ELECTION NIGHT ADDRESS BY BUCK DOZIER
AUGUST 2, 2007
"THROUGHOUT MY LIFE I'VE ALWAYS ADHERED TO THE PRINCIPLE THAT WE SHOULD DO OUR BEST…WE SHOULD GIVE IT OUR ALL…AND ALONG THE WAY WE SHOULD RESPECT THOSE WE COME IN CONTACT WITH.
I CAN SAY WITHOUT A DOUBT THAT WE PUT THAT PRINCIPLE TO THE TEST IN THIS CAMPAIGN. WE DID OUR BEST. WE GAVE IT OUR ALL. AND WE SHOWED RESPECT TO THOSE WE CAME IN CONTACT WITH ALONG THE WAY.
TO MY FELLOW MAYORAL CANDIDATES – HOWARD, BOB, KARL, DAVID AND KENNETH…IT'S BEEN AN HONOR TO STAND WITH YOU BEFORE THE PEOPLE OF OUR CITY TO DEBATE AND DISCUSS WHAT WE EACH BROUGHT TO THIS RACE. I APPRECIATE YOUR GRACIOUSNESS IN BATTLE AND UNDER FIRE. THE EXPERIENCE AND YOUR FRIENDSHIP IS SOMETHING I WILL ALWAYS CHERISH.
TO THE HUNDREDS OF DEDICATED VOLUNTEERS WHO POURED YOUR HEARTS AND SOULS INTO KNOCKING ON DOORS, ANSWERING AND MAKING PHONE CALLS, STUFFING ENVELOPES AND WORKING THE POLLS…I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU.
THANK YOU FOR CARING SO MUCH ABOUT OUR CAMPAIGN.
THANK YOU FOR CARING SO MUCH ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY.
THANK YOU FOR CARING SO MUCH ABOUT WANTING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
TO MY FELLOW ELECTED OFFICIALS – MY METRO COUNCIL COLLEAGUES AND OTHER METRO LEADERS…IT'S BEEN AN HONOR AND A PRIVILEGE TO SERVE ALONGSIDE YOU…WE MIGHT NOT HAVE ALWAYS AGREED ON EVERY ISSUE, BUT WE HAVE PROVEN TIME AND AGAIN THAT WHEN WE PUT ASIDE POLITICAL DIFFERENCES AND PERSONAL AGENDAS FOR THE COMMON GOOD, GREAT THINGS CAN HAPPEN FOR OUR CITY.
TO MY FAMILY WHO HAS STOOD BY MY SIDE FOR SO MANY YEARS…ENCOURAGING ME, TOLERATING ME, AND LOVING ME WITH ALL MY FAULTS…I TOO WANT TO SAY THANK YOU AND THAT I LOVE YOU.
I'M NOT CERTAIN WHAT LIES AHEAD FOR ME IN THE NEXT PHASE OF MY LIFE…FRANKLY THE UNKNOWN IS WHAT CAN MAKE LIFE SO RICH AND REWARDING.
BUT I WILL DO WHAT I HAVE ALWAYS DONE WHEN ONE LIFE CHAPTER ENDS….I WILL PUT MY TRUST IN GOD TO LET HIS WILL BE DONE AS THE NEXT LIFE CHAPTER UNFOLDS.
GOOD NIGHT AND GOD BLESS EACH OF YOU."
From Bloggers for Buck, God Bless you as well.
Showing posts with label buck dozier for mayor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label buck dozier for mayor. Show all posts
Friday, August 3, 2007
Didn't make the vote.
I am sorry to say that Buck Dozier didn't get enough votes to win the race. Money usually rules and Clement and Dean have enough of it. It doesn't matter that you are endorsed by police and firefighters and why? Because people like you. You don't get those types of endorsements. Not too many people want to stick their neck out endorsing people because then the candidate comes out of the closet with something and endorsers are publicly embarrassed. Not so with Dozier, a straight up man with no skeletons in is closet.
We will keep up blogging for Buck just in case he wants to run again. We will show you without a doubt of his good works and things he will do as a civilian in the coming years.
We will keep up blogging for Buck just in case he wants to run again. We will show you without a doubt of his good works and things he will do as a civilian in the coming years.
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Press Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, August 2, 2007
DOZIER PLEDGES SUPPORT FOR EFFORTS TO SECURE LOCAL OWNERSHIP OF THE PREDATORS; URGES FELLOW NASHVILLIANS TO KEEP BUYING SEASON TICKETS
DOZIER PLEDGES SUPPORT FOR EFFORTS TO SECURE LOCAL OWNERSHIP OF THE PREDATORS; URGES FELLOW NASHVILLIANS TO KEEP BUYING SEASON TICKETS
Buck Dozier, candidate for Mayor and a long-time Predator season ticket holder, today pledged to support efforts by the local group seeking to secure ownership of the team and he urged fellow Nashvillians to show their support by securing season tickets. “Once again we find ourselves in the national spotlight as the NHL and sports fans everywhere watch closely the efforts underway to keep the Predators in Nashville,” said Dozier.
“I know the local group seeking ownership of the team will likely want to make some changes to the current lease arrangement on the facility. As our next Mayor, I will pledge to work with the local owners in crafting an arrangement that is a benefit to both the team and to our city.”
Dozier added that “We must show a united front behind the efforts of local business leaders to secure local ownership of the team, and we must step up the push to sell tickets locally.” Dozier, a season ticket holder and avid hockey fan since the Predators came to Nashville, has been an outspoken advocate for keeping the Predators in Nashville.
Dozier has said repeatedly in the course of the current Mayor’s race that he would use the Mayor’s office as a bully pulpit to champion efforts to sell tickets to Predator games, and would show strong support when needed of local efforts to secure ownership of the team.
“The Predators are a Nashville team and we want them to stay,” said Dozier.
Nashville has benefited greatly from its prominence as a city with two professional sports teams, he said.
“Having NHL and NFL teams here have helped to enhance Nashville’s profile as an entertainment and cultural center, which has supported our efforts at attracting tourists,” said Dozier.
“More tourists mean more sales tax revenue is collected to fund vital city services while helping hold the line on local property taxes.”
To learn about Buck Dozier go to his Web site at:
Wednesday, June 6, 2007
The issues and plans
Our blog is going to compile some of the issues that Buck Dozier has commented on.
Calls On The August 2007 Local Elections To Be A Referendum On Education
Nashville Mayoral candidate Buck Dozier today announced a comprehensive education agenda focused on making Nashville “The Athens Of Education In America.” Dozier called on other candidates running for office to join him in an open, public dialogue to
make education “a central issue” in the August 2007 elections.
“More than any other local issue we face, the education of our children has the broadest impact on families, on neighborhoods, on public safety, on our economy and on our future,” said Dozier. “That’s why I intend to use my political capital and campaign bully pulpit over the next nine months to turn this local election into what should be a referendum on education. I would encourage all candidates on the ballot to commit to
engaging in a public dialogue on ways to improve our system.”
Dozier said all candidates running next year will declare that they are “pro-education.”
He added that “what will distinguish one from the other will be what each candidate really means when they say they are pro-education.”
“I want this campaign cycle to be remembered not for clever slogans or slick TV ads, but as the moment when we as a community – and we as candidates for public office –
agreed to begin a real dialogue on education, with no sacred cows and no ideas too smallor too big to consider,” Dozier said.
Dozier said that Nashville in the 1800s was dubbed the Athens of the South because “we were home to progressive thinkers, home to numerous institutions of higher learning, and because, like ancient Greece, thinking and learning were held in high regard.”
“I advocate bringing the Athens theme back and focusing it on education,” Dozier said.
“We have the resources and we have the great thinkers. It’s time.”
Dozier said his education agenda for Nashville – designed to help Metro reach the goal of being “The Athens Of Education In America” – includes:
• More of an education activist’s role for the Mayor and the Mayor’s Office;
• Incorporating best practices throughout our education system;
• Creating more learning environment options for children;
• Ensuring safer learning environments for students and children;
• Forging stronger, more defined partnerships among resources in our community to support public education;
• Encouraging more outside-the-box thinking when it comes to instructional activities in learning environments;
• Working to secure a fairer share of federal and state funds to support public education locally; and
• Issuing an unprecedented challenge to all citizens.
http://buckdozier.blogspot.com
“The unprecedented challenge to all citizens,” Dozier explained, “is for all of us to work toward raising a $1 billion endowment over the next 10 years to support the introduction of innovative instructional activities in our public schools.” Dozier said a $1 billion endowment will generate an estimated $75 million each year in perpetuity for education, without ever touching the principal balance of the endowment.
“If we all agree that Nashville should be ‘The Athens Of Education In America,’ then each of us will have to think big and think outside the box on multiple fronts,” Dozier said.
Dozier said his proposed agenda “is an effort to take bold steps to bring other resources to the table, to seek out best practices wherever they are, and to look beyond our own inner circle for new ideas and a new way of teaching our children.”
To read Dozier’s full address on education, go to his campaign Web site at
www.dozierformayor.com.
Calls On The August 2007 Local Elections To Be A Referendum On Education
Nashville Mayoral candidate Buck Dozier today announced a comprehensive education agenda focused on making Nashville “The Athens Of Education In America.” Dozier called on other candidates running for office to join him in an open, public dialogue to
make education “a central issue” in the August 2007 elections.
“More than any other local issue we face, the education of our children has the broadest impact on families, on neighborhoods, on public safety, on our economy and on our future,” said Dozier. “That’s why I intend to use my political capital and campaign bully pulpit over the next nine months to turn this local election into what should be a referendum on education. I would encourage all candidates on the ballot to commit to
engaging in a public dialogue on ways to improve our system.”
Dozier said all candidates running next year will declare that they are “pro-education.”
He added that “what will distinguish one from the other will be what each candidate really means when they say they are pro-education.”
“I want this campaign cycle to be remembered not for clever slogans or slick TV ads, but as the moment when we as a community – and we as candidates for public office –
agreed to begin a real dialogue on education, with no sacred cows and no ideas too smallor too big to consider,” Dozier said.
Dozier said that Nashville in the 1800s was dubbed the Athens of the South because “we were home to progressive thinkers, home to numerous institutions of higher learning, and because, like ancient Greece, thinking and learning were held in high regard.”
“I advocate bringing the Athens theme back and focusing it on education,” Dozier said.
“We have the resources and we have the great thinkers. It’s time.”
Dozier said his education agenda for Nashville – designed to help Metro reach the goal of being “The Athens Of Education In America” – includes:
• More of an education activist’s role for the Mayor and the Mayor’s Office;
• Incorporating best practices throughout our education system;
• Creating more learning environment options for children;
• Ensuring safer learning environments for students and children;
• Forging stronger, more defined partnerships among resources in our community to support public education;
• Encouraging more outside-the-box thinking when it comes to instructional activities in learning environments;
• Working to secure a fairer share of federal and state funds to support public education locally; and
• Issuing an unprecedented challenge to all citizens.
http://buckdozier.blogspot.com
“The unprecedented challenge to all citizens,” Dozier explained, “is for all of us to work toward raising a $1 billion endowment over the next 10 years to support the introduction of innovative instructional activities in our public schools.” Dozier said a $1 billion endowment will generate an estimated $75 million each year in perpetuity for education, without ever touching the principal balance of the endowment.
“If we all agree that Nashville should be ‘The Athens Of Education In America,’ then each of us will have to think big and think outside the box on multiple fronts,” Dozier said.
Dozier said his proposed agenda “is an effort to take bold steps to bring other resources to the table, to seek out best practices wherever they are, and to look beyond our own inner circle for new ideas and a new way of teaching our children.”
To read Dozier’s full address on education, go to his campaign Web site at
www.dozierformayor.com.
Friday, May 11, 2007
Too Morally Rigid
The Nashville Scene had a story of who Adam Dread is supporting for mayor and here is what he said about Buck Dozier.
Yet when it comes to Decision ’07, Adam Dread, who’s introduced himself as a “man of leisure” for the better part of a decade, has a weakness for fellow at-large Metro Council member Buck Dozier, a church of Christ patrician who counts reading theological literature among his favorite pastimes.
A match made in heaven? Probably not. But Dread says it was born out of loyalty. “When I was first running for office, Buck Dozier was the fire chief in 1999,” Dread recalls. “Buck took two hours, took more time than any other department head, to answer questions. I will never forget that.”
Dread says his support of Dozier—apparently Dozier’s first public commitment from a fellow council member to date—isn’t as odd as it might seem. They both point to business and public safety as key issues. “Buck really gets it when it comes to tourism,” Dread says.
Also in the Scene on Buck Dozier that he may be "too morally rigid" for Nashville's next mayor.
Too morally rigid? If that's the worst that's being said, the man's got my vote.
Yet when it comes to Decision ’07, Adam Dread, who’s introduced himself as a “man of leisure” for the better part of a decade, has a weakness for fellow at-large Metro Council member Buck Dozier, a church of Christ patrician who counts reading theological literature among his favorite pastimes.
A match made in heaven? Probably not. But Dread says it was born out of loyalty. “When I was first running for office, Buck Dozier was the fire chief in 1999,” Dread recalls. “Buck took two hours, took more time than any other department head, to answer questions. I will never forget that.”
Dread says his support of Dozier—apparently Dozier’s first public commitment from a fellow council member to date—isn’t as odd as it might seem. They both point to business and public safety as key issues. “Buck really gets it when it comes to tourism,” Dread says.
Also in the Scene on Buck Dozier that he may be "too morally rigid" for Nashville's next mayor.
Too morally rigid? If that's the worst that's being said, the man's got my vote.
Tuesday, May 8, 2007
Let's give them something to talk about!
Buck's on my space however there seems to be some concern over why he hasn't let anyone see how many friends he has.
I am not sure why this matters and has anything to do with this election.
I am more concerned over what's going on with education "in which my space has become ridiculed and the subject of controversy concerning students in high school which was reported in the Chattanooga Free Press this year," and how we are going to make Nashville the safest city.
Focus!!!
I am not sure why this matters and has anything to do with this election.
I am more concerned over what's going on with education "in which my space has become ridiculed and the subject of controversy concerning students in high school which was reported in the Chattanooga Free Press this year," and how we are going to make Nashville the safest city.
Focus!!!
Monday, April 30, 2007
Introducing Mayor Candidate Buck Dozier of Nashville, TN
Norman “Buck” Dozier, Jr.
Most Nashvillians know Buck Dozier as the former Chief of the Metro Nashville Fire Department, where he served with distinction for 7 years. Under Chief Dozier’s leadership, the department was the first major metropolitan area fire department to achieve national accreditation.
Councilman Dozier is serving his third term as Councilman-At-Large. He is presently a Vice-President with Prime Mortgage.
His public service credentials extend far beyond holding public office. Under former Mayor Phil Bredesen, he served as special assistant for legislative affairs. Significant to his own growth and development, Councilman Dozier’s early career included teaching and coaching at David Lipscomb High School. From there, he went on to serve as the Family Life and Youth Minister at Madison Church of Christ for 14 years.
Councilman Dozier’s civic contributions are too numerous to mention in entirety. He has served on the Y-Cap Advisory Board, the Fellowship of Christian Athlete’s Board of Directors, the Salvation Army Advisory Board, while also serving as President of the Tennessee Christian Medical Center Advisory Board. Dozier was part of the Leadership Nashville class of 1995 and then was elected to serve as the group’s Alumni Association President.
The respect that he has earned from his fellow council members is embodied in his election as Pro-Tem of the Metro Council this last fiscal year. His experience in the field of public safety and emergency preparedness make him a perfect choice as this year’s Public Safety Chairman.
Buck attended Cohn High School and went on to get his B.S. Degree from Lipscomb University. He is married to Sandra Anderson of Nashville. They have two children, Sean and Shannon, who have begun their own families. Councilman Dozier is an elder at the Madison Church of Christ.
At a glance:
Occupation
Vice President, Prime Mortgage
Education
B.S. degree, David Lipscomb University
Cohn High School
Family
Wife, Sandra
One son and one daughter
Two grandchildren
Organizations
President of Nashville Fire Buffs
Member of Tennessee Fire Chiefs Association
Advisory board of the Tennessee Christian Medical Center
Most Nashvillians know Buck Dozier as the former Chief of the Metro Nashville Fire Department, where he served with distinction for 7 years. Under Chief Dozier’s leadership, the department was the first major metropolitan area fire department to achieve national accreditation.
Councilman Dozier is serving his third term as Councilman-At-Large. He is presently a Vice-President with Prime Mortgage.
His public service credentials extend far beyond holding public office. Under former Mayor Phil Bredesen, he served as special assistant for legislative affairs. Significant to his own growth and development, Councilman Dozier’s early career included teaching and coaching at David Lipscomb High School. From there, he went on to serve as the Family Life and Youth Minister at Madison Church of Christ for 14 years.
Councilman Dozier’s civic contributions are too numerous to mention in entirety. He has served on the Y-Cap Advisory Board, the Fellowship of Christian Athlete’s Board of Directors, the Salvation Army Advisory Board, while also serving as President of the Tennessee Christian Medical Center Advisory Board. Dozier was part of the Leadership Nashville class of 1995 and then was elected to serve as the group’s Alumni Association President.
The respect that he has earned from his fellow council members is embodied in his election as Pro-Tem of the Metro Council this last fiscal year. His experience in the field of public safety and emergency preparedness make him a perfect choice as this year’s Public Safety Chairman.
Buck attended Cohn High School and went on to get his B.S. Degree from Lipscomb University. He is married to Sandra Anderson of Nashville. They have two children, Sean and Shannon, who have begun their own families. Councilman Dozier is an elder at the Madison Church of Christ.
At a glance:
Occupation
Vice President, Prime Mortgage
Education
B.S. degree, David Lipscomb University
Cohn High School
Family
Wife, Sandra
One son and one daughter
Two grandchildren
Organizations
President of Nashville Fire Buffs
Member of Tennessee Fire Chiefs Association
Advisory board of the Tennessee Christian Medical Center
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