Dave Seeman (Independent)

- Engineer and small business owner.
- "The Volunteer Plan." On schools: repeal the Education Freedom Scholarship voucher program and redirect about $144 million a year to public schools, cap class sizes, add counselors and special education aides, and require financial literacy to graduate.

Engineering

Startups

Climate Action
- Help Our Farmers. Buy from farmers, stock food hubs and local storage, provide tax relief, right-to-repair, and provide mental telehealth and peer support, support for new farmers
- Generate Renewable Energy. Build state-owned renewable power, made clean industrial generation, unlock residential solar, finance clean energy state-wide
- Build Public Transportation. Bus routes connecting rural counties, state match for city public transit, large-scale passenger rail feasibility study, walkable streets funding in every county
- Make Infrastructure Resilient. Bury powerlines, harden water systems, establish emergency response systems, and deliver affordable fiber internet

Economic Wellbeing
- Save You Money. End grocery tax, bulk-purchase insulin and naloxone, wipe out $1B medical debt, close corporate tax loopholes
- Build Affordable Housing. Invest in land trusts for permanent affordability, fast-track new buildings, legalize dense housing, cut red tape for quality builds
- Expand Healthcare. Take back federal dollars, build a community health center in each county, allow new clinics in all counties to open, expand mental health service in every city, support rural carework, save hospitals money
- Boost Pay, Jobs, & Benefits. Livable minimum wage, 12 week family leave, job-placement programs, phase out benefit losses

Fund Future Families
- Invest in Childhood. Full medical, dental, vision, and health care for every child, end vouchers, reduce class size and add counselors and aids, refresh old curriculum, provide breakfast and lunch sourced from TN Farmers
- Support for Families. Comprehensive care for mothers before and after birth, close the coverage gap, cover childcare for incomes under $99k
- Fund it for Generations. Establish a soverign wealth fund to expand education and care for children, forever

Community Enrichment
- For First Responders. Trauma-informed support for First Responders, behavioral health dispatch in every city, use local resources for local policing and end ICE cooperation
- Veterans & Seniors. Fund the 40,000+ veterans needing benefits, close loopholes that hurt veteran payouts, and broadly support seniors aging at home and their caretakers
- Homelessness & Addiction. Support Housing First, care and treatment options for all unhoused people, and expand naloxone and additiction treatment to end the opioid epidemic
- Restoring Rights & Honor. Restore civil rights enforcement, medical privacy, nondiscrimination protections for all, restore historically harmed Neighborhoods and Nations, phase out private prisons

Public Accountability
- Voting & Elections. Increase voting accessibility, draw fair districts, open primary elections, rank the vote, get ballot access
- Datacenters & AI Regulation. Temporary moratorium until we can extend ELVIS act to all synthetic media, ban social scoring and surveillance, and hold companies accountable for job losses and pollution
- Government Transparency. Audit programs over $25M, capture federal grants, make state data online and searchable, annual wellbeing and environmental reports, give Tennesseans a direct voice in the Legislature

Green Party

Mom’s Demand Action

I see Purple

Green New Deal

Patient Over Profit

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