KCDP District 1

Great event for district 1 folks!

Come out and meet your reps. This will be a great opportunity to break bread and get your questions answered.

Just your reminder email we are meeting tonight at the public works building (3131 morris ave) at 6pm for our district 1 reorg meeting and you’ll need to be there if you’d like to be a voting delegate at the party wide re org on Saturday April 5!

District 1! Let’s call and email Knoxville reps and ask them to vote against vouchers!!!

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Our two Dem reps who are against vouchers and plan to vote against:
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🚩 ROBBING PETER TO PAY PAUL? The officially-proposed voucher bill for next week's special session has finally dropped publicly, and woooo boy, it's a whooper of a boondoggle.

Fiscal estimates compiled by the General Assembly (so you know their math is already predisposed to be as generous to the voucher bill as possible) forecast that Lee's voucher heist will cost state public coffers nearly a HALF-BILLION DOLLARS in the program's first year alone.

Moreover, nearly $100M of that money appears to be raided annually from the Education Lottery Scholarship program—robbing public school graduates of their higher-education scholarships on which they rely to attend college, trade schools, or any postsecondary attainment path. This seems to be a peculiar pivot away from Gov. Lee's promised investments in expanding trade and postsecondary career education that helped him win his office in the first place back in 2018. So much for honoring his word, we suppose (but can't say we're surprised).

Longtime observers of Tennessee politics will recall that, back when the lottery scholarship program was first devised back in 2003, policymakers then explicitly guaranteed that such funds generated from legalized gambling and lottery proceeds would *only* be used to fund college and postsecondary scholarships for Tennessee students. Now, it seems, that promise has long been forgotten as Lee and Sexton plan to use those exact same dollars to subsidize private schools across the state and confiscate your public dollars to enrich their out-of-state voucher cronies and political dark money groups with a generous taxpayer gift every year.

Even if flooded-out Upper-East Tennessee communities weren't being held hostage for their disaster relief funds in a forced quid-pro-quo exchange for getting onboard with this scam, it would still be an offensive and appalling misuse of vast sums of public dollars.

It's time to get on the phones and call your state officials, folks.

And check out this little gem from the fiscal assumptions on the bill. Lee and Sexton are already admitting that 65% of the voucher recipients are ALREADY IN PRIVATE SCHOOLS that they are ALREADY PAYING FOR out of their own pockets. So how in the world is this bill not a gussied-up welfare program for rich families who are already sending their kids to private schools??

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Check out the bill as filed 👇🏻

https://wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInfo/Default.aspx?BillNumber=HB6004

Have a few minutes to spare?

Call and email your state lawmakers today. Leave them messages. Call them again on Monday.

Tell them that you don’t want to end up with a tax hike to fund Gov. Lee’s $400 million voucher scam that will only hurt our already underfunded public schools.

Tell them that you don’t want Tennessee to commit state dollars to enforcing federal immigration rules.

As representatives at last night’s Town Hall emphasized: the voucher vote will be close. Your representatives need to hear from you!

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We are meeting Tuesday Jan 28 at 6pm at 3131 Morris Ave in the large room to join the city meeting and then at 7pm in the smaller room just us, as District 1.

Hi everyone, we have a last minute change of plans for our meeting on Tuesday. We are actually going to meet at the Public Works building (PWB) at 3131 Morris Ave on Tuesday night (Jan 28.) The change in plans is because the city is holding a public meeting "to present information and data gathered during the community engagement process regarding Knoxville's housing and neighborhood development needs," in the larger room at PWB.

We feel these issues are of particular importance to District 1 and we invite you to join us at 6:00pm in the large room to attend the city meeting and then join us at 7:00pm in the smaller room across from the bathrooms, to have an abbreviated District 1 meeting.

Here is the link to information on the city meeting and consolidated plan:
https://www.knoxvilletn.gov/government/city_departments_offices/housing_and_neighborhood_development/consolidated_plan/

Here is some more information from the website: "the Consolidated Plan helps the City assess its affordable housing and community development needs and market conditions, and make data-driven, place-based investment decisions. The Consolidated Plan serves as the framework for a community-wide dialogue to identify housing and community development priorities that align and focus funding from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)’s Community Planning and Development (CPD) formula block grant programs."

We apologize for the last minute change but hope you will join us at this meeting to represent District 1's needs and suggestions, as well as to learn more about the city's plans.

Thanks for your flexibility and understanding, and see you on Tuesday!
Kristin and Rosina, Co-chairs

On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 8:15 PM Kristin Tocci wrote:
Hello District 1 Dems!

We hope you had a great holiday season and that the start of your 2025 is going well for you. I imagine we are all at varying places in terms of our feelings around the election and our interest/engagement levels. If you're ready - now is a great time for us to gather with others and to start to gameplan how we move forward. A quote that I am really holding on to right now, is "Action is the antidote to despair." (by Joan Baez) So let's get going!

We hope that you all will consider joining us for our first meeting of the new year - where we will ask that you each share your thoughts and ideas for what we focus on as a district and what you hope we can accomplish. Party wide one of our most important issues this year will definitely be protecting public education and opposing voucher legislation. We will also discuss the upcoming KCDP 'Re-Org" where we will elect positions within the party. If you have been looking for a way to get a little more involved, we are also putting the call out for precinct chairs! We have a total of 16 precincts in District 1 - please keep on the lookout for a future email detailing more information about precinct chairs.

Our next meeting will be at KCDP headquarters at 311 Morgan Street on Tuesday January 28th at 6:00pm. We hope to see you there!

- Kristin and Rosina, District 1 co-chairs

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