Murfreesboro elections · Candidate listing
David Hatley
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Candidate websiteBackground
Hatley says he grew up in Elizabethton and started his first business at 12. His campaign biography says he built and rebuilt nine companies and spent 30 years creating businesses in Tennessee; it does not specify how long he has lived in the area.
Sources: Vote Rutherford candidate profile, Hatley for Governor
What the candidate has said
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State auditing
The questionnaire lists no response to the priorities question. His campaign site says he would create an independent, nonpartisan state auditor, elected statewide and empowered to conduct forensic and performance audits, subpoena records and testimony, and protect whistleblowers.
Vote Rutherford candidate profileJobs and ownership
He says he would keep Tennessee jobs in the state and share company ownership with employees; he presents those as principles he would bring to the governor’s office.
Hatley for Governor