Patti Young
Patti Young (Democratic Party) is running for election to the Tennessee State Senate to represent District 2. She is on the ballot in the Democratic primary on August 1, 2024.[source]
Young completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Patti Young was born in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Young's career experience includes working as a teacher, artist, and playwrite. She earned a graduate degree from the University of Tennessee in 1998.[1]
Young has been affiliated with the following organizations:[1]
- NAACP
- Southern Poverty Law Center
- Planned Parenthood
- Democratic Womens Group
- Blount County Democratic Party
- Blount County Animal Welfare Society
Elections
2024
See also: Tennessee State Senate elections, 2024
General election
The primary will occur on August 1, 2024. The general election will occur on November 5, 2024. General election candidates will be added here following the primary.
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Tennessee State Senate District 2
Patti Young is running in the Democratic primary for Tennessee State Senate District 2 on August 1, 2024.
Candidate | ||
 | Patti Young  | |
| ||||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Republican primary election
Republican primary for Tennessee State Senate District 2
Tom Hatcher, John Pullias, and Bryan Richey are running in the Republican primary for Tennessee State Senate District 2 on August 1, 2024.
Candidate | ||
 | Tom Hatcher | |
 | John Pullias | |
 | Bryan Richey | |
| ||||
| = candidate completed the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey. | ||||
| If you are a candidate and would like to tell readers and voters more about why they should vote for you, complete the Ballotpedia Candidate Connection Survey. | ||||
Do you want a spreadsheet of this type of data? Contact our sales team. | ||||
Endorsements
Ballotpedia is gathering information about candidate endorsements. To send us an endorsement, click here.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Patti Young completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Young's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
| Collapse all
I am a retired teacher from Blount County Tennessee. I have worked tirelessly the past 7 years with grassroots groups that are working to keep the United States a democracy and advocate for the rights of women, safe gun legislation, protecting our environment and saving our public schools from the dangerous voucher scam. I own a small equestrian facility in Marvyille and I am the Vice Chair of the Blount County Democratic Party.
- I am against school vouchers and believe that our tax dollars need to stay in our national treasures...public schools.
- I am against all legislation that takes away the rights of women to get health care they need.
- I am a gun owner and believe that our 2nd amendment right to own guns is valid. However the state of Tennessee has no sensible regulations to keep people safe from gun violence. That has to change. It is dangerous to live here in Tennessee.
vouchers, gun regulations, women's rights.
A state senator can not only vote on bills but can write and bring them to the legislative body to vote on.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
The Giver....our TN super majority is stripping away our rights.
To work for the people in their districts not to gain personal wealth and power.
I am honest and care about people, not money or power
To honestly do what is best for the families in our state.
I helped keep kids safe from guns in schools by passing sensible gun laws
John F Kennedy's death (2nd grade)
Teaching art at Boys and Girls Clubs of America for two years.
Beautiful Joe, a dog finds loving people to care for him
a dragon. strong fearless and can fly
Perfect by Ed Sheeran
Not being able to help every child or animal in need.
Representing the people in my district so that they will have the opportunity to earn a living wage and send their kids to fully funded public schools etc. Protecting our TN families is my priority.
No, more normal citizens should run for office. If you care about TN and its people...you are of age, not a criminal....you should run for office
HONESTY and a commitment to listen to their constituents.
I don't have one
Change TN others are pending
It is an absolute necessity. We currently have a too many people in office in TN, that are doing the bidding from out of state money or huge corporations. It needs to be more widely known how much money and pressure they receive.
Note: Ballotpedia reserves the right to edit Candidate Connection survey responses. Any edits made by Ballotpedia will be clearly marked with [brackets] for the public. If the candidate disagrees with an edit, he or she may request the full removal of the survey response from Ballotpedia.org. Ballotpedia does not edit or correct typographical errors unless the candidate's campaign requests it.
Campaign finance summary
Note: The finance data shown here comes from the disclosures required of candidates and parties. Depending on the election or state, this may represent only a portion of all the funds spent on their behalf. Satellite spending groups may or may not have expended funds related to the candidate or politician on whose page you are reading this disclaimer. Campaign finance data from elections may be incomplete. For elections to federal offices, complete data can be found at the FEC website. Click here for more on federal campaign finance law and here for more on state campaign finance law.
See also
2024 Elections
External links
Footnotes
