I have never felt more proud to call myself a Chattanoogan. With new players on the City Council and a move for a greater consolidation between City and County governments, you can be assured Chattanooga is preparing herself for a grand and glorious future.

We have the next four years to continue the task of identifying the essential priorities that will ensure we are able to take the shrinking budget and invest in needed job creation, education, and recreation.

This is not an easy task and undoubtedly there will be some who do not fully agree with the direction the Council may take. This is understandable. But what is needed in this time is not continued arguments, what we need rather is a renewed faith we are seeking to move in a direction that will benefit the most with the all that has been entrusted to us.

This spirit of cooperation and understanding will yield new partnerships, greater productivity, and new hopes

And this will yet again prove we are entering a new age in the city of Chattanooga.

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Let’s go change our city.

Andrae

We have come this far to discover this one important point: the future belongs to us. It is a future this time we will not be denied.

Just as no one cannot stop the sun above from shinning, though they have tried, they cannot stop a new dawn from coming to District 8.

We have sweated, we have toiled. We have persuaded, we have convinced.

Now to usher in this new era you must cast your vote.

Your vote promises to dissipate the last traces of darkness, causing the glory of a new day to break ever-more radiantly upon us. It is the dawn promising the warmth of safer communities, more long-lasting, family wage jobs, and more beautiful places to play.

Your vote is a yes to a future we all can embrace.

Your vote is the tool to make the place we call home the place of our dreams.

Your vote is a ray of sun.

Join us to celebrate this new day we all will share @ the John Henry Studio (1100 E. 16th St.) from 7PM-11PM.

I’ll see you there.

Andrae

But if we learn anything from these holidays, it is the reality of hope.

These holidays teach us no matter the circumstance, no matter the challenges we are always surrounded by the evidence that when people come together and set aside their differences and unite together around their shared interests the darkness begins to dissipate and the dawn begins to to break upon us.

We are two days away from seeing the fulfillment of the hope that has been born over the course of this campaign.

Thank you for joining me in the journey.

Early voting will begin taking place today at the Hamilton County Election Comission, and will run through April 8.  Voting hours are Mon-Fri, 8:00 a.m. through 6:00 p.m., and Saturdays from 9:00 a.m. through 6:00 p.m.  Lets go out and support Andrae in his quest for change.

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Hello. I would like to take this opprotunity to inform you of a phone bank that will will be holding this week. The event will be held on Monday-Thursday of this week, from 5:30 to 8:30, at  735 Broad Street (The James Building) Suite 1004, The Waterhouse Public Relations Firm.

We will be contacting voters to first, thank them for their interest in the communuity, to let them know how valuable they are in implementing change, and to express our great appreciation of their support.  All volunteers are welcome and will be greatly appreciated.  If you have any questions, please contact Chris Thurman at 423-362-1236, or at Chthurman@yahoo.com.  Come out and help make history.

30 days to make phone calls to supporters and undecideds (and even win over a new supporter from the other side).

30 days to brave wind, rain, or heat to knock on doors and spread the message of why change so desperately needs to come to district 8.

30 days to remember our communities, schools, and businesses cannot not wait another 4 years to find the support they need. We have already waited 18 years for district wide representation. That is 18 years too long to wait to rid our neighborhoods of drugs, to ensure our young people receive the quality after-school and summer programming they need to succeed, and to bring quality long-lasting jobs to our district. We need change and we need change now.

It is quite a thought: 30 days to affect the next 4 years. Or 8 years. Or even 30 years.

All this reflecting reminds me that the efforts we have begun more than 3 months ago are not without purpose. We have not stepped out on this campaign trail only to make a name for ourselves or to simply to find something to do to pass the time. No, we are courageously embarking on one of the most pressing challenges before us all: to look reality in the eye with all its broken, disjointed pieces and armed only with faith in one another what tomorrow may hold, to begin the long, arduous work of creating something beautiful for all our communities. For our city. And for our children.

That is why I am in this race.

That is why we will continue to countdown until change comes.

30 days left to a new dawn.

Join us Monday as we talk about the next steps to elect Andrae as our Councilman for District 8 and bring needed change to our city.

Monday, March 9th (6:00-8:00PM)
Downtown YMCA (301 W 6th St. Chattanooga, TN)