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I just wanted to check in here to let everyone know that it is best to look for content on Substack now: Here is the link to the first campaign Substack – Tamara’s SOAPbox. https://substack.com/home/post/p-207338610 Here is my new website: Bavendam4robco.combavendam4robco.com While the chances that I unseat the incumbent are not GREAT, the Cook ReportContinue reading “Bavendam4Robco.com survives”

What a 2 months it has been. I am finally ready to reflect on all that has happened. My intention when I filed to run for this office was to be on the ballot so the 10 year incumbent would not run unopposed. I thought the campaign would help build community for the Robertson CountyContinue reading “Getting out ahead of my skis….. and surviving”

I had to wait a week for my photo shoot as my photographer went to DC to see family and the cherry blossoms. My hair was perfect last week – ah well. I drove to Nashville to have Natalie do my makeup. I had given away most of my professional clothes and was determined notContinue reading “Photo Shoot is done”

Have you seen happier OLD Folks? At the end of No Kings 3 in Springfield yesterday, we looked at each other, relieved, and said “We did good today!” Craig is amazing at making posters and everything else that needs to be done. It was sunny and breezy. We had about 200 people at peak. TheContinue reading “We did GOOD this week!!”

In Tennessee, Sheriff’s departments can voluntarily cooperate with ICE without the input of the people who elected them. Our Robertson County Sheriff has been cooperating and their actions have largely been going unnoticed until recently. Young Hispanic men are being taken into custody after they appear in Traffic Court for minor violations. This drew coverageContinue reading “We had a GREAT week”

I filed my paperwork with the TN Ethics and Campaign Finance Office which (I think) is the last official step to running. I have a PO Box, a bank account and am working on a domain for website and email address. I need to get access to VoteBuilder – the Democratic National Database of registeredContinue reading “And the fun begins”

Tomorrow I will turn in my petition (signatures) to run for TN House District 66. I need 25; I have 35, sort of. Some of the signatures are not in the correct format so I am not sure how much of a stickler they will be. I assume pretty strict so I may need toContinue reading “I am going to run for TN House of Representatives District 66”

I am going to use this space to process a decision am trying to make. After the last post in early December, I drove to Iowa for a family funeral getting caught in the snow storm giving me extra time with family. This was not bad except Craig was back in TN with a miserableContinue reading “A Crazy Few Months – should I or shouldn’t I?”

We turned our disappointment about the Special Election into ACTION. Craig turned his car trailer into a structure for a float. This took him several days of planning and constructing. It was designed to have a red, white and blue table skirt surrounding the wooden frame and a LED American Flag for the front butContinue reading “Strutting our Views in Robertson County”

The result of the Special Election, the focus our lives since July, “STINKS” but it does not negate all of the progress we made in Robertson County and throughout District 7 to build of community of people who want to see change and now KNOW it can happen. IT IS WORTH THE EFFORT. We haveContinue reading “Disappointment but not Defeat”