What Voters Need To Know
1. Organizations with the capacity to send direct mail should ensure that voters know that…
Frequent voters need to read in the mail that multi-millionaire Jeff Burkhartt is out of touch with Clarksville families. While he lives in a multi-million dollar house and owns hundreds of rental units, families are struggling.
This explains why he:
Voted to restrict access to abortions for women and doctors, even in the case rape, incest, and maternal health
Supported by organizations that want to remove access to IVF and birth control
Supported sending our tax dollars to private schools at the expense of keeping public schools open
Approved the expansion toll roads in Tennessee, because he’s so rich he doesn’t understand how hard it is already for working families to make ends meet
2. Organizations with the capacity to broadcast digital video should ensure that voters know that…
Jeff Burkhart supports Tennessee’s extreme abortion ban and has voted to further restrict abortion rights.
Jeff Burkhart voted to allow private companies to charge tolls on Tennessee highways, including Interstate 24.
The only message voters need to know about guns is that Allie Phillips will fight to keep firearms out of the hands of violent criminals and domestic abusers.
3. Organizations with the capacity to show ads on cable should ensure that voters know that…
Allie Phillips is a working mom who understands what it’s like to struggle to pay bills — and that in the State House, Allie will be a champion for working families, veterans, and retirees, and will fight to eliminate the grocery tax, prevent tolls on I-24, and bring down the cost of everyday needs like housing, groceries, and prescription drugs.
About Allie
Allie Phillips is a Democratic candidate for Tennessee State House, District 75 against Republican freshman Jeff Burkhart.
A Tennessee native, she grew up in Ashland City and graduated from high school in Hermitage before attending MTSU. Today, she, her husband Bryan, and her daughter Adalie make their home in Clarksville, TN.
At the age of 22, Allie became a single mother. She worked three jobs while attending school full-time in order to ensure that her daughter had everything she needed. Three years later, Allie met Bryan and their family was complete. Then, in November of 2022, Allie and Bryan learned that they were expecting. They were elated and began to plan, but during a routine anatomy scan at nineteen weeks pregnant, they were informed that their daughter, Miley Rose, was not compatible with life. She had no lung development, only two working chambers in her heart, non-functional kidneys, stomach, and bladder, and a rare brain condition known as Semi-Lobar Holoprosencephaly. On top of this, the longer Allie remained pregnant, the higher the risk to Allie’s own health would become.
After discussing every possible alternative with their doctor, Allie and Bryan decided that termination was the best option for them. Unfortunately, the state of Tennessee had implemented a state-wide abortion ban in August of 2022 which made it impossible. Allie made the difficult decision to fly to New York City to have the procedure done. One week and three days after their appointment, Allie arrived at the clinic in New York to learn that Miley Rose was already gone. Her heart had stopped beating at some point in the last week.
As is often the case, Allie’s body had not yet recognized that she was gone and the high-risk pregnancy became even more dangerous. With a risk of sepsis, blood clots, infections, or more, Allie had to receive an emergency abortion alone: in a city she had never visited before, without her family or her husband by her side.
When Allie returned from New York, she told her story on TikTok where it gained her hundreds of thousands of followers - many of whom were women with similar experiences. Since then, Allie has become a vocal activist for women’s right to choose, and in September of 2023, Allie was one of twelve plaintiffs listed in a suit filed by the Center for Reproductive Rights against the states of Idaho, Tennessee, and Oklahoma for their extremely restrictive abortion bans.
Allie is not a polished politician or a millionaire. She’s a mother, a sister, a daughter, and a friend - and she believes that Tennessee can change for the better. For more information, visit allie4tn.com.