Robin Kimbrough is U.S. Senate Candidate

Robin Kimbrough Hayes is running for United States Senator to fight for everyday Tennesseans in Washington. She will take on the political culture so that the people’s interests are first, rather than those of businesses and corporations.
Robin grew up in a trailer park in Lexington, Kentucky. She knows what it is like to be poor and also how to find community among differences. She worked hard, earning degrees from Fisk University, Emory Law School, and Vanderbilt University Divinity School.
In her professional career she has worked for people, both as Assistant Attorney General in Tennessee’s Attorney General Office and as Legal Counsel for the Tennessee Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence, where she also trained officers and judges, and drafted successful legislation and policies to keep victims safe and hold batterers accountable. She is a chaplain and ordained elder in the United Methodist Church, leading a weekly Bible study for men and women who are recovering from drug and alcohol abuse.
For many years, Robin was a single mother. She had to pay out-of-pocket for health premiums for her dependent children, and almost $300 for her son’s medication. She took on extra jobs to cover these health expenses and to make sure her children had a good life. She understands that no one should have to work themselves to death to live. This is why she can be trusted to take on the issue of rural healthcare, hospital closures and health insurance premiums. She hears from rural residents who are fearful about getting emergency services because of the hospital closings. This is why she will fight for Medicare for all; affordable medications; and to bring healthcare back to the communities. These essential services improve quality of life for people, improving local economies as well.
Robin also strongly supports Tennessee’s farmers, to make sure we have a safe and healthy food supply, and so that farmers are able to raise and educate their families and earn a fair living. Our farmers are facing difficulty with selling and pricing of their products, because of the pandemic and also because of ill-conceived and harmful tariffs. Small farmers are left behind as large corporate farms get bailouts. Robin will end the tariff wars that have hurt small farms. She is the leadership we need to make sure that farmers have access to tools like broadband, and she will incentivize changes that are helpful to the land and environment so that we may live healthfully into the future.
Robin has a robust criminal justice reform plan, which includes addressing inherent racism in the criminal justice system and its impact on the poor. Robin is not just talking about the opioid crisis; she provides spiritual care to those struggling with addiction. She knows first-hand the impact of this issue on the rural areas of Tennessee and how many folks have had to take in grandchildren as their parents are incapacitated by drug abuse. Robin will reform the criminal justice system so that those struggling with mental health issues and drug dependency can get help, rather than being locked up in for-profit facilities and punished without benefit of therapy.
Americans are reminded that we are in this together and must value the health and dignity of everyone to be successful. Robin will use the same fight that took her from the trailer park in Kentucky to the courtrooms of Tennessee to Washington as your United States Senator. She has passion for Tennessee.
She asks for your vote in the Democratic primary election Thursday, August 6, (early voting begins July 17) and again Tuesday, November 3rd.
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