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Brad Fiscus
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Brad Fiscus was a member of the Williamson County Schools in Tennessee, representing District 4. He assumed office in 2018. He left office in 2021.
Fiscus (independent) ran for election to the Tennessee House of Representatives to represent District 63. He lost in the general election on November 3, 2020.
Fiscus completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Fiscus was born in Tipton, Indiana. He earned a bachelor's degree from Indiana University Bloomington in 1989. His career experience includes serving as the Director of NextGen Discipleship for the Tennessee Conference of the United Methodist Church. Fiscus has also served as the lead trainer and policy developer for risk management and as the lead trainer for boundaries and sexual ethics for ministry leaders for the church.[1]
Fiscus has been affiliated with the following organizations:[1]
- Project Transformation Tennessee, founding board member
- Pastors for Tennessee Children, founding board member
Elections
2020
See also: Tennessee House of Representatives elections, 2020
General election
General election for Tennessee House of Representatives District 63
Incumbent Glen Casada defeated Elizabeth Madeira and Brad Fiscus in the general election for Tennessee House of Representatives District 63 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Glen Casada (R) | 59.6 | 33,360 |
 | Elizabeth Madeira (D)  | 32.3 | 18,088 | |
 | Brad Fiscus (Independent) | 8.0 | 4,494 | |
| Total votes: 55,942 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Tennessee House of Representatives District 63
Elizabeth Madeira advanced from the Democratic primary for Tennessee House of Representatives District 63 on August 6, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Elizabeth Madeira | 100.0 | 3,994 |
| Total votes: 3,994 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Tennessee House of Representatives District 63
Incumbent Glen Casada advanced from the Republican primary for Tennessee House of Representatives District 63 on August 6, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Glen Casada | 100.0 | 8,633 |
| Total votes: 8,633 | |||
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2018
See also: Williamson County Schools elections (2018)
General election
General election for Williamson County Schools, District 4
Brad Fiscus defeated Andy Voyles and Timothy McLaughlin in the general election for Williamson County Schools, District 4 on August 2, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Brad Fiscus (Nonpartisan) | 49.1 | 1,465 |
| Andy Voyles (Nonpartisan) | 28.1 | 838 | ||
| Timothy McLaughlin (Nonpartisan) | 22.0 | 657 | ||
| Other/Write-in votes | 0.8 | 24 | ||
| Total votes: 2,984 | |||
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Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Brad Fiscus completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Fiscus' responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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I am a 23 year resident of Tennessee, 22 years in Williamson County. I am a veteran teacher of 13 years. I have served in ministry with the United Methodist Church for the last 15 years. My wife and I have been married 30 years, we are the parents of two young adults. Our daughter is in college, our son is a Senior in high school.
- Integrity Matters
- It's time for District 63 to have a State Representative who represents them with honor and honesty.
- I will lead through listening and learning. I will seek out input from my constituents, I will seek out input from experts. I don't have to be the smartest person in the room but I do need to seek out those who are.
I am a proud supporter of Public Education. I am endorsed by the Network for Public Education because of my fight and commitment to ending the privatization of public education. I believe teachers and education leaders should be compensated well because they are extremely important to the success of the community. Public funds should fund public schools. We need to expand Career Technical Education programs across the state's public schools. We need to put an end to TNREADY. our failed high-stakes testing program that has not operated correctly for years but requires a large financial commitment each year
I believe that healthcare should not be a partisan issue that can be changed at a legislative body's whim. Tennessee is losing millions of dollars annually for not expanding Medicaid. No more than ever in the middle of this pandemic, we should be able to recognize the importance of access to healthcare for all people. As former Senator Bill Frist said, we should demand that our legislative leaders expand Medicaid, those states who did are seeing better health outcomes in this COVID-19 experience.
I have had the opportunity to be surrounding by many great mentors in my life. My parents are both incredibly loving people. They have both worked hard to raise my brothers and sister and me to be people who give back to our communities. I was inspired to serve in public office because of my Great Uncle Donald Dean. Uncle Don was a member of the Indiana House of Representatives from the time I was in middle school through college. He was a well-respected leader who was committed to helping the people of Indiana have better lives. I had the opportunity to visit him while he served in the House and it became something that I always felt I was supposed to do.
Mark 12:31 - Love your neighbor as yourself.
Trustworthiness, Integrity, Honor, Respect, Empathy, Compassion, Commitment, Discernment, Responsibility,
Integrity, honesty, empathy, accessibility, dedication, collaborative, problem solver, humility
I believe that I must be willing to engage and listen deeply to the people that I will be representing. I may not always agree with their point of view but that doesn't make their experience invalid. I have to be available to my constituents. I have to be responsive. I have to be accountable. I have to be committed to serving and preparing to serve.
I would like to leave a legacy of impact where the lives that I am blessed to encounter are better because of our interaction. A legacy that puts people first so that they have the ability to become who they believe they were created to be. I want to leave a legacy where everyone has access to quality education, to quality healthcare, and a legacy of leadership that my constituents felt valued and represented.
I remember being on Spring Break in Florida at my Grandmother's house when President Reagan was shot by John Hinckley. I was a Freshman in high school. I remember being a freshman in college watching the Space Shuttle launch and seeing Challenger explode. I remember being a Freshman in college at Indiana University at a basketball game when Head Coach Bobby Knight threw a chair across the court. I remember holding our newborn daughter on 9/11/.2001 when the planes struck the World Trade Center.
As a young boy growing up in Central Indiana farm country, I worked in the seed corn fields detasseling corn. I learned how to work hard and be committed to doing good work. As I grew older, I moved into new roles with the company as I shifted from field supervisor to field inspector. I even had a stint working construction on a welding crew building a grain drying building. I served in these roles from 12-21 years old. I also spent the summer as a counselor at a camp that helped develop leadership skills in middle and high school students. I served in this role for about 10 years as I moved from counselor to speaker, to curriculum writer and instructor, to camp director. I began teaching middle school and high school science in 1989. I taught for 9 years including summer school before moving to Tennessee where I taught from 1997 to 2001 as a high school science teacher. During this time I also served as a Student Council Advisor, a Football Coach, a Wrestling Coach, and a Track Coach.
The Bible. I find it incredibly interesting and impactful that it is a book that took hundreds of years to write and incorporate a multitude of writers and stories while having a common thread that all points to God.
Groot from Guardians of the Galaxy because of his resilience and commitment to serving his friends and protecting them from harm.
Amazing Grace.
As a 2 on the Eneagram scale, I have always struggled with making sure I was doing everything I could possibly do to help people. Sometimes, I would take their problems or struggles on as my own. As I've grown in understanding, I realize that I can help but I cannot assume ownership of the issue. I can stand by and provide support and encouragement as well as wisdom when it's needed but I cannot try to fix it on my own. This development of boundaries has helped me become a more compassionate as well as empowering as a leader. It has also helped me be less concerned about making decisions so that people will like me and instead make decisions that are right and true based on the data and information available regardless of whether people will appreciate me.
I believe that having the Senate and the House working together provides an important balance of government. It provides the opportunity for more voices and viewpoints to be heard and required before a suggestion becomes a bill and then eventually becomes law or dies. I do believe that there needs to be balanced as I have said previously. The Senate and House need to work together to represent all people, not just the majority parties. These leaders are entrusted with the public good and therefore must treat that responsibility with respect and dignity. This commitment is important as each member of the House represents a smaller group of people and therefore needs to be looking at the impact of decisions on both a personal level as well as at a State level. Each Senator represents are large group of people and while it may be difficult to interact on a personal level with each person, they do need to have a working relationship with each of the Representatives in their community.
I don't think that it has to be a requirement. As with any position of leadership it does require you to know how to lead. I believe that my job as a Representative, first and foremost, is to be available to my constituents so that I can listen, learn, and lead with their needs in mind. I believe I have the qualities necessary to do this job well and I believe serving on the Williamson County Board of Education will help me have a deeper understanding of how to work with diverse and differing opinions.
End the push to privatize Public Education.
Increasing funding for Public Education.
Expanding Medicaid and working to make private insurance more affordable and accessible.
Managing Growth while also building Infrastructure to handle the results of growth.
Building a mass transit system that connects our suburbs to the metro areas and metro areas to each other.
The governor and the state legislature have to trust each other in order to work together. I believe that the Governor should work to serve and lead all people while keeping the best interests of all people in mind instead of trying to please a party platform. I believe that the state legislature needs to work in such a way that they don't intentionally pass bills through to be signed into law that they know is unconstitutional. They need to work together to make sure that all people have a voice and a vote in our democracy.
Yes. I think it's important that legislators build relationships across party divisions and ideologies. Legislators should have a strong commitment to leading with integrity, with accountability, with transparency, and with honor. I think that building relationships with other legislators can help build some accountability and partnership in making sure that the laws that are passed and the budgets that are approved have all Tennesseans in mind.
I believe that we need to move beyond allowing the majority party to have more voice in the redistricting process. We need to have balance in our government so that the real needs of the people are enacted instead of the needs or desires of a party. This is not a game but our leaders have made it a game of winners and losers. The people lose when they have no real representation in government leadership. When redistricting takes place through the lens of the majority party, it becomes extremely difficult for any other voices to be heard in those districts than those of the majority party. It should not be that way, our democracy should be designed so that the full voice of the people is heard and represented.
Education, Heatlhcare, Transportation
As an Independent, I will not have that opportunity.
I appreciate the leadership of the current State Representative (TN65) Sam Whitson. He is well respected, holds this position with honor and works across party lines to serve all people.
As we experience this pandemic, I have had the opportunity to talk with many different people about their level of concern. As a member of the Board of Education, listening to teachers and students' families has been some of the most powerful experiences that has convicted me to put my personal opinions aside as I and my colleagues are tasked with how to safely open schools. Therefore, I have to listen to the medical experts and watch the scientific data related to this virus. As a former teacher, I know that students are best educated in the classroom, at the same time, I have to determine based on science what is the safest way for them to be there. That is why I feel so strongly about each of us doing our part by wearing cloth face coverings. I realize that these are not as effective as N95 masks. However, we have to do what we can to protect the lives of the students and their families as well as the teachers and their families. Leading is difficult, staying true to principles when everyone is attacking is hard but not doing so would be negligent.
I take leading seriously, it's not something I am entitled to do, it's something that I have to commit to doing by building trust and leading with integrity.
I take leading seriously, it's not something I am entitled to do, it's something that I have to commit to doing by building trust and leading with integrity.
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See also
2020 Elections
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Footnotes
Current members of the Tennessee House of Representatives
Leadership
Speaker of the House:Cameron Sexton
Majority Leader:William Lamberth
Minority Leader:Karen Camper
Representatives
District 1
John Crawford (R)
District 2
Bud Hulsey (R)
District 3
Timothy Hill (R)
District 4
Renea Jones (R)
District 5
David Hawk (R)
District 6
Tim Hicks (R)
District 7
District 8
Jerome Moon (R)
District 9
Gary Hicks (R)
District 10
Rick Eldridge (R)
District 11
Jeremy Faison (R)
District 12
Fred Atchley (R)
District 13
Robert Stevens (R)
District 14
Jason Zachary (R)
District 15
Sam McKenzie (D)
District 16
District 17
Andrew Farmer (R)
District 18
Elaine Davis (R)
District 19
Dave Wright (R)
District 20
Tom Stinnett (R)
District 21
Lowell Russell (R)
District 22
Dan Howell (R)
District 23
Mark Cochran (R)
District 24
Kevin Raper (R)
District 25
Cameron Sexton (R)
District 26
Greg Martin (R)
District 27
Michele Reneau (R)
District 28
Yusuf Hakeem (D)
District 29
Greg Vital (R)
District 30
Esther Helton (R)
District 31
Ron Travis (R)
District 32
Monty Fritts (R)
District 33
District 34
Tim Rudd (R)
District 35
William Slater (R)
District 36
Dennis Powers (R)
District 37
Charlie Baum (R)
District 38
Kelly Keisling (R)
District 39
Iris Rudder (R)
District 40
Michael Hale (R)
District 41
Ed Butler (R)
District 42
Ryan Williams (R)
District 43
Paul Sherrell (R)
District 44
William Lamberth (R)
District 45
Johnny Garrett (R)
District 46
Clark Boyd (R)
District 47
Rush Bricken (R)
District 48
Bryan Terry (R)
District 49
Mike Sparks (R)
District 50
Bo Mitchell (D)
District 51
Aftyn Behn (D)
District 52
Justin Jones (D)
District 53
Jason Powell (D)
District 54
Vincent Dixie (D)
District 55
John Clemmons (D)
District 56
Bob Freeman (D)
District 57
Susan Lynn (R)
District 58
Harold Love (D)
District 59
Caleb Hemmer (D)
District 60
District 61
Gino Bulso (R)
District 62
Pat Marsh (R)
District 63
Jake McCalmon (R)
District 64
Scott Cepicky (R)
District 65
Lee Reeves (R)
District 66
Sabi Kumar (R)
District 67
Ronnie Glynn (D)
District 68
Aron Maberry (R)
District 69
Jody Barrett (R)
District 70
Clay Doggett (R)
District 71
Kip Capley (R)
District 72
Kirk Haston (R)
District 73
Chris Todd (R)
District 74
Jay Reedy (R)
District 75
Jeff Burkhart (R)
District 76
Tandy Darby (R)
District 77
Rusty Grills (R)
District 78
Mary Littleton (R)
District 79
Brock Martin (R)
District 80
Johnny Shaw (D)
District 81
Debra Moody (R)
District 82
Chris Hurt (R)
District 83
Mark White (R)
District 84
Joe Towns (D)
District 85
Jesse Chism (D)
District 86
Justin Pearson (D)
District 87
Karen Camper (D)
District 88
Larry Miller (D)
District 89
Justin Lafferty (R)
District 90
Gloria Johnson (D)
District 91
Torrey Harris (D)
District 92
Todd Warner (R)
District 93
G.A. Hardaway (D)
District 94
Ron Gant (R)
District 95
Kevin Vaughan (R)
District 96
Gabby Salinas (D)
District 97
John Gillespie (R)
District 98
District 99
Tom Leatherwood (R)
Republican Party (75)
Democratic Party (24)
