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Charles Robert Bone
| Charles Robert Bone | |||
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| Basic facts | |||
| Organization: | Bone McAllester Norton | ||
| Role: | Partner and Attorney | ||
| Location: | Nashville, Tennessee | ||
| Expertise: | Law | ||
| Education: | •Rhodes College (B.A.,1996) •Vanderbilt University Law School (J.D., 2000) | ||
| Website: | Official website | ||
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Charles Robert Bone is a partner and attorney at Bone McAllester Norton, a legal firm based in Nashville, Tennessee. Bone is also an entrepreneur with interests in several Nashville-based companies. In 2015, Bone ran for mayor of Nashville, but lost in the August 6 general election.
Career
Since 1990, Charles Robert Bone has been active in politics, according to his bio. In 2006, he served as finance chairman to Rep. Harold Ford Jr.'s U.S. Senate campaign.[1] In 1998, Bone ran for a Tennessee House seat for Sumner County, but lost.[2] Later, in 2008 and in 2012, Bone was on President Barack Obama's National Finance Committees.[1]
As an entrepreneur, Bone founded Phoenix Boats, the Southern Steak & Oyster restaurant, and Acme Feed & Seed, among other ventures.[1]
In 2000, after earning his J.D. at Vanderbilt, Bone became a partner at Bone McAllester Norton, where he has remained since. His area of expertise is in commercial transactions, commercial litigation, complex litigation, entrepreneurial business law, personal injury and medical malpractice.[3]
Bone is an investment partner for the Tennessee Angel Fund, a statewide co-investment fund; he also serves on the fund's investment committee.[4]
In 2013, Bone was named one of the top 500 influencers by Campaigns and Elections magazine, which noted that Bone was "one of the top rainmakers in the state," referencing Bone's financial role in politics.[5]
Mayoral candidacy
In May 2015, Bone announced he would run for Nashville mayor. Bone noted his family's long history in Tennessee and stated his view of Nashville's future thusly:[6][2]
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As a city, I don't want to see us pause the prosperity we're currently experiencing. But also, I want to see us do everything we can to expedite that momentum, diversify and think strategically about how we push that momentum so every family, and every neighborhood, and every community, can experience it.[7] |
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Although Bone only garnered 10.5 percent of the August 6, 2015, general election votes, the mayoral victor, Megan Barry, chose Bone to lead her 42-member transition team in late September, 2015. Bone had endorsed Barry in the run-off election in early September.[8][9]
Issues
iVoters videos
The website iVoters.com created a series of video responses from Nashville’s 2015 mayoral candidates. In the videos, each candidate answers two questions and has 60 seconds to respond and may not speak about another candidate or campaign in their answer. The two questions were:
- 1) What is the biggest obstacle facing Nashville today?
- 2) What would you do to make Nashville a better place to live?
Bone's videos are below:
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Elections
2015
The city of Nashville, Tennessee, held nonpartisan elections for mayor and metro council on August 6, 2015. A runoff election took place on September 10, 2015. The filing deadline for candidates who wished to run in this election was May 21, 2015. All 41 metro council seats—including the office of vice mayor—were up for election. In the mayoral race, candidates included Megan Barry, Charles Robert Bone, David Fox, Bill Freeman, Howard Gentry, Jeremy Kane and Linda Eskind Rebrovick. In the general election, Barry and Fox advanced to the runoff election.[10] Barry defeated Fox in the runoff election.[11] Incumbent Karl Dean was term-limited.[12]
| Nashville Mayor Runoff Election, 2015 | |||
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| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
 Megan Barry |
54.8% | 60,519 | |
| David Fox | 45% | 49,694 | |
| Write-in | 0.2% | 241 | |
| Total Votes | 110,454 | ||
| Source: City of Nashville Election Commission, "Official runoff election results," accessed October 2, 2015 | |||
| Nashville Mayor General Election, 2015 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Megan Barry |
23.5% | 24,553 | |
| David Fox |
22.8% | 23,754 | |
| Bill Freeman | 21.4% | 22,308 | |
| Howard Gentry | 11.6% | 12,110 | |
| Charles Robert Bone | 10.5% | 10,962 | |
| Linda Eskind Rebrovick | 5.6% | 5,827 | |
| Jeremy Kane | 4.6% | 4,767 | |
| Write-in | 0.1% | 62 | |
| Total Votes | 93,687 | ||
| Source: City of Nashville Election Commission, "Official general election results," accessed September 15, 2015 | |||
Media
The following were released on the Charles Robert Bone for Mayor YouTube channel in 2015:
See also
- Nashville, Tennessee
- Nashville, Tennessee municipal elections, 2015
- United States municipal elections, 2015
- Barack Obama
- Megan Barry
External links
- Bone McAllester Norton]
- Phoenix Boats
- Southern Steak & Oyster
- Acme Feed & Seed
- Official campaign website
- Charles Robert Bone on Facebook
- Charles Robert Bone on Twitter
- City of Nashville Election Commission - 2015 Candidate Petition List
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Bone McAllester Norton, "Charles Robert Bone," accessed December 8, 2015
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Nashville Business Journal," February 6, 2015
- ↑ LinkedIn, "Charles Robert Bone," accessed December 8, 2015
- ↑ Bloomberg, "Tennessee Angel Fund," accessed December 8, 2015
- ↑ TMC News, "The Influencers 500 (Campaigns & Elections)," January 22, 2013
- ↑ The Tennessean, "Attorney Charles Robert Bone announces run for mayor," May 8, 2014
- ↑ Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ The Tennessean, "Megan Barry picks Charles Robert Bone to lead transition team," September 16, 2015
- ↑ Nashville Post, "Barry transition team to be led by former rival," September 16, 2015
- ↑ City of Nashville Election Commission, "Official general election results," accessed September 15, 2015
- ↑ City of Nashville Election Commission, "Official runoff election results," accessed October 2, 2015
- ↑ City of Nashville, "Davidson County Election Commission," accessed December 4, 2014
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