Catherine Whitson (Independent)

- Businesswoman

Insurance

Pastor

Economic Growth
- Lowering costs, creating high-paying jobs, and supporting local small business/entrepreneurs. Promoting green energy and creativity in order to steward our world better for us and future generations. Also, promoting safe water and excellent waste management and recycling/repurposing for a resilient environment.

Healthcare
- Maximize cooperation across all of the entities involved in delivering state of the art healthcare for all Tennesseans. Work to reduce prescription drug costs and protect and improve rural hospitals. Utilize the existing Health Care Act to help folks who do not have group health benefits. Promote and protect programs for our veterans, senior citizens and those in need.

Education
- Boosting funding for public schools and expanding vocational training programs as well as promoting private and home schooling initiatives. Finding ways to pay off student debt so that those who had loans can build wealth.

Fair Housing
- Affordable housing for all Tennesseans and help for the 10,000 currently unhoused via partnering with churches, businesses, etc. to create safe tiny house communities. Utilize best practice models for partnering faith based entities with public assistance entities.

Dependant Care
- Promote better childcare, eldercare and other challenged entities assistance where all people have the opportunity to live their best life now and always.

Transportation
- Promote mass transit options to allow people choices like our global neighbors in Europe and other countries utilize.

Election Protection
- Safe voting throughout our state via the continuation of the excellent job the election folks do in Nashville as well as all election commission workers throughout our state. Let us promote making every person's vote count!

Promote/Protect our Farms
- Promote farm to table accessibility and the reduction of reliance on over processed food. Promote green spaces and join with area businesses to clean up factory byproducts for a healthier environment.

Provision for our Peace Keepers
- Peace for all people via integrous police organizations. Use trauma informed training to optimize interventions with mentally challenged ones and other situations that arise in every community.

Peace for all people via integrous police organizations.
- Use trauma informed training to optimize interventions with mentally challenged ones and other situations that arise in every community.

New Wannabe Tennesseans
- Build networks for helping refugees and immigrants who need assistance for rebuilding their lives right here in our wonderful state. In other words, be good neighbors!

Science and Technology
- Promote innovation and technology investment across Tennessee. Support research institutions and create pathways for tech jobs in every region of the state.

Generational Optimization
- Create spaces for generations to share life so that the older folks can pass on wisdom to younger folks and younger folks share brilliance with older folks.