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State Representative, 68th District

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1
Term
2 years
Candidates
2
Election
Nov 3, 2026

What this office does: A state representative votes on Tennessee laws and the state budget in the Tennessee House of Representatives.

Taxes & budget

  • Garfield ScottDemocratic

    • Supports eliminating Tennessee's grocery tax
  • Aron MaberryRepublican

    • Supports limiting local property-tax growth without voter approval

Public safety

  • Garfield ScottDemocratic

    • Supports more mental-health and addiction services
  • Aron MaberryRepublican

    • Opposes red flag gun laws
    • Sponsored PTSD workers' comp presumption for first respondersIn office

Education

  • Garfield ScottDemocratic

    • Opposes using public education money for private-school vouchers
  • Aron MaberryRepublican

    • Supports Education Freedom Scholarships and wider school choice

Housing

  • Garfield ScottDemocratic

    • Supports limiting institutional investors buying single-family homes
  • Aron MaberryRepublican

    No documented position found.

Roads & infrastructure

  • Garfield ScottDemocratic

    • Supports taxing legal cannabis to help fund roads
  • Aron MaberryRepublican

    • Pledges to keep pressing TDOT on Montgomery County roads

Health & human services

  • Garfield ScottDemocratic

    • Supports expanding Medicaid in Tennessee
  • Aron MaberryRepublican

    • Supports reforming Tennessee's certificate-of-need laws

Challengers are listed first and incumbents last; otherwise candidates appear in ballot order. The Gist does not rank, rate or endorse candidates. Only positions backed by a cited source are shown; 6 issues covered in this race.