Dear TDC Family,

Happy Friday, TDC Family! And, of course, ‘twas another wild week down at the Tennessee General Assembly as our elected officials sprint towards the exits.

Happy Friday TDC Family! And what a happy Friday it is – I’m feeling all sorts of filled up over here after seeing so many of you this week. I’m filled up with gratitude, filled up with optimism, filled up with love for this community, but I’m also filled up with some fire. The sight of so many of us filling up the corridors of Cordell Hull reminds me that there is so much work to be done in this state.

With great speed and ferocity, the General Assembly carries on! As do we! I get the sense that this little dispatch is going to be a long one this week, so I’ll keep this short. Have you seen the movie, Mr.

Things are starting to happen my friends. The Governor’s administration’s priority bills have reached or are about to reach the respective chamber floors, we’re seeing some bills fall off the table, and, of course, the most important happening is that our ABLE bill passed its first (small) hurdles! I’ll get into it more in the following section, but the General Assembly is officially full speed ahead.

Buzzing bees, heaping plates, two-year old’s who have assigned themselves housework, standing neck-deep in the swamp and other idioms and metaphors for frenzied busyness, etc.