Rose Mary Drake
Rose Mary Drake (Democratic Party) ran for election to the Tennessee House of Representatives to represent District 39. She lost in the general election on November 5, 2024.
Drake completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. Click here to read the survey answers.
Elections
2024
See also: Tennessee House of Representatives elections, 2024
General election
General election for Tennessee House of Representatives District 39
Incumbent Iris Rudder defeated Rose Mary Drake in the general election for Tennessee House of Representatives District 39 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Iris Rudder (R) | 76.4 | 24,655 | |
 | Rose Mary Drake (D)  | 23.6 | 7,632 | |
| Total votes: 32,287 | |||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for Tennessee House of Representatives District 39
Rose Mary Drake advanced from the Democratic primary for Tennessee House of Representatives District 39 on August 1, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Rose Mary Drake | 100.0 | 1,072 |
| Total votes: 1,072 | |||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for Tennessee House of Representatives District 39
Incumbent Iris Rudder advanced from the Republican primary for Tennessee House of Representatives District 39 on August 1, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Iris Rudder | 100.0 | 3,114 | |
| Total votes: 3,114 | |||
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Endorsements
Ballotpedia did not identify endorsements for Drake in this election.
Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Rose Mary Drake completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2024. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Drake's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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- I believe women should be trusted to make their own reproductive healthcare decisions.
- In a nation and a state where gunshot wounds are the number one cause of death for children, we cannot continue to do nothing about this problem. We need common sense gun safety legislation so that we can begin to find a solution.
- It is estimated that expansion of Medicaid eligibility would result in a 25% reduction in the number of uninsured people in our state. It would also help to provide more financial stability to rural health care hospitals and providers, which benefits everyone in a rural area, no matter how they pay for healthcare. One of the groups that would benefit most are women of child-bearing age who face high maternal/infant mortality rates in Tennessee. We should expand Medicaid in Tennessee for the health of our citizens and also to see some of the tax dollars that we pay into the federal system return to us via Medicaid benefits to our citizens. We are one of only ten states that have failed to expand Medicaid eligibility.
2) I believe that healthcare is a human right.
3) I believe that public funds should be used to fund public education, not private entities.
4) I believe a democracy works best when all voices are given an opportunity to be heard, and when people from diverse political backgrounds work together to find common sense, practical solutions.
5) I believe in civil debate and discussion and respectful listening to opposing points of view.
6) I believe women should be trusted to make their own reproductive healthcare decisions.
2) I spent about five months in 2018 and 2019 out of state caring for my mother, who had brain cancer. After her death, I returned to my home in TN, and a few days later, I I was the victim of an aggravated robbery in the front yard of my home. I know what it is like to feel the terror of having a gun pressed up against my head. I still struggle with some PTSD from this event. As an adult struggling to comprehend this event, I am very concerned about our children and other innocent members of the public being exposed to the reality of our gun culture, where gunshot wounds are the number one cause of death for children, and we all have to live daily with the prospect of having a gun used against us.
2) Public education is threatened by efforts to divert public funds to private entities. Public education is already underfunded and we are losing teachers to other employment outside teaching, and to other states where teachers are paid more appropriately. We are also losing teachers to such things as book inventory requirements and limitations on what they can say in the normal course of getting to know children, and onerous testing requirements.
3) Our restrictions on reproductive healthcare including abortion services will lead to a "brain drain" in that people will choose other states for their education or to settle down. Tennessee is not a safe or appealing place for women of child-bearing age to live.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2024 Elections
External links
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