Lauren Pinkston
What this job does: Runs the state's executive branch and is the only statewide official Tennessee voters elect. The governor proposes the state budget, can veto bills (including single spending lines), can grant pardons, and commands the state's military forces. The Legislature can override a veto with a simple majority. A term is four years, and a governor can serve two terms in a row.
- Occupation
- Professor at Lipscomb University
- Lives in
- Columbia
Background
- Professor at Lipscomb University and a former fourth-grade teacher. source: wsmv.com
- Describes a career starting businesses with human trafficking survivors, leading nonprofits and advising global organizations; calls Pinkston a seventh-generation Tennessean. source: pinkstonfortn.com
In their own words
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- Eliminate the grocery tax, cap property taxes, make it possible to own a home. source: pinkstonfortn.com
- End vouchers, reduce testing, limit screens, add 50,000 childcare slots. source: pinkstonfortn.com
- Close healthcare deserts, take on middlemen driving up your costs. source: pinkstonfortn.com
- No new data centers until TN sets the rules, make growth pay for growth. source: pinkstonfortn.com
- Open primaries, end gerrymandering, report voter input on issues. source: pinkstonfortn.com
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