Bud Hulsey | |
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Member of the TennesseeHouseofRepresentatives from the 2nd district | |
Assumed office January 13, 2015 | |
Preceded by | Tony Shipley |
Personal details | |
Born | Charles Nolan Hulsey May 30,1949 |
Political party | Republican |
Residence | Kingsport,Tennessee |
Alma mater | Bob Jones University,B.A. |
Charles Nolan "Bud" Hulsey (born May 30,1949) is an American politician. A Republican,he represents the 2nd District in Sullivan County in the Tennessee House of Representatives . [1] During his tenure in the Tennessee House of Representatives,he has proposed to ban COVID vaccines and lab-grown meat. [2] [3]
Bud Hulsey was born on May 30,1949,and he attended Durango High School as a Durango Demon from 1964 to his 1967 graduation. Hulsey later attended Bob Jones University at Greenville,South Carolina from 1967 to 1972 where was a member of the "Byran" (William Jennings Bryan Literary Society at Bob Jones University) men's society and where he also obtained his Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree in education. [1]
Bud Hulsey is a retired Kingsport Police lieutenant with post graduate work at the University of Virginia via the FBI National Academy. [1]
He is the owner and President of Burlington Logistics,Inc.,a trucking company located in the Tri-Cities area of East Tennessee. [4]
Hulsey was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives as a member of the 109th General Assembly in 2014 after defeating three-term incumbent Tony Shipley [5] in the Republican primary and Independent J.R. Enfield in the general election. [5] He was again elected to serve in the 110th General Assembly in 2016 after a victory over Democratic challenger J.S. Moore. [6] On November 6,2018,Hulsey was re-elected to serve in the 111th General Assembly after defeating Democratic challenger Arvil Love,Jr. and Independent challenger Robert Ellis in the General Election. [6] The second district proved its loyalty to Hulsey yet again on November 3,2020,when they overwhelmingly supported him against repeat challenger Arvil Love,Jr. in the general election. [6] He has since been re-elected uncontested.
During the COVID-19 pandemic,he proposed legislation to prohibit mandatory COVID-19 vaccination. [2]
In 2023,the Tennessee House voted on motions to remove three sitting Democratic representatives — Gloria Johnson,Justin Jones,and Justin J. Pearson — for disrupting proceedings with a protest as citizens were at the capitol voicing their outrage over a mass shooting at a Nashville school that left six dead. [7] Hulsey voted in favor of all three resolutions:HR 63,to remove Pearson; [8] HR 64,to remove Johnson; [9] and HR 65,to remove Jones. [10] Pearson and Jones were expelled,while Johnson was not. [11]
In 2024,Hulsey proposed to ban lab-grown meat. He argued that exposing humans to lab-grown meat was a violation of the Nuremberg Code (a set of ethical research principles for human experimentation established in the wake of Nazi experiments on humans). [3]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Bud Hulsey | 12,249 | 84.2 | |
Independent | J.R. Enfield | 2,302 | 15.8 | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Bud Hulsey | 20,334 | 80.5 | |
Democratic | J.S. Moore | 4,940 | 19.6 | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Bud Hulsey | 17,444 | 75.9 | |
Democratic | Arvil Love,Jr. | 4,966 | 21.6 | |
Independent | Robert Ellis | 572 | 2.5 | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Bud Hulsey | 23,278 | 77.1 | |
Democratic | Arvil Love,Jr. | 6,902 | 22.9 | |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | |
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Republican | Bud Hulsey | 15,359 | 99.6 | |
Other (United States) | Write-in | 63 | 0.4 | |
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