- Occupation: Director, Child and Family Policy Center, VIPPS
- 1990-96, House Majority Leader - Tennessee House of Representatives
- First urban legislator elected to serve as Majority Leader in Tennessee
- Served 7 years as Chair of the state's Select Committee on Children and Youth
- Led state efforts in education, criminal sentencing, health care, telecommunications reform, and workers compensation.
- Bill and his wife Debbie have one daughter, Jesse, a sixth-grade student in Nashville's public school system.
- The Purcells are residents of East Nashville's historic Lockeland Springs neighborhood.
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Top Priorities if Elected |
- Education: smaller classes, Family Resource Centers, early childhood development, intervention for troubled kids, teacher support and training.
- Crime and Safety: safe neighborhoods and communities, initiatives to identify and break up gangs and to attack illegal guns
- Neighborhoods and Communities: quality of life issues that affect people where they live and work.
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- Nashville teachers, through endorsement by the MNEA
- African-American legislators, council members and religous leaders
- 27 business leaders who have formed the Purcell Business Advisory Council
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- Bringing the best to our schools
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Bill Purcell is committed to making sure that every school is a good school where children are safe.
- Fighting crime to keep Nashville safe
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Purcell's Crime Plan for Nashville includes more police officers for neighborhood patrols, a Gangbusters program to attack and break up gangs, and a focus on penalties for illegal guns.
- Putting our neighborhoods and communities first
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Bill Purcell believes we must continue to move Nashville forward while protecting the quality of life in every neighborhood and community across the city.
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