MEET BILL LEE
I’m not a politician. I’m a cattle farmer, a businessman, a father and grandfather, and a seventh generation Tennessean. At my company, I work with electricians, pipe fitters, and plumbers. I’ve spent a good part of my life doing what I can to make life better for them, and now I’d like to try to make life a little better for six and a half million Tennesseans.
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Where Bill Stands
- Cut taxes for small businesses and paused grocery taxes during record inflation
- Issued a 90-day freeze on new government regulations
- Signed the Adoption and Religious Freedom Act to ensure private agencies are protected
- Expanded Tennessean’s 2nd Amendment rights with Constitutional Carry
- Expanded treatment and rehabilitation to ensure incarcerated individuals do not re-commit crimes
- Reduced law enforcement shortages with aggressive out-of-state recruiting
- Established a $100 million violent crime intervention program
- Strengthened penalties against drug traffickers, human traffickers, and criminals who commit gun crimes
- Deployed Tennessee National Guard to the Southwest Border to stop illegal crossings and drug trafficking
- Passed the strongest pro-life laws in the country, including the Heartbeat Bill
- Expanded maternal health and postpartum coverage for TennCare recipients
- Launched TN Fosters Hope to secure permanent homes for kids in foster care
- Reformed Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
- Reformed a 30-year-old funding approach to fund students, not bureaucracies
- Expanded access to career and technical training for middle and high school students
- Established the Future Workforce Initiative to ensure students have access to STEM educational opportunities
- Banned CommonCore from all Tennessee schools
- Put phonics back in the classroom
- Tennessee unemployment is at the lowest rate in Tennessee history
- Nearly 70,000 jobs added to Tennessee’s economy since 2019
- Raised teacher pay to the highest level and closed bureaucratic loopholes to ensure a teacher raise is a teacher raise
- Secured Ford Motor Company on the Megasite of West Tennessee, marking the largest private sector investment in Tennessee history
- Doubled investments and expanded private sector partnerships to bring high-speed broadband to underserved areas
- Established high-quality civics education in public schools, including a required civics exam in high school
- Established the University of Tennessee Institute of American Civics
- Shut down the Chinese Communist Party’s Confucius Institutes at public universities