Candidate for U.S. Senate - Tennessee in 2020 Tennessee Primary Election.
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Get StartedWe must make sure we’re living up to our commitments to veterans so that the best and brightest continue volunteering the way James did after we were attacked on September 11. However, an average of 22 veterans will take their own lives each day, and there are still nearly 50,000 unfilled positions in the Department of Veterans Administration (VA) – making it harder for all of our veterans to access the very services they earned risking their lives to protect our freedom. Under no circumstance will James support putting the unique care needs of his brothers and sisters-in-arms in the hands of corporations who put profits ahead of people. Learn more
Tennessee’s economy can benefit from a global economy but only if we aren’t taken advantage of in bad trade deals. The Administration’s trade war of choice hurts Tennessee’s economy more than any other state, making it harder for Tennesseans to sell our products. Because we’re part of a global economy, some of those markets aren’t coming back. James will only support fair trade deals that put American workers on an equal playing field, and unlike Bill Hagerty, he won’t make it easier to ship our jobs overseas. Learn more
James believes public education is and has always been the best pathway to opportunity. Today, in Betsy DeVos, we have a Secretary of Education at the Federal level who does not believe in that mission. The president’s handpicked candidate for U.S. Senate, Bill Hagerty, led the Trump Transition team in 2017, and we have him to thank for DeVos and so many other cabinet members more focused on looking out for themselves than the people they’re entrusted to serve. Learn more
The Department of Defense has called climate change one of the greatest threats to our national security, and James agrees. With historic Oak Ridge National Laboratory, we have evidence right here in Tennessee that Americans have the ingenuity and capacity to solve big problems. But we can’t do it when one political party is dedicated to denying the existence of the problem. We can create a clean energy future, create jobs, and protect the environment, but it’s not going to happen by electing people, like Bill Hagerty, who deny scientific realities. Tennessee is well positioned to help lead the way in realizing a clean energy future that could become the basis for our next economic boom, and James will help make it happen. Learn more
The narrow and incorrectly decided Citizens United ruling has unleashed a flood of secret, corporate cash on our democracy, and it’s preventing us from starting conversations about fixing health care, reducing gun violence, how to give small businesses a break and a boost to hire their neighbors, which investments will foster the growth of the next economic boom, and how to expand 21st century infrastructure to rural Tennessee. Learn more
James believes that access to health care is a right, and that access to women’s health care is a right. While our opponent openly calls for getting rid of the Affordable Care Act, slashing Medicaid, and putting insurance companies back in charge, James knows that increasing costs and reducing coverage for Tennesseans is wrong, and he’s ready to fight. Learn more
Tennessee’s crumbling infrastructure is holding us back. Today, more than a million Tennesseans live in “internet deserts” without access to good broadband connections – a limitation that has been exacerbated by COVID-19. There are nearly 1,000 bridges across Tennessee considered structurally deficient – putting all Tennessee drivers at risk. There is bipartisan consensus to invest in infrastructure, but rather than passing a bill, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell directed dollars we need in Tennessee to his biggest campaign donors in Kentucky. Learn more
Increasing minimum wage to $15/hour increases annual pay to $31,200 a year before taxes. While that is an improvement, James knows what we really need are investments in areas we know will create good-paying jobs now and into the future: infrastructure, education, and clean energy. Learn more
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