Martin Holsinger
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Martin Holsinger was a 2015 candidate for an at-large seat on the Nashville Metro Council in Tennessee. The general election took place on August 6, 2015.
In 2014, Holsinger was a Green candidate for District 54 of the Tennessee House of Representatives.[1]
Biography
After graduating from Fairmont West High School in Kettering, Ohio, Holsinger studied social psychology at Goddard College in Vermont, leaving to become one of the founding members of "The Farm" in Tennessee. When the farm privatized, Holsinger took on an orchard as a business and became the first organic apple grower in Tennessee, supplying grocery stores from 1983 to 1989. He has also worked in the mental health field.[2]
Holsinger returned to Goddard College in 1990 to complete his B.A. in an off-campus program.[3]
Campaign themes
2015
In an interview with Vote411.org, Holsinger responded to questions about the following campaign themes:[3]
Transportation
- Excerpt: "The first thing we need to recognize is that the automobile has complicated the public transportation system by enabling us to have widely scattered destinations and points of origin, even though enough of us end up on the same road at the same time to cause severe traffic congestion. I think we need to go to the root of this problem by creating fully walkable neighborhoods, in which many if not most people can walk to work, school, shopping, and leisure activities, thus reducing the amount of traffic on the roads."
Homelessness
- Excerpt: "Salt Lake City, Utah, has instituted a very successful program, the basics of which are that they find, and subsidize, homes for the homeless first, and then treat whatever problems the formerly homeless have, rather than making them jump through a bunch of hoops to get and keep housing. They have found that, in many cases, simply the security of having a place that they are not going to be kicked out of (short of gross malfeasance) solves a lot of the problems formerly homeless people have."
A new era
- Excerpt: "[The biggest problem facing Nashville that receives little focus but needs much attention] is the fact that the 21st century, contrary to what everybody seems to expect, is not going to be anything like the 20th. We need to be dealing with the end of the automobile age, the end of long-distance supply routes for our everyday needs, and an influx of climate refugees from the Southwest and our country's coasts, as well as more refugees from south of the border. These people are not going to have the resources to move into high-end neighborhoods, unless it's to stay with people they know."
Affordable housing
- Excerpt: "Gentrification is, unfortunately, a natural product of our economic system, in which people get ahead by buying cheap and selling high. We can't change that all by ourselves, but there are things we can do. We can increase the amount of money in The Barnes Fund by a dedicated 0.1% tax on all real estate transactions, then use some of this money to create urban land trusts in low-income areas, so that residents own not only their homes, but their neighborhoods, making it harder for developers to divide and conquer. Our emphasis should be on helping people into ownership, and the responsibility that comes with ownership. There are other ways to create affordable housing, as well, but I'm running out of space here!"
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 race for five open at-large seats, candidates included Buddy Baker, Jody Ball, Karen Bennett, Al Carota, Erin Coleman, John Cooper, Elizabeth Dachowski, Adam Dread, Robert Duvall, Leroy Johnny Ellis, Erica Gilmore, Ronnie Greer, Sr., Frank Harrison, Jason Holleman, Martin Holsinger, Phillip Joseph Hostettler, Jr., Walter Hunt, Sharon W Hurt, Ken Jakes, James Keeton, John Lasiter, Don Majors, Lonnell Matthews, Jr., Bob Mendes, Sandra Moore and Jim Shulman. Bennett, Coleman, Cooper, Duvall, Gilmore, Holleman, Hurt, Matthews, Mendes and Shulman advanced to the runoff election.[4] The winners in the runoff election were Cooper, Gilmore, Mendes, Hurt and Shulman.[5] All five at-large incumbents were term-limited.[6]
| Nashville City Council At-large Runoff Election, 2015 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
 John Cooper |
14.5% | 56,802 | |
| Erica Gilmore |
12.8% | 49,996 | |
| Bob Mendes |
10.5% | 41,160 | |
| Sharon W Hurt |
9.8% | 38,317 | |
| Jim Shulman |
9.6% | 37,676 | |
| Erin Coleman | 8.9% | 34,877 | |
| Karen Bennett | 8.5% | 33,052 | |
| Lonnell Matthews, Jr. | 8.4% | 32,807 | |
| Robert Duvall | 8.2% | 31,925 | |
| Jason Holleman | 8.1% | 31,763 | |
| Write-in | 0.5% | 2,122 | |
| Total Votes | 223,951 | ||
| Source: City of Nashville Election Commission, "Official runoff election results," accessed October 2, 2015 | |||
| Nashville City Council At-large General Election, 2015 | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
| Erica Gilmore |
9.6% | 36,675 | |
| John Cooper |
9.2% | 35,080 | |
| Bob Mendes |
6.5% | 24,581 | |
| Jim Shulman |
5.7% | 21,869 | |
| Sharon W Hurt |
5.3% | 20,086 | |
| Robert Duvall |
5% | 18,877 | |
| Lonnell Matthews, Jr. |
4.7% | 18,064 | |
| Karen Bennett |
4.6% | 17,390 | |
| Jason Holleman |
4.4% | 16,612 | |
| Erin Coleman |
4.3% | 16,557 | |
| Don Majors | 4.3% | 16,214 | |
| Adam Dread | 4.2% | 16,146 | |
| Walter Hunt | 4.2% | 16,090 | |
| Sandra Moore | 3.9% | 14,991 | |
| Buddy Baker | 3.3% | 12,695 | |
| Ronnie Greer, Sr. | 3.3% | 12,454 | |
| Ken Jakes | 3.1% | 11,922 | |
| Frank Harrison | 2.5% | 9,659 | |
| John Lasiter | 2.4% | 9,151 | |
| Elizabeth Dachowski | 2.2% | 8,525 | |
| Phillip Joseph Hostettler, Jr. | 2% | 7,738 | |
| Jody Ball | 1.5% | 5,709 | |
| James Keeton | 1.1% | 4,026 | |
| Leroy Johnny Ellis | 1% | 3,880 | |
| Martin Holsinger | 0.6% | 2,245 | |
| Al Carota | 0.6% | 2,097 | |
| Write-in | 0.4% | 1,374 | |
| Total Votes | 138,291 | ||
| Source: City of Nashville Election Commission, "Official general election results," accessed September 15, 2015 | |||
2014
Elections for 99 seats in the Tennessee House of Representatives took place in 2014. A primary election took place on August 7, 2014. The general election was held on November 4, 2014. The signature filing deadline for candidates wishing to run in this election was April 3, 2014. Incumbent Brenda Gilmore was unopposed in the Democratic primary. Martin Holsinger ran as a Green candidate. Gilmore defeated Holsinger in the general election.[7][1]
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Democratic | Brenda Gilmore Incumbent |
90.7% | 11,761 | |
| Green | Martin Holsinger | 9.3% | 1,206 | |
| Total Votes | 12,967 | |||
Recent news
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See also
- Nashville, Tennessee
- Nashville, Tennessee municipal elections, 2015
- United States municipal elections, 2015
- Tennessee General Assembly
- Tennessee House of Representatives District 55
- Tennessee House of Representatives
- Tennessee House of Representatives elections, 2014
External links
- Official campaign website
- Deep Green Perspective (Blog)
- City of Nashville Election Commission - 2015 Candidate Petition List
Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Tennessee Secretary of State, "Petitions Filed for State Senate and State House of Representatives," accessed April 5, 2014
- ↑ Ballotpedia staff, "Biography submitted by candidate," June 20, 2014
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Vote411.org, "Issues," accessed July 24, 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
- ↑ Tennessee Secretary of State, "August 7, 2014 Election Results," accessed September 11, 2014
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