by allison | Oct 11, 2022 | From the 2024 Campaign Trail, Why I Ran (Twice)
Often when I’m canvassing, someone will take my literature, read it, turn it over and read the back, then look at me with narrowed eyes and say, “So . . . what are you?” That’s why I don’t have my party affiliation on my lit. I want to make it hard for voters to...
by allison | Oct 17, 2022 | From the 2024 Campaign Trail, Why I Ran (Twice)
When I was seven or eight, my mom sent me to an all-girls summer day camp. I was fairly shy at that age, but I enjoyed it. There were around 75 campers and a few teenage counselors, all of them kind. We would start each day with a group activity as we stood in a...
by allison | Mar 12, 2023 | From the 2024 Campaign Trail, Why I Ran (Twice)
Being a state legislator isn’t rocket science. Don’t take it from me; take it from the state legislator who told me that last year. We were discussing how our government in Nashville is failing Tennesseans. He used the expression out of frustration, but I’m using it...
by allison | Apr 9, 2023 | From the 2024 Campaign Trail, Why I Ran (Twice)
Cempa Community Care, based in Chattanooga, has been battling HIV/AIDS for 37 years. In 2022 alone, its HIV programs served more than 4,000 Tennesseans. Those programs will lose their main source of financial support now that Republican Gov. Bill Lee has announced...
