Jayla Thomas for Tennessee State Representative District 55 Nashville

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Building Tennessee’s Future

Strengthen Infrastructure

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Defend Generational wealth Transfer

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Create Real Jobs & Pathways to in-demand skills

Jayla Thomas on the issues

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Housing: Support a Cap on Property Tax Increases - Move to dramatically reduce or remove property taxes for homeowners 65 and up first .

Education: School choice reform. Vouchers are great but the way TN is implementing them are wrong. We need to move toward fixing public schools as well. Possible classical education options (they are often cheaper and give a reliable education.)

School & Employment: Not everyone is college bound, begin empowering and training early. Begin partnerships, mentorship and apprenticeship opportunities to empower farming, trades, and high paying industry.

Infrastructure: The Energy infrastructure needs massive help. We need to do an “And” approach, not an “Or” approach. Begin training and preparing for Nuclear.

Protection: Support legislation to stop corporations from replacing Tennessee workers with AI & forbidding electric utilities from raising rates on residential, commercial, or industry customers due to increase power demand from AI infrastructure.

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Mother • ProfessionAL • Leader

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Jayla Thomas is a business leader, energy advocate, and mother of two who believes leadership means running toward hard problems, not away from them. Born and raised in Las Vegas and educated in New York, she has seen firsthand what happens when growth outpaces infrastructure and working families are priced out of their communities. Now raising her family in Nashville, Jayla is committed to preserving the culture and character that make Tennessee home. With a degree in Biological Sciences, she brings a system based, problem solving approach to public service shaped by her work in business consulting, M&A, and energy infrastructure. As a commissioner on Nashville’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund, she sees the real cost of policy failure when families are pushed out of the very neighborhoods their parents helped build. Jayla’s outsider perspective is her strength, having witnessed the mistakes made elsewhere, she is determined to ensure Nashville grows with intention, protects generational wealth, and builds infrastructure that works for people, not special interests.

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