Tennessee State Senator Heidi Campbell (D-Nashville) announced her candidacy for Nashville Mayor on Wednesday in Public Square Park.
Are we building a city to visit? Or a city to live in? I believe it's time to prioritize those of us who call Nashville home! Join our campaign! https://t.co/2rdvneOTLI
— Senator Heidi Campbell (@Campbell4TN) April 5, 2023
Campbell was elected in November of 2020 to represent District 20 in the Tennessee State Senate and describes herself as an “outspoken advocate for science, the LGBTQ community, public education, affordable housing, common-sense gun regulations, transit, local control, women’s and kids’ issues, fiscal responsibility, Medicaid expansion, and the environment.”
“The next mayor of Nashville will wake up to some big challenges and we need someone with the experience and the temperament to take the reins,” Campbell said while declaring her candidacy. “We need solutions, not rhetoric. We need a city where everyone from Hermitage to Bordeaux to Bellevue knows that every day their leaders are fighting for them.”
Campbell said she is running because “she did not see Nashville’s next mayor” in the current race.
In recent days, Campbell has come out against the decision of her Republican colleagues in the House to expel three Democrat lawmakers who disrupted House proceedings last week from the chamber floor.
Campbell tweeted, “Expelling house members for violating house rules is an insult to our legislative body. It’s crazy to respond to a perceived minor threat to the 2nd amendment by creating an overt threat to the 1st!”
Campbell has also recently stated that “guns are way too accessible and available in this country,” and has compared those who believe putting armed guards and school resource officers in public schools to “fascists.”
Also, on Wednesday, Campbell introduced a bill in the Tennessee Senate that would establish red-flag laws in the state, which would “allow a court to issue a risk protection order upon a finding by clear and convincing evidence that a person poses a significant danger of causing personal injury to the person or others if allowed to possess or purchase a firearm.”
The 2023 Nashville mayoral election will be held on August 3, with a runoff on September 14, if necessary. Voter registration ends on July 5, with early voting beginning on July 14. The last day to request an absentee ballot is July 27.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network.
Photo “Heidi Campbell” by Heidi Campbell. Background Photo “Nashville City Hall” by Luckiewiki. CC BY-SA 4.0.
“Campbell said she is running because “she did not see Nashville’s next mayor” in the current race.”
we still dont either
NO Heidi Campbell……NO WAY