State Representative, 44th District · Tennessee 2026 General Election

Latoya Holcomb

Democratic

Portland City Council member; minister · Portland

The gist

Supports eliminating the sales tax on essential groceries.
Supports more home construction and help for first-time buyers.
Supports wages that keep pace with living costs.

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Supports eliminating the sales tax on essential groceries.
Elect Latoya Holcomb | State Representative · District 44
Campaign website · Latoya Holcomb for State Representative · electlatoyaholcomb.com
“Latoya supports eliminating the sales tax on essential grocery items so families can keep more of what they earn.”
Supports more home construction and help for first-time buyers.
Elect Latoya Holcomb | State Representative · District 44
Campaign website · Latoya Holcomb for State Representative · electlatoyaholcomb.com
“We need to encourage construction of more homes, support first-time buyers”
Supports wages that keep pace with living costs.
Elect Latoya Holcomb | State Representative · District 44
Campaign website · Latoya Holcomb for State Representative · electlatoyaholcomb.com
“Wages must keep pace with the real cost of living”

William Lamberth

RepublicanIncumbent

Attorney · Portland

The gist

Supports stricter penalties for the most heinous crimes.
Supports rehabilitation programs for offenders seeking to reform.
Supports low taxes and small government.
Sponsored law expanding education freedom scholarships to 35,000.In office
Sponsored law creating a state immigration enforcement division.In office
Sponsored law letting magistrates consider hearsay in bail decisions.In office

In office = from the candidate's own official statements or legislation as an officeholder, not their campaign.

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Supports stricter penalties for the most heinous crimes.
William Lamberth for State Representative District 44
Campaign website · Committee to Elect William Lamberth · votelamberth.com
“I have championed legislation to impose stricter penalties for those who commit the most heinous of crimes”
Supports rehabilitation programs for offenders seeking to reform.
William Lamberth for State Representative District 44
Campaign website · Committee to Elect William Lamberth · votelamberth.com
“fully supporting the broad utilization of rehabilitation programs for those who sincerely seek to reform their lives”
Supports low taxes and small government.
William Lamberth for State Representative District 44
Campaign website · Committee to Elect William Lamberth · votelamberth.com
“I believe in low taxes, small government, and traditional family values.”
Sponsored law expanding education freedom scholarships to 35,000.
Representative William Lamberth: bills sponsored in the 114th General Assembly
Government record · Tennessee General Assembly · wapp.capitol.tn.gov
“increasing, from 25,000 to 35,000, the maximum number of education freedom scholarships that may be awarded to eligible students”
Sponsored law creating a state immigration enforcement division.
Representative William Lamberth: bills sponsored in the 114th General Assembly
Government record · Tennessee General Assembly · wapp.capitol.tn.gov
“creates within the department of safety the centralized immigration enforcement division”
Sponsored law letting magistrates consider hearsay in bail decisions.
Representative William Lamberth: bills sponsored in the 114th General Assembly
Government record · Tennessee General Assembly · wapp.capitol.tn.gov
“allows a magistrate to consider hearsay evidence when determining whether a defendant should be released on bail”