Elect Wayne Steele for Tennessee State Senate
District 16
WE’RE NOT GOING BACK!
Wayne Steele was born and raised in Fayetteville, Tennessee, a 7th Generation Tennessean. His late father was a skill-trained diesel mechanic and owner-operator truck driver, while his mother was a homemaker and factory and food service worker who is currently retired on his father’s survivor’s benefits.
He attended Lincoln County, Tennessee, public schools, Highland Rim Elementary, Central Junior High, and Lincoln County High School through the 11th Grade and graduated high school from Gateway Christian Schools’ home school program. He went to vocational schools in Nashville and Salt Lake City to train in the art of massage therapy, where he held a license with the Tennessee Department of Health from 2008 until 2024. Wayne went on to complete an Associate’s in Psychology in 2013, a Bachelor’s in Alternative Medicine in 2017, and a Master’s in Public Health Administration in 2024.
Wayne aspires to one day research the mind-body connection between PTSD and physical ailments like neuropathy, fibromyalgia, and adrenal function.
Wayne’s First-Term Agenda:
- Codifying Roe, Obergefell, Lawrence, and Griswold, ERA, and IVF treatment into law at the state level
- Introduce a State Constitutional Amendment protecting Roe, Obergefell, Lawrence, Griswold, ERA, and IVF treatment
- Banning the use of public school money to fund private or religious charter schools
- Free school breakfast and lunches Pre-K through 12
- Make all food sales tax-free
- Make all clothes individually priced under $100 sales tax-free
- Subsidizing small, family farms to lower costs
- Make SNAP/EBT available for payment with local farmers and farmers’ markets at no-cost to the farmers
- Medicaid Expansion
- Mandatory background check receipt before completion of gun sales
- Mandatory red flag laws for gun ownership
- Banning gun ownership for those with domestic violence records
- Decriminalizing medicinal and recreational use of marijuana
- Subsidizing marijuana farming, especially minority groups like women, BIPOC, LGBT farmers, and up to 20 plants for personal use
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Why I am Running
Wayne Steele has 16 years of experience in our alternative and specialized healthcare systems and has worked for the U.S. Census Bureau twice in the Decennial Censuses of 2010 and 2020. He is a person with many invisible disabilities and has learned how to navigate the broken system; most people do not have an advocate to help with their health. He has seen the problems firsthand and will fight for Tennesseans in District 16 and across the state.