Larry Crim for U.S. Senate

Larry Crim United States Senate (TN) 2014 is a Fifth (5th) Generation Tennessean. 
Born Nashville, TN.   Graduated East Nashville High School.

* B.A. in Arts & Sciences "High Honors". The University of Tennessee.  Major Psychology. Minor Political Science. 
* M.P.A. Master of Public Administration. The University of Tennessee & Tennessee State University.
* Master of Arts. Middle Tennessee State University.   Major: Psychology.  
* Practicum in Psychology performed at Vanderbilt University.

*   Executive Chair, Christian Counseling Centers of America, Inc.  - A Non Profit, Faith Based Initiative 
delivering professionally qualified, spiritually based and affordable counseling through churches. 
A Free Disaster Relief Counseling resource for victims of natural or unnatural disasters.

*  Chairman - Democrats United For Tennessee - "Expanding Our Horizons...Bringing Tennesseans Together."  Reaching out on a bipartisan basis to make a connection with and address the needs of all Tennesseans. 
"Making a Connection means going in a Tennessee Direction." For more information go to:   https://www.facebook.com/DemsUnitedTN

*  Chairman Democrats for Equal Educational Opportunity (DEEO) for insuring equality in public educational funding, facilities, personnel and student financial assistance so that all people may have an equal opportunity to pursue and obtain a quality public education including Higher Education & Vocational Training.

*   National Committee Representative - Democrats United For America. 

*   Centrist Democratic Leadership Council (CDLC) Chmn - Protecting, preserving and enhancing essential government services for all citizens and extending the outreach of the democratic party to include, involve, and address the priorities and concerns of all the people.  

Among public policies favored by CDLC are: Protecting your Social Security trust funds by assuring that government holds them in trust, protects them from being borrowed against and wisely manages the social security trust fund to assure that your benefits accrued from a lifetime of contributions are payable and not cut.  Enhancing resources for Public Education from Pre-K through 12 and College or Vocational Training to assure each student a quality education for achieving their personal and professional goals as well as national objectives of a better educated citizenry.
Equal Educational opportunity for Higher Education and Financing without long term student loan debt;
Funding Essentials First: (FEF) Law Enforcement & Emergency Personnel; National Defense; Disaster Relief; Affordable Health Care Insurance; National highways and infrastructure repair; Eliminating Tax Dodges currently in our corporate tax code like the Foreign Investment Tax Credit in order to bring back jobs and funds and fair tax revenues to America; Seeking Sponsorship of A National Bill providing Tax Incentives and Credits for Employers who
provide paid sick leave and parental leave for their employees to establish more secure and healthy families.
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National legislation proposed by Larry Crim for United States Senate includes:

 **The Equal Educational Funding Act (EEFA)

An act to assure equal opportunity in higher educational funding
 
(Memphis, TN...Nashville, TN) Larry Crim, U.S. Senate candidate from Tennessee, an alumnus of           The University of Tennessee and Tennessee State University (TSU), both land grant colleges,     has proposed the “Equal Educational Funding Act” (EEFA) requiring all states receiving federal education dollars to follow an “equal educational financial disbursement formula”.

 
Larry Crim said the proposed EEFA Act is to “assure equality in higher education funding for public colleges.” The Act is designed to remedy financial educational inequities, “which will help all students
and colleges be more competitive” Crim said.

                         The EEFA proposed by Larry Crim for U.S. Senate has been endorsed by
               Tennessee Legislators and public servants.

           State Senator Reginald Tate of Memphis, Shelby County TN said:

            “The Equal Educational Funding Act proposed by Larry Crim for United States Senate from Tennessee
          will insure that the competition amongst public colleges for federal and state resources proceeds in
          every state, including Tennessee, in an equitable manner.  The Act will also give state legislators the impetus to
             allocate the financial resources we receive from the federal government and our state matching dollars for public colleges in a   
             reasonable and fair way. I wholeheartedly endorse the fundamental principles of this proposed Act offered
             by Mr. Crim."  - - State Senator Reginald Tate of Memphis, TN.

             State Rep. Barbara Cooper of Memphis indicated her support for the purposes of equal   
          educational funding included in the proposed federal legislation (EEFA) of Larry Crim for
          U.S. Senate indicating that:

            "The Equal Educational Funding Act (EEFA) proposed by Larry Crim as a United States Senate candidate
             builds on the history of creating and sustaining colleges for a diverse population in Tennessee and America".

             Reverend Enoch Fuzz, pastor of Corinthian Missionary Baptist Church (Nashville) said:

            “Mr. Crim's proposed legislation will help achieve equality in funding public higher education which
          benefits all Tennesseans and Americans".

Larry Crim holds a B.A. with "High Honors" (Major Psychology; Minor Political Science) from The University of Tennessee.
Master of Public Administration (M.P.A) from The University of Tennessee & Tennessee State University (TSU).
Master of Arts (M.A.) Major:  Psychology.  Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU).

Mr. Crim has a firm foundation in higher education related to public service and a solid commitment to assuring equal educational
opportunities in higher education for all colleges and students through appropriate funding and disbursement formulas.
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Social Security Protection Act (SSPA)  -   

An Act to assure social security funds are exclusively held in trust for and managed to
assure solvency and growth of the social security trust fund so benefits earned by citizens are timely paid and annual fixed rates of increase with an inflation adjustment become law in order to promote and secure the good faith and credit of our American government toward our social security contributors and recipients.

Larry Crim for U.S. Senate 2014 has proposed a Social Security Protection Act (SSPA) to
protect the social security funds of Americans from being borrowed against, raided to pay for
other programs, or used to pay down the nation's debt.  Mr. Crim also wants the SSPA to insure that
social security contributions on deposit with the federal government are managed like the valuable
investments they are, to make sure the social security trust fund remains solvent and that benefits
may be increased according to reasonable cost of living adjustments at a minimum fixed rate with flexibility for inflation.   "The money Americans have paid into the social security system is their
money" says Crim "which has resulted in benefits accrued to and for them over their lifetime."
"Social Security funds of Americans and Tennesseans were not intended as an additional
source of revenue for the government, but as a foundation for our citizen's retirement"
said Larry Crim (D) United States Senate.

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Emergency Personnel Salary Adjustment Act (EPSAA)-

     An Act providing salary increases for emergency services personnel including Law Enforcement, EMT, & Firefighters out of existing federal dollars to states.

Tennessee's Democrat for United States Senate in 2014, Larry Crim, has proposed the EPSAA to require a portion of the federal money states receive for emergency preparedness, response, and related agencies to be allocated for salary increases  for America's first responders. 

The EPSAA would include salary increases for state and local law enforcement officers,
emergency medical personnel, and firefighters. 

"State and Local Law enforcement, firefighters, medical emergency personnel, and other emergency staff are our nation's first responders at the scene of crimes, accidents, injury, health emergencies, and natural or unnatural disasters" said Larry Crim (D) U.S. Senate from Tennessee.  "Americans   and Tennesseans rely so much on these first repsonders" said Crim. "It is time to recognize more completely the vital and valuable role they each play through appropriate salary increases out
of the federal funds received by states"  Crim continued.

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National Road Improvement & Jobs Act (NRIJA) -

An Act to repair, expand, and improve America's national highways and interstate systems as an essential government service and JOBS plan. 

The NRIJA goals are to bring America's national roadway systems up to date while creating millions
of essential government service and private sector support jobs. The NRIJA purposes are to catch up with the long overdue need to improve, expand, widen, and extend our national highways and interstate systems to accommodate the ever increasing traffic and transportation demands for citizen, commercial, emergency, and military purposes.  The NRIJA proposed by Larry Crim (D) U.S. Senate 2014 would create millions of public and private sector jobs to perform the needed repairs, improvements, and expansions to our federal highways.

The NRIJA by CRIM (D) for United States Senate improves America's highways to:
 
A) Meet the national security purposes of federal military personnel and equipment transport.
B) Handle increased traffic movement of citizens, commercial, and emergency personnel for
everyday driver and commercial traffic and during natural and unnatural disasters.
C) Increase traffic flow and reduced traffic congestion.
D) Enhance traffic safety.
E) Reduce citizen driver commute times.
F) Lower commercial transportation times and costs.
G) Produce consumer savings on goods delivered by freight.
H) Lower fuel consumption.
I)  Increase oil and gas supply.
J)  Reduced gas demand.
K) Lower fuel prices.
L) Achieve reduced vehicle emissions.
M) Promote energy conservation.
N) Reduce America's dependence on foreign oil and energy resources.
O) Protect the environment in America.

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Veterans Benefits Assurance Act (VBAA) -

An Act to assure that Veterans and their Families, to whom our country is deeply indebted, are receiving their guaranteed benefits including career transition, housing and homeowner financing assistance, higher educational funding, medical, dental, mental health and counseling and any long term care support for veterans and their caregivers. 

Larry Crim for United States Senate from Tennessee has proposed the VBAA to assure that Veterans and their Families to whom our country is deeply indebted are receiving the benefits to which they are entitled.

"A grateful nation, in remembering the service, sacrifice, and valor of our American Veterans" said Crim "must also recall our obligations to veterans and their families and our country's debt to them" added Larry Crim for United States Senate from Tennessee. 

"The Veterans Benefit Assurance Act requires a comprehensive account of all benefits, services, and support owed to able and disabled veterans and their families " said Crim "and the coordination of federal, state and local resources for delivery of public services to veterans and their families" continued Larry Crim U.S. Senate 2014.

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Affordable Health Provider Incentive Act (AHPIA) -

An Act to expand the availability of quality, affordable health care, including certain free health services for qualifiying clients and significantly lower rates
for all Americans, while enhancing patient customer volume to affordable
and caring health care providers.
 
Larry Crim for U.S. Senate (TN) has offered an innovative solution to expand the availability of quality, affordable health care, including certain free health care services for qualifying clients and significantly lower rates for all Americans.  The AHPIA would include a Federal Register of providers in the medical, dental, mental health, counseling, and other health care service specializations agreeing to offer quality health care services at a substantially reduced rate. The AHPIA Federal Register of providers would be a referral point for patient consumers to locate quality affordable health care and result in a higher volume of patient business  directed to qualifying care providers.  The AHPIA would result in reduced health care costs and new health care jobs to handle volume.

"The AHPIA will create jobs  in health care, enhance the volume of clients for caring, qualified,
providers, make free regular health care a reality for qualifying families and lower overall
health care and co-pay costs for Americans" said Larry Crim (D) for U.S. SENATE
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NASHVILLE....   &    WASHINGTON D.C.  ---  Friday March 1, 2013

CRIM FOR SENATE SUBMITS SOLUTIONS TO STOP SEQUESTRATION...

Larry Crim for U.S. Senate (TN) says stopping $85 billion in “sequestration” cuts can be done by repealing foreign tax exemptions currently allowing multinational corporations to pay little to no income taxes, a reform which Crim states will result in more than $100 billion dollars annually. Crim says the tax reform measure would also create from 500,000 to 1 million new jobs in America as U.S. corporations return their now foreign tax sheltered operations back to America resulting in additional taxpayers into the system. “The jobs for Americans will follow the return of investments by American companies back to our country under this plan” said Larry Crim, a Tennessee Democrat seeking the U.S. Senate seat currently occupied by Republican Lamar Alexander.

The Tennessee Democrat says bringing jobs home is good for Americans personally and the economy as new jobs for Americans mean more consumer spending and new workers paying into the social security system as well as new income tax revenues into the federal government. Crim stated: “I believe that, economically, our first job is to help restore jobs...because more people working is good for Americans personally, stimulates consumer spending, creates new contributors to the social security system, and brings in revenues from new income earners.” Mr. Crim notes: “repealing the foreign tax dodges we've got in our tax law will go a long way toward bringing American companies and jobs home where  workers and corporations will be working together for the good of our economy, government, and all Americans.”

Reasons Why Sequestration Looms

Crim added that the across the board budget cuts now looming under the sequestration procedure are caused by the simple fact that “the majority of people in Washington today can't, that is, won't work together”. “People would rather blame each other than resolve a problem” said Larry Crim. The budget cuts caused by the sequestration, continued Crim, “would cost us between 500,000 to 700,000 jobs in a short time, perhaps in as little as 6 months, and that is bad for the economy” said Crim.

Crim said in the long run “America needs tax reform which we have needed for fifty (50) years. We don't have to wait another decade for tax reform to start or to wait another day for elements of needed tax reform to begin” said Crim.

Yet, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate admits: “The tone in Washington this year does not look favorable" for common sense solutions like he's proposing. Crim predicts that when citizens begin to realize the costs of these mandatory cuts he believes Washington will be forced to address the real revenue based and unnecessary expenditure items behind the budgetary shortfall or else Crim says “many of the politicians currently in Washington will be replaced."

Larry Crim, who has filed his federal Statement of Candidacy as a Democrat from Tennessee seeking election to the U.S. Senate in 2014, is currently the only democratic candidate running for the U.S. Senate seat currently occupied by Republican Lamar Alexander of Tennessee.

For further comments:
Contact: Larry Crim (D) for U.S. Senate (TN)
Tel: 615-478-9453

email # 1: Larry@LarryCrimUSSenate.com
email # 2: larocrim@aol.com
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L A R R Y  C R I M (D)
U.S. S E N A T E  (TN) 2014
For ALL Tennesseans...
email: Larry@LarryCrimUSSenate.com
Campaign Tel: 615-478-9453



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  Larry Crim for U.S. Senate
...For ALL Tennesseans...