CONSTITUTION DAY PLENARY
Defining Democracy
Michael R. Pence, 48th Vice President of the United States
3:00-4:15 p.m.
Location: Tucker Theatre, 615 Champion Way
Free public parking: Reece Smith lot
Contact: amerdem@mtsu.edu, mary.evins@mtsu.edu

Find our booth at the inaugural Oaklands Mansion Fall Craft Fair. You can register to vote, check your registration status, and learn more about Vote 411 to prepare for the November 5th election.

Find our booth at the Farmers’ Market. You can register to vote, check your registration status, and learn more about Vote 411 to prepare for the November 5th election.

Join us for a Rutherford County House and Senate Forum. All Candidates for House Districts 13, 34, 37, 48 and 49 and Senate District 14 will have an opportunity to introduce themselves and respond to a moderator's questions on a timed basis at a forum being held from 6 – 7:30 PM on Thursday, July 11th  at the Historic Rutherford County Courthouse located at S Public Square, Murfreesboro, TN 37130 in the second floor courtroom.

The following candidates are participating: 

House District 13- Jami Averwater * Jonathan Yancey 

House District 34- Tucker Marcum * Amelia Pant 

House District 37- Cheri Brown

House District 48- Matt Ferry 

House District 49- Luis Mata 

Senate District 14-E.R. Smith

The forum will be hosted by the League of Women Voters (LWV) of Murfreesboro/Rutherford County, the Middle Tennessee Lawyers’ Association for Women (MTLAW) and the Rutherford County Alumnae Chapter of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority (DST) in conjunction with Rutherford County TV (RCTV), the Rutherford County Government Access Channel operated by the Rutherford County Office of Information Technology.

The LWV, the MTLAW and the DST Sorority are all nonpartisan organizations that study and take positions on issues and do not support, endorse or oppose any candidate, party or political appointee.

The public is invited to attend in person or watch live on Rutheford County TV (RCTV) located on Comcast Xfinity channel 19, AT&T U-Verse channel 99, DTC channel 194, and at rutherfordcountytn.gov/rctv. RCTV will also stream the forums live on YouTube at youtube.com/user/RutherfordGovernment/live

Candidates for Rutherford County School Board District 2 and 3, will have an

opportunity to introduce themselves and respond to a moderator's questions on a

timed basis at one forum on the evening of Wednesday, June 5h being held at

the Rutherford County Historic Courthouse on the Murfreesboro Square

beginning at 6 PM.

The forum will be hosted by the League of Women Voters (LWV) of

Murfreesboro/Rutherford County in conjunction with cooperation from the

Rutherford County TV (RCTV), THE RUTHERFORD COUNTY GOVERNMENT

ACCESS CHANNEL.

The public is invited to attend in person or watch live on RCTV.

The public should be seated 10 minutes prior to the start time. There will be no

admittance once the forum is underway.

To ensure an impartial and welcoming environment for all candidates, no

campaign materials (t-shirts, buttons, signs, etc.) are allowed.

A question pool was developed by the League of Women Voters and all candidates

will be asked to answer the same questions. There will be no audience

participation during the forum.

League policy is to offer forums for all contested elections in which a majority of

candidates agree to participate.

The forums can be viewed live on Rutherford County TV (RCTV)

Election Day is August 1st, with early voting scheduled from July 12 - July 27

The public can park on the street where parking is available at no cost

Questions please feel free to contact the LWV at lwvrutherford@gmail.com

Come and support our nominees, Mary Catherine Sevier and Cassandra Taylor. Cost is $60. Please contact Megan Carter, megancarterligon@gmail.com, if you’d like to join the LWV table.

Our annual meeting will be held at the Heritage Center on Tuesday, May 14. While you’re welcome to join us for only the program, we hope you’ll be interested in joining us for dinner—and perhaps bring a friend! Here’s the schedule:

• 5:30 to 6:15 PM
  Arrive anytime for mingling and dinner. This will be a great time to meet or reconnect with members as we continue our conversation and convene our brief official business. Please register below to be included in our dinner plans.  Enjoy dinner from Chipotle’s. Dinner will be $15

• 6:15 to 7:30 PM
  Work together to plan our 2024-2025 year.  We will conduct brief official business for our annual meeting as well as discuss our year ahead. Agenda:

  • Election of new officers

  • Approve 2024-2025 budget

  • Approve next year’s program: voter service

  • Discuss ideas for 2024-2025 league activities

Click the button above to reserve a dinner and pay for your annual dues in one convenient transaction. (If you’ve already paid your dues, there’s a place to indicate that.) We’ll email you an invoice that you can pay online with a credit card, or by check.

About the venue

The Heritage Center is located at 225 W. College St. in Murfreesboro. The building has a small parking lot; parking is free on the area streets and at the nearby Judicial Center parking garage, which has an entrance just north of the Heritage Center off of Walnut St.

In celebration of Earth Day, join us in reading, Saving Us: A Climate Scientist’s Case for Hope and Healing by Katharine Hayhoe. Then, join us on April 23 via Zoom for a book discussion.

Please register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZ0sd-yorjMjH90MTXV_rweDB6mGk2Jr2MKd

After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Registration & Reception

Welcome and Introductions

Mayor’s Welcome

Overview of Format

Q &A from the Audience

Closing Remarks

This event will be televised. Panelists to be announced.

La Vergne City Hall
5093 Murfreesboro Rd
La Vergne, TN

Join us for a fun night of conversation for all members.

Tuesday, February 12
5:30-7:00 p.m.

Joanie’s on the Square
13 S Public Square
Murfreesboro, TN 37130

You’re invited to an Open Forum on school overcrowding and growth in Smyrna.

6:00 PM: Registration and light refreshments
6:15 PM: Program

Speakers include:
Mayor Mary Esther Reed
Deputy Superintendent Dr. Kay Martin
School Board Chair Sheila Bratton
School Board member Frances Rosales
County Commissioners Carl Boyd, Anthony Johnson, and Phil Wilson
Town of Smyrna Councilwoman Racquel Peebles, panel moderator.

Town of Smyrna Council Chambers
315 S. Lowry St.
Smyrna, TN

Please RSVP to lwvrutherford@gmail.com.

Please join us for an online meeting presented by the League of Women Voters of Tennessee. The presentation will explore data-backed perspectives on the next generation as they take on the mantle of democratic engagement and protection.

Click here to register.

Event image courtesy of the League of Women Voters of Tennessee.

Candidates for Murfreesboro mayor, Murfreesboro City Council, and the Murfreesboro City School Board on the upcoming August 4 ballot will have an opportunity to introduce themselves and respond to a moderator's questions on a timed basis at three consecutive forums on Tuesday evening, June 7.

The forums will be hosted by the League of Women Voters of Murfreesboro/Rutherford County in conjunction with Murfreesboro CityTV and the City of Murfreesboro Communications Department.

The public is invited to attend in person, watch live on CityTV, or stream live or later.

The schedule for the forums is

• 5:00-5:35 PM Mayoral candidates
  Nathan Bennett, Tony Lehew, Shane McFarland

• 6:00-7:10 PM City Council candidates (3 seats up for election)
  Jami Averwater, Carolyn Cox, Madelyn Scales Harris, Austin Maxwell, Warren Russell, Samantha Sourinho, Ricky Turner

• 7:30-8:10 PM City School Board candidates (3 seats up for election)
  Karen Dodd, Barbara Long, Amanda Moore, Florence Omachonu

Ending times are approximate. The public should be seated 10 minutes prior to each start time. There will be no admittance once each forum is underway.

A question pool is developed by a League committee with citizen input. You may submit suggested questions to the League at lwvrutherford@gmail.com. The moderator is not publicly aligned with any candidate and makes the final determination of questions.

All questions cannot be used due to time restrictions,but your input is helpful to the moderator in identifying topics of high interest and selecting the final questions from our question bank.

The forum can be viewed live on Murfreesboro City TV located on Comcast Xfinity channels 3 and 1094, Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, Mobile, youtube.com/cityofmurfreesboro, murfreesborotn.gov/citytv, and on the City’s Facebook page at facebook.com/cityofmurfreesborotn.

Early voting runs July 15 through July 30.  

About the venue

The forums will be held in Murfreesboro City Hall’s Council Chambers. Parking is available in the garage under City Hall, or on nearby streets.

To assure an impartial and welcoming environment for all candidates, no campaign materials (t-shirts, buttons, signs, etc.) are allowed.

Mark your calendars: The League is partnering with the United Way of Rutherford and Cannon Counties for a Lunch and Learn on Friday, April 22nd.

We will be viewing excerpts of the documentary Starting at Zero (view trailer below), which emphasizes the importance of quality early childhood education. A panel discussion will follow with

• Trey Duke, Murfreesboro City Schools

• Beth Duffield, Ascension

• Dana N. Glenn, TN Department of Human Services

Deb Thompson, Women United Advisory Council Chair, will moderate.

Registration is required. Register at
https://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/eventReg?oeidk=a07ej37xsyka0250717&oseq=&c=&ch=

The theme for Earth Day 2022 is “Invest In Our Planet.” With that in mind, our April program—which will now be virtual due to having a remote speaker—will explore some ways that citizens here in Rutherford County can invest in renewable energy.

The meeting will feature Tim Suddoth, Distributed Energies Resource Coordinator for Middle Tennessee Electric, and Savannah Robertson from Drive Electric Tennessee.

We’ll be discussing the accessible steps we can all take now and plan to take later to minimize our energy usage.

The Drive Electric portion of the program will address the realities of electric vehicles for us as individuals and for the state as a whole in terms of economic and environmental impact.

About our speakers

Tim Suddoth is the Distributed Energy Resources Coordinator at MTEMC, and is a graduate of Appalachian State University with a degree in Building Science. He has been in the construction and renewable energy industries since 2011; his passion of helping people save money and reduce their carbon footprint led him to his role at MTEMC. Tim enjoys disc golf, gardening, travel, and time with his fiancé and son.

Savannah Robertson is a cat mom, runner, green thumb enthusiast, wannabe beekeeper, lover of the environment and an East Tennessee native. She has a bachelor’s degree in education from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and is the DriveElectricTN Coordinator for ETCeanFules. Her greatest passions lie within supporting people to thrive in our ever changing, modern-day world.

Join us virtually

Time: Apr 12, 2022 06:15 PM Central Time

Join us beginning at 6:15 PM to chat and be ready for a prompt 6:30 start. If you need to slip in a few minutes late, that’s alright, too!

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