Ray Brown
Independent | Tennessee
Candidate Profile
Moderate
BIOGRAPHY
EDUCATION
Roane State, Harriman, AS, 2005-
Pellissippi Statestate, Knoxville, Overhead crane safety, 2011-
TCAT, Harriman, Metrology, 2011-
Roane State @ ORNL, Oak Ridge, Advanced materials program., 2011-
Oakdale High-school, Oakdale, HS, 2002-
WORK & MILITARY
Home Depot, Sales Associate, 2002-
Food City, Assistant Store Manager, 2007-
Delta 21 resources, Intelligence specialist, 2011-
Sunelco, Electrician, 2012-
IBEW 270, Electrician, 2018-
AFFILIATIONS
Beech Park Baptist Church, Member, 2002-2026
POLITICAL OFFICES HELD
Candidate did not provide
POLITICAL OFFICES SOUGHT
Governor of Tennessee, 2026-
ENDORSEMENTS
REPORTED BY CANDIDATE (1)
Not a Bootlicker
OTHER INFORMATION
QUESTIONNAIRE
RIGHT TO LIFE
Abortion providers, including Planned Parenthood, should not receive taxpayer funds from federal, state, or local governments (including Title X grants).
Choose not to answer
Abortion is illegal in Tennessee due to the legislators. So this is just a loaded question.
Under what circumstances should an elective abortion be allowed?
What it is under current law.
Human life deserves legal protection from conception until natural death.
Neutral
This is a gray area due to current tax laws.That the State of Tennessee benefits from Federally. If an unmarried mother, not knowing who the father is lists ten possibilities. Under current law all 10 of these individuals is going to be responsible for child support? Hypothetically speaking, Can't get to paternity until the baby is 6 months old Let's say. Meaning that all 10 of those possible baby daddies paying til then makes the Federal government pay the State of Tennessee 2x more per child.
The lives of human embryos created through artificial methods ought to be protected from purposeful destruction.
Agree
Conception is conception, doesn't matter how you do it.
The Comstock Act, which bans interstate transportation of abortion-inducing drugs, should be enforced.
Agree
If it is a law that needs to be changed Voters would change it, but it's a law that we voted on and needs to be upheld.
ECONOMY
What is your position on the minimum wage?
Well, in State of Tennessee, we have reverted to the federal government to set minimum wage.
Free enterprise and the right to private property are essential elements of a productive economic system.
Strongly Agree
It gives families in Tennessee, something to work for. Lord knows that the State has already tore core family values out the windows for it's own profit. That's for most families in Tennessee, the only thing we have left to have hope for.
List your top 3-5 priorities to eliminate government waste.
Going to make parenting legal again. Tennessee spends so much money chasing that Federal money just to play Mommy and Daddy to able body Mommies and Daddies. Most of the time, because bitterness between one parent against the other and children are trapped in this. I want the legislative body to revisit true fifty-fifty custody not this Lipstick on the pig. When you spend 60 thinking you'll get 66 and only get 50. It makes the State move assets to gain more money that is morally wrong.
RELIGIOUS LIBERTY
What does "separation of church and state" mean to you?
It's part of the founding fathers dream, to have a country so an Individual can Worship God in their own walk of faith.
Individuals and businesses should be required to provide services even if it would violate their moral and/or religious beliefs.
Neutral
If Papa John's can deny me paying with a hundred dollar bill to pick up a pizza order that costs almost $90 cause it's their policy. How would anyone one know your moral or religious beliefs unless it's show or told at purchase? Money is money that's why one is in business to make more of it.
HEALTHCARE
What most closely matches your view on healthcare: A) Healthcare for all should be guaranteed and funded by the government with no private healthcare option. (includes "universal healthcare," "medicare for all," etc.) B) Healthcare insurance funded by the government should be available for all who want it, along with private healthcare options. C) Medicaid and Medicare should remain available, but no other taxpayer-funded programs are necessary. D) Taxpayer funded health care should be abolished in all forms, and Medicaid and Medicare should be defunded.
My answer is sort of B except one has to work for it, if one don't work they don't eat.
The government should keep a database of people with various ongoing medical illnesses to assess the economic burden of treatment.
Neutral
Someone already does this, i see a vehicle all the time in front of Cancer Doctors pulling into parking lots with mobile flock camera technology. It's a shame what if they reported to your insurance company? Would they not raise your premiums to have this kind of information? Or even the hint of possibility of Cancer it would be devastating hard to find good affordable life insurance plans before a diagnosis.
NATIONAL SECURITY
The Chinese Communist Party poses serious military, cyber security, intellectual property, and global economic threats to the United States.
Neutral
The chinese communist party poses threat to Taiwan which we depend on. Threats we have to look out for has been Iran and Russia. Iran's been buying up US technology for years, from Carbon Fiber technology to electronic manufacturing.
Is the United States' relationship with Israel important, and if so why?
Very Important cause centuries of Holy wars have been fought to maintain those grounds. Surrender is never an option, especially for such sacred Historic grounds. It is like Georgia wanting Tennessee to give up the Tennessee River just so if they can rename it, the Georgia River. To the victors goes to spoils and with such history how it's remembered as well. Maintaining Relationship with Israel is important to both Gentiles and Jews, so we don't forget where we come from an how we got here.
IMMIGRATION
I support the existence of sanctuary cities to protect undocumented persons.
Strongly Disagree
Harboring a fugitive is harboring a fugitive. No matter what aspect of any moral beliefs, we have laws to protect and laws that everyone must follow.
EDUCATION
I support eliminating the U.S. Department of Education and giving control back to states and communities.
Agree
I have so much personal insight to various different education structure throughout the state. The Tennessee education system is going to be reformed, so much changes are yet to come. Ivy League colleges are going to accept Tennessee students just because they're from Tennessee. Stem schools are Tennessee Schools, i understand that a lot of children, they're not able to focus due to home environments or some sort of unsafe environment. 50/50 parenting will help develop a chance of success.
Foreign governments should be prohibited from funding American education.
Neutral
The US federal government was not doing a good job with help funding our teachers needs. Only supports other entities such as local and state, and the last option should be foreign governments, due too unwanted indoctrination of ideologies, young individuals should not be exposed to.
VALUES
Government should recognize and support the fundamental right and essential duty of parents to direct their child's health and educational well-being.
Agree
There are some instances where the other parent may be indoctrinating medication just to sabotage the other parents time. In which these cases need to be observed on a case-by-case basis for the safety of the children.
Attempts to physically or socially transition a child to the opposite sex constitute child abuse.
Strongly Agree
They're not consenting adults..
Marriage is a God-ordained, sacred and legal union of one man and one woman. No government has the authority to alter this definition.
Strongly Agree
Marriage God-ordained yes one man one woman, also, believe unity and coexisting of Same-sex individuals is a private matter it's not God pleasing in my personal eyes, but that's why we have different beliefs and freedom to worship. The government should have no right to place or say who's inside an individuals home. Next individuals are going to shunned cause of denomination or eye and hair color.
I support the expansion of gambling in my state.
Agree
It happens all the time and with the expansion of gambling, it can be legally controlled and revenued.
Briefly describe your spiritual beliefs and values.
Well, my spiritual beliefs, I'm pretty straightforward. I believe in Jesus Christ died on the cross, resurrected, and Insurrected all of our sins that we will not perish, but have every lasting spiritual life. My spiritual journey is the main reason why I'm running for Governor of Tennessee. James 4:17 "If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn't do it, it is sin for them." Too many times I have seen families struggling. Because the State of Tennessee wants to squeeze more money from families who have children so the federal government will pay the state more money. Too many times I have seen judicial officers blatantly lie and destroy evidence in court just to make a more money, devastating families throughout Tennessee.
ELECTIONS AND VOTING
People should be able to vote without photo identification.
Agree
If they're over a certain age, and if they can provide two forms of ID, a lot of elder individuals throughout Tennessee possess identification from the state that has no current picture posted.
EQUALITY
Reparations should be given to people on the basis of race.
Strongly Disagree
Reparations are for individuals who have been wrong themselves. No matter race, religion, or idiotology.
Biological males should not be allowed to participate in women's sports or occupy biological women's spaces whether it be bathrooms, locker rooms, sorority houses, women's shelters, or prison.
Strongly Agree
It's called woman's sports for a reason. Women's shelters is for women to feel safe from event's that are currently happening in one's life, most needing to feel safe and needs a hand up not a handout.
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENT
Man-made climate change is a global threat and requires urgent political action.
Neutral
A lot of these practices are century old techniques to help farming in drought areas. If it's going to be weaponized, then yes, we need a form of action, but USDA should be regulating some of these actions.
What do you believe is the most reliable energy source that will supply the growing demand for electricity?
Hydro power, one needs a starting power source to initially start a nuclear reactor.
ABOUT YOU
When you consider your views on a wide range of issues from economic and social matters to foreign policy and religious liberty, which of the following best describes you overall?
Lean Conservative
I'm going to do what's morally right no matter what.
Have you ever been penalized for sexual misconduct in either civil or criminal court? If so, please explain.
N/A
Have you ever been convicted of a felony? If so, please explain.
No
CRIMINAL JUSTICE & PUBLIC SAFETY
What should be the goal of the criminal justice system?
Find the truth and make it public knowledge, as it sits right now The Grand Jury would indict a Ham Sandwich, if they think they can make money on it. And we as Tennessee, citizens would never find out about it due to crazy Tennessee laws. We have laws on the books laws protecting the citizens from finding out the amount of illegal and or legal activities going on because there's no clarity within the government. All the citizens are wanting is the whole truth not just rainbows and unicorns.
Government has a responsibility to protect children from sexual exploitation during online activities.
Strongly Agree
Especially now.? especially since the government play's mommy and daddy all the time. This should be the parents responsibility, yet since the State of Tennessee uses children as political leverage every day. This again it is another supporting factor of having present of both parents in a child's life.
Sharia law should not be accepted or incorporated in any form within the legal framework of the United States.
Strongly Agree
It is totally different from our founding laws, which supposed to be the core value of the Tennessee family. Then again this goes back to stop trying to place a flock camera in everyone's bed room. It's embarking on personal beliefs and personally for myself my house shall be built upon the solid rock of a Christianity Home. Immortality of wrong and wrong makes everything correct will not and shall not fly in Tennessee.
2ND AMENDMENT
What restrictions on gun ownership are needed to protect public safety?
Remove the current restrictions and restore constitution gun rights completely, we live in the great state of Tennessee. We tennesseeans are known for our guns and our citizens should be able to have full gun rights.
