My Platform
Education
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Education spending is an investment, and we should be investing more, and more wisely, in our children and public schools.
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The “voucher scam” is the exact opposite of what we should be doing, as it takes funding from public schools and gives it to wealthy families with children already in private schools.
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We must do a better job of monitoring and improving our results.
Healthcare
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We must ensure that everyone has ready access to healthcare, not just the wealthy.
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We must work to reduce the costs of health care, both to the individuals who need the care and to all of us, who ultimately bear the burden.
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We must pay more attention to areas like preventive and chronic care, health maintenance, and elder care.
Affordability
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We need to work to make childcare more affordable and accessible for working families.
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We can lower healthcare costs by expanding Medicaid and increasing access to care.
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We must combat the rising housing, grocery, and gas costs so families don't need to choose which to go without.
Restore
Common Decency
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We have had too much divisiveness for personal gain.
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We stand on common ground, and we need to once again work for the common good.
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Not only is the divisiveness counterproductive in the present, it forces us to confront the question, “What example are we setting for the next generation?”
When we build from shared ground, we can move Tennessee forward - together.