Bruce Fine

“Closer to home, I'm passionate about lowering the cost of living, protecting our local clinics and hospitals from devastating funding cuts, and ensuring every child receives a world-class education. These aren't talking points — they are the daily reality of my neighbors. I am one of you.”

“Fiscal responsibility is my top concern. Our federal government carries $36 trillion in debt — roughly $107,000 for every man, woman, and child in America. A family of four shoulders nearly $430,000 of that burden. Yet Washington keeps cutting taxes for the wealthy while working families pay every week without fail.”

“I have lived the life of the people I seek to serve. From farming and fishing to mechanics and journalism, I have worked across trades and industries my entire life. I know what it means to work for a dollar and stretch it. That experience is what I bring to Congress — not a career in politics.”

“I will fight for the issues that hit closest to home. The cost of living, affordable housing, protecting local healthcare clinics and hospitals, and giving our children a world-class education are not abstract issues to me — they are the daily reality of the people I will represent.”

“I'm a lifelong Tennessean, working-class and proud of it — farmer, marine mechanic, and journalist with a B.S. from the University of Florida. I'm running as an Independent because both parties have failed us. I'll fight to lower the cost of living, protect local healthcare clinics and hospitals, demand fiscal responsibility on our $36 trillion debt, and ensure every child gets a quality education. No special interests. No political machine. Just honest, common-sense leadership.”

“The one thing that I find most troubling is the abandonment of fiscal responsibility as the federal government has wracked up a $38 Trillion debt that continues to increase while the few people who have the vast majority of the money and wealth in our country have been given one of the biggest cut in taxes ever. For the rest of us taxes are taken out of our paychecks every week, no matter what.”