of Chauncy’s main platforms include the retention of quality teachers, and investing in the latest technology for Nash- ville’s public schools. Other issues important to Chauncy include a STEVE CHAUNCEY focus on student safety, diversity, and equity; implementing more after school and tutoring programs; allowing teachers to have School Board more autonomy in their classrooms; and removing administrative District 4 tasks from counselors and therapists to allow them more time to be present for students. John Little, a parent and a community organizer, is a political consultant for Little-Smith Strategies. Little-Smith has done political consulting on several past Nashville democratic campaigns. Little cites his struggles as a young man as having influenced his desire to provide a better future for the youth of Nashville. Mr. Little is a believer in the implementation of charter schools in Nashville. He is active in both the parent advocacy group Memphis Lift as a surge team director and also a member in Nashville PROPEL (Parents Requiring Our Public Education system to Lead). Issues important to him are improving the reading ability JOHN LITTLE of all local children, making sure every child is prepared to graduate, and that teachers are taken care of physically and financially School Board especially during the pandemic. He is quoted from his website as District 4 saying, “My number one priority is making sure our kids are college, career and community ready.” Little has a son in sixth grade who is currently learning virtually due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

After growing up in South Bend, Indiana, Dr. Berthena Nabaa-McKinney moved to Nashville in 1997 and obtained her Doctorate in Educational Leadership & Professional Practice from Trevecca Nazarene University. Her experience in education ranges from a former MNPS chemistry teacher, private school principal, plus a parent and guardian of both MNPS graduates and a current 2nd grader in a District 4 school. Nabaa-McKinney was appointed after a majority vote to fill the vacant District 4 School Board seat this past August following the passing of Anna Shephard. Per Metro guidelines, Nabaa-McKinney is required to run as a candidate in this Nov T3rd Special Election to complete the unexpired two-year term BERTHENA until 2022. She serves as a Commissioner for the Metro-Nashville Ac- NABAA-MCKINNEY tion Commission, Board Chair with the Muslim American Cultural School Board Center, Co-Chair of Women of Color for Educational Equity, and District 4 is also the founder of Nabaa Consulting, LLC, which focuses on school improvement for Early Childhood and K-12 schools, in both public and private institutions. With more than 20 years 31 SCHOOL BOARD of experience in educational and professional development, Dr. Nabaa-Mckinney’s focus is “ensuring that all schools in District 4, and across MNPS will have the equitable funding they need to provide a high quality education for ALL students.”

Pam Swoner is running to join the District 4 Board of Edu- cation. Swoner attended Metro Public schools, including Donelson High School and McGavock Comprehensive High School. After attending Volunteer State Community College and Clayton State University based in Atlanta, Georgia, she continued to become a substitute teacher. With two children that attended Metro Nashville Public Schools, Swoner was a parent volunteer and Parent Teacher Asso- ciation board member. Her previous experience in the education field includes teaching computer labs, operating school stores, coordinating field trips, directing health screenings, implementing PAM BARRETT school fundraisers, and obtaining sponsorship for outdoor educational programs. Swoner has formerly volunteered as a Girl Scouts SWONER troop leader and currently chairs MTSU’s Junior Master Gardener School Board Program. District 4 Swoner’s campaign platform includes providing children with increased physical activity during the school day and an increased investment in teacher salaries. She believes that there is currently too much focus on standardized testing and supports Performance Based Learning and Assessment Models over Common Core, believing that it “...can address social and emotional skills, ethics, creativity, technology literacy and promote entrepreneurial qualities.” Pam Swoner has been endorsed by the Metropolitan Nashville Education Association (MNEA).

32 BELLE MEADE CITY COMMISSIONER

Located southwest of Downtown Nashville, the City of Belle Meade is just over three square miles of land, with a population of about 3,000 residents. The city’s history goes back to 1807, and it was formally incorporated in October 1938. Although the City of Belle Meade operates independently with its own regulations, city hall, and police force, it is also considered part of the Metro Nashville government, and is part of Davidson County. The Belle Meade Board of Commissioners consists of five elected officials who serve staggered four-year terms. As the policy-making body for the city, the board elects two of their members to serve as Mayor and Vice Mayor for two-year terms. Two of the five commission seats are up for election in 2020, with the remaining three seats set to expire in November 2022.

33 BELLE MEADE CITY COMMISSIONER HALEY DALE Haley Dale serves on the Board Of Zoning Appeals in Belle Meade Belle Meade, TN. In 2019, Dale volunteered to be on the May- or-created informal consultation team for the new Historic Zoning City Commissioner Commission. Despite an extensive online search, we could not find additional details on this candidate.

James V. Hunt serves as both the Mayor and a Commis- sioner of Belle Meade. He is running for re-election for Com- missioner in 2020, where there are two open seats. Hunt served in the Navy and graduated from Vanderbilt University with a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Economics. He founded the employee benefits consulting company Benefit Com- munications Inc. in 1981. Hunt sold it to his son and then retired in 2011. Hunt was elected Mayor in 2012, and has served as an elected Commissioner since 2008. He is also a current member of the advisory board for the Nashville Zoo and Big Brothers/Big JAMES V. HUNT Sisters of Middle Tennessee. Hunt is a current Board Member of Belle Meade Plantation, Operation Stand Down Tennessee, and, Belle Meade since 2018, Chairman Of The Board Of Trustees for Cheekwood City Commissioner Botanical Gardens.

Charles Thornburg is running for Belle Meade City Com- missioner. After being raised in California and attending college at California State University at Fullerton, Thornburg moved to Tennessee from Atlanta in 1989 and has resided in the Belle Me- ade area for over 30 years. Charles serves as the Vice President of Risk Management for RegionalCare Hospital Partners Inc, based in Brentwood. Thornburg has not previously held public office. Gray Thornburg, Charles Thornburg’s wife, served as Vice Mayor of Belle Meade from 2006-2018. In a 2018 Belle Meade City News- letter, Thornburg stated, “I have spent most of my business CHARLES M. career creating and managing multimillion dollar budgets, which I feel gives me the requisite experience to continue the finan- THORNBURG cial stewardship that our past and current commissioners have Belle Meade accomplished.” City Commissioner

34 FOREST HILLS CITY COMMISSIONER

The City of Forest Hills is located Southwest and borders on William- son County. With a population size of just under 5,000 in a 2018 estimate, this small city was developed as a suburb of Nashville during World War II and is still mostly residential with no commercial development. The Forest Hills Board of Commissioners is composed of three Commissioners, who are all elected to their positions for four-year terms. Once the officials have been elected, the Board elects one person to serve as Mayor and one as Vice Mayor. The Board exercises both legislative and executive powers to govern the municipality.

Lanson Hyde is running unopposed for city commissioner of Forest Hills, where he has lived for more than 20 years. He attended Montgomery Bell Academy, then went to the University of Tennessee, Knoxville where he received a bachelor’s degree in finance. He received his MBA from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. Currently, Hyde is a Board Member of Friends of Aaittafama’ Archeological Park, a nonprofit organization working to preserve Native American archaeological sites in the Nashville area. Hyde is CEO of Epix Healthcare, an anesthesia services provider, and previously worked as president and CEO of LANSON JAMES telemedicine company Satchel Health. In 2011, Hyde joined the Board of Commissioners for the City of Forest Hills. In 2014, he HYDE III was named Vice Mayor for the City of Forest Hills, and in 2018 he Forest Hills was elected Mayor. City Commissioner 35 GOODLETTSVILLE CITY COMMISSIONER

Spanning both Davidson and Sumner Counties, Goodlettsville has been a city since its incorporation in 1958 with a population of just over 3,000. The city decided to maintain its autonomy when Nashville merged with the government of David- son County in 1963. Today it is composed of 14.3 square miles and approximately 16,798 residents. The Goodlettsville Board of Commis- sioners consists of five city commissioners who are elected by the citizens. Of those selected, two are chosen among them for the positions of Mayor and Vice Mayor, while the other three stay as Commission- ers. The Commissioners are set to serve a four-year alternating term and elections are held every two years. Meetings are held on the second and fourth Thursday of every month with agendas, ordinances, and resolutions released prior to the meetings for public review. There are public study sessions prior to each meeting with the intent on exchanging information on topics important to board members, city staff, and citizens.

Jennifer Duncan is a lifelong resident of the City of Goodlettsville and attended high school at Davidson Academy. She received a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville’s business school, Haslam College, and another Bachelor of Science degree from the UT, Knoxville in advertising. Duncan is a Sr. Marketing Coordinator for the water and environmental market at Gresham Smith & Partners, an urban planning and architectural design firm. Currently, Duncan serves as a member of the City of Goodlettsville Parks and Recreation Advisory Board. She is married to Jeff Duncan, Mayor of the City of Goodlettsville. JENNIFER DUNCAN Goodlettsville City Commissioner 36 GOODLETTSVILLE CITY COMMISSIONER Stuart Huffman, a graduate of the Nashville School of Law, has been licensed to practice in Tennessee since 2007, focusing on accident and injury, as well as general law. He has an undergraduate degree in Criminal Justice, minoring in Sociology, from Texas Christian University. He moved from Texas to Nashville in 1997 and met his wife, Krista, shortly after. They moved to her hometown of Goodlettsville in 2016 to raise their two daughters. Huffman started his career as a Transition/Merger and Acquisition Consultant before starting law school. While obtaining his law degree, he worked for the State of Tennessee as a Securi- ties Investigator for five years. He has over 12 years of experience in law, including working for Roberts & Associates, which handles STUART HUFFMAN mostly family law, probate, and personal injury, and working in Legal Services for the United Automobile, Aerospace, and Agricul- Goodlettsville tural Implement Workers of America. Huffman currently works as City Commissioner General Counsel for Cal-Tenn Financial which focuses on automotive financing. Huffman believes in strengthening Goodlettsville’s Police, Fire, and Public Works infrastructure, plus protecting the city’s environment through green spaces and natural landscapes. He supports fiscal responsibility and economic growth through increasing local business opportunities for retail and dining in Goodlettsville.

Zach Young is a resident of the City of Goodlettsville and a graduate of Belmont University. Young currently works in finance and administration at CMI Equipment Sales, a machine sales and service company. Since 2012, Young has served as City Commissioner of Goodlettsville. In 2019, Zach was elected Council Member for the Goodlettsville area, district 10. He is a member of the Codes, Fair and Farmers’ Market Committee; the Personnel, Public Informa- tion, Human Relations Committee; and the Public Works Com- mittee. He is also a current member of the Goodlettsville Visitors and Tourism Board. Young also belongs to a number of civic and community organizations including Rachel’s Garden Fundraising ZACH YOUNG Committee, Madison-Rivergate Chamber of Commerce, and the Nashville LGBT Chamber of Commerce. Goodlettsville Young states that his main platform is “enhancing the City Commissioner quality of life in Goodlettsville, improving emergency services, and making the government more transparent.” During his tenure, Zach has worked with the Mayor of Goodlettsville to deed land from the City of Goodlettsville to Metro Nashville for the construction of a Metro Park in the Goodlettsville area.

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