Bernie
Cox
2023

Bernie Cox 2023Bernie Cox 2023Bernie Cox 2023

Bernie
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2023

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Meet Bernie Cox

Why I'm Qualified

Why I'm Qualified

What If? 

What if a non-politician became a candidate for Mayor of Nashville in the 2023 election? And what if this person recognized the divisiveness as politicians choose politics over policy with no compromise in regards to what is best for Nashville?

Nashville has given birth to the growing pains associated with transit and mobility. We’re business friendly and on the world stage in regards to Healthcare, Music, Sports, Hospitality and Entertainment. Time has fermented for political parties to sit at the conference table, make friends, and negotiate our best choices for Nashville. 

Why I'm Qualified

Why I'm Qualified

Why I'm Qualified

I don't know the personal backgrounds of all my fellow candidates, and they may be qualified to hold the position as leader of this great city. However, qualifications don't naturally make a good mayor. My several years experience as a business owner and entrepreneur has been varied, living as a private citizen and never once living on the taxpayers dime as a politician. In that sense, I am grounded closer to reality with the citizens of Nashville in what we see as real problems and glaringly obvious solutions to our budget and growth plan. It only takes the courage of someone who does not want to play politics with those solutions. We certainly don't have an income problem. Just the opposite.

The Issues

Raising Revenue

Raising Revenue

Don't sit back and watch where others fail. Common sense politics should overwhelming take precedent over indicated party choice. Imagine if left and right arm-chair warriors joined together to actually do what is best for Nashville.


* Transit and Mobility


* Quality Education begins with our teachers


* Supporting Law Enforcement as they provide needs


* Lets make certain new development is good for Nashville. Not politics.


Raising Revenue

Raising Revenue

Raising Revenue

The best economic engine we have is our private industries, creating products and services we want, and thereby creating jobs. Creating jobs is key to creating increased revenue, not through increased taxes but through increased tax payers.  Private industry is by far the best means to do this. 



A mayor with the peoples' best interest will not only embrace this philosophy as a primary means of looking forward, but will put in place policies that encourage entrepreneurs to take the risk at growing a new business, a new idea and make it worth the risk to do so in Nashville.


Can You Hear Me Now?

"The way to build an economy and unify within a population is to work, build and create as opposed to indoctrinate a woke society that complains about anything." 


Mattias Desmet

Transit and Mobility. It's Time

Transit and Mobility. It's Time

Transit and Mobility. It's Time


Our traffic is horrendous, even in times outside rush hour. Rather than focus on space-age solutions for which we don’t have a funding stream, I’d shift focus to repairing our highways, developing a more incentive-based ride-share and public transit program, in addition to geographical placed transit hubs surrounding Nashville, to include


Our traffic is horrendous, even in times outside rush hour. Rather than focus on space-age solutions for which we don’t have a funding stream, I’d shift focus to repairing our highways, developing a more incentive-based ride-share and public transit program, in addition to geographical placed transit hubs surrounding Nashville, to include Congestion Pricing. Car culture is deeply embedded into Nashville, which makes Congestion Pricing  (CP) an extremely tough sell but also infinitely more influential and necessary. 

Think of it this way.

Funding Nashville's transit system is like giving a scholarship to a high schooler who doesn't quite know their potential yet.


For Nashville, I consider Congestion Pricing superior to other car tolls/taxes because it only affects people commuting into downtown. This doesn't impede on healthcare access since Vanderbilt University Medical Center is outside the projected CP zone..

Here's my plan:

- For the first year, only implement Congestion Pricing from 6-9 AM. We can expand the hours later. We need to ease Nashville into it.

- Provide exemptions for all disabled folks and maybe everyone with a less than 25k household income

- Provide a discount to those who live within the Congestion Pricing zone (such as downtown) whereas you will get a 90% discount

- Provide a discount for those who drive electric/high-mpg vehicles

- Reduce the bus fare and make the bus free for public school students and seniors. This would help out low-income folks as well as encourage greater bus ridership.


This is a very realistic plan and can begin next year . . . not 5 years into tomorrow and the effect will be noticed immediate. Obviously, this is a simple realistic and successfulplan that has been very dominant in the U.K. and New York City. We can crerate a much more efficient plan for Nashville!

Support Law Enforcement

Transit and Mobility. It's Time

Transit and Mobility. It's Time

 

I’ve had the privilege to personally speak with several Metro Police officers. Our first responders and law enforcement are key to safety and preservation of Nashville tourism and residents. They should all be compensated with a fair and decent wage for the amazing duties they perform each and every day, and often with threat on their ow

 

I’ve had the privilege to personally speak with several Metro Police officers. Our first responders and law enforcement are key to safety and preservation of Nashville tourism and residents. They should all be compensated with a fair and decent wage for the amazing duties they perform each and every day, and often with threat on their own personal lives.

But, do you know what I hear most from them? They want to be supported. That’s their biggest request is a want to believe that our city and administration has their back while they have ours. It’s about building motivation and security within the departments themselves and not allowing politics to reduce their values to protect, for fear of ridicule by government bureaucracy. Remove unfair political gestures from these amazing men and women, and truly support Law Enforcement. We must ensure we give our first responders, and the public school teachers of our future leaders, the necessary resources they so much deserve.

New and Historic Development

Transit and Mobility. It's Time

New and Historic Development


Our most positive characteristic of Nashville is our charm that is Music City. Our historic architecture that is brick and mortar, artsy streets and downtown neighborhoods make us what we have been most famously known for around the world. In addition, as we grow, we have the most beautiful countryside for friends and neighbors to congreg


Our most positive characteristic of Nashville is our charm that is Music City. Our historic architecture that is brick and mortar, artsy streets and downtown neighborhoods make us what we have been most famously known for around the world. In addition, as we grow, we have the most beautiful countryside for friends and neighbors to congregate and call home. This is an important factor in running for mayor. To protect our heritage and our culture that is so unique to Nashville.


I’ve come to cherish Nashville’s roots as Music City, the Country Music Capital of the World. However, I see that image in jeopardy of being permanently tarnished by a flurry of mismanagement. For instance, the fastest growing investment market in the country is in jeopardy of diluting our Music City culture and unique downtown architectural atmosphere. 


Despite amazing, and necessary growth, our city runs tremendous budget deficits, outsourcing typical revenue-producing services and duties to private industry to run lucrative contracts at the city’s long-term expense. I applaud industry’s innovation to bring positive change to Nashville, but I want to manage that change with a renewed emphasis on maintaining Nashville’s heritage, maintaining the architecture that is so important to us, and reverse those changes that detract from that, as well as detract from tourism.


I will re-focus city development on those projects that enhance our heritage, protecting the tourism industry, and all while operating within our revenue streams. 


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