{"id":1726113,"date":"2022-11-06T19:52:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T00:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1726113"},"modified":"2022-11-06T19:53:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T00:53:47","slug":"a-place-that-values-opportunity-security-and-freedom-gov-bill-lee-explains-why-americans-are-drawn-to-tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/a-place-that-values-opportunity-security-and-freedom-gov-bill-lee-explains-why-americans-are-drawn-to-tennessee\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018A Place That Values Opportunity, Security, And Freedom:\u2019 Gov. Bill Lee Explains Why Americans Are Drawn To Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fa-place-that-values-opportunity-security-and-freedom-gov-bill-lee-explains-why-americans-are-drawn-to-tennessee%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1726113&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Tennessee Republican Governor Bill Lee sat down with Ben Shapiro on this week\u2019s episode of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/episode\/ep-133-bill-lee\">The Sunday Special<\/a>\u201d to discuss why American businesses and citizens across the United States have relocated to the southern state.<\/p>\n<p>Lee, who operated a family-owned business for 25 years before becoming governor, said creating a business-friendly environment ranked as one of his top priorities before entering office in 2019. Since he was sworn in, the state has garnered 272 project commitments to create almost 40,000 jobs and $12.9 billion in capital investments, according to the state website.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmericans right now look around the country, and they see things that are worrisome,\u201d Lee told Shapiro. \u201cThey want to be reminded that America is the greatest nation in the world, they want to see places that remind them that America hadn\u2019t lost their way, and I think when they look at Tennessee \u2014 they see that and a whole lot of them have decided they want to be there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to a report by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hoover.org\/research\/california-business-exits-soared-2021-and-there-no-end-sight\">Hoover Institution<\/a>, Tennessee, Florida, and Texas have attracted California businesses \u2014 like The Daily Wire \u2014 and others from predominantly blue states. States like Tennessee, which offer fewer regulations, taxes, and workforce development strategies for business owners, help create jobs and opportunities for its residents.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/chiefexecutive.net\/best-worst-states-business\/\">The Tax Foundation<\/a>, a nonpartisan think tank focusing on state and national tax policies, ranks Tennessee 3rd for quality state business climates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTennessee is a place that values opportunity and security and freedom,\u201d Lee said. \u201cAnd those things are things that Americans are looking for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not just the state\u2019s business environment driving new residents and companies into Tennessee. The governor has been fighting against the federal government\u2019s COVID policies since the early days of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Shapiro said the COVID response from individual states opened a wide gap between areas with strict protocols and those more focused on freedom. While legacy media praised states like California and New York for shutting down businesses and schools early and mandating face coverings, states like Tennessee \u201cdidn\u2019t get enough credit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lee said his background as a business owner in the private sector helped navigate his decisions to keep the state open as much as possible, despite the massive pushback he received from the media and the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end of the day, I decided we can trust Tennesseans more than we can trust anybody else, frankly, because they know best,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Lee said the philosophy that people should be given the freedom to make their own decisions also extends to parents making choices about their children\u2019s education and health care.<\/p>\n<p>As a proponent for funding students over school systems, Lee also discussed how Tennessee became a pro-school choice state for families and why lawmakers are working on legislation for parents to moderate the content taught in the classroom and shared in the libraries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Left says we\u2019re attacking this or attacking that,\u201d Lee said. \u201cWhat we really are doing . . is we\u2019re just protecting and preserving.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lee commended Daily Wire host Matt Walsh for his expos\u00e9 on Vanderbilt University Medical Center\u2019s transgender treatment of minors, which led to lawmakers demanding an investigation into the Nashville pediatric gender clinic.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhenever we can expose and make transparent things that are going on that people don\u2019t know about \u2014 that\u2019s a good thing,\u201d he said, adding adults should not allow children to make life-altering decisions for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s sad, and it shouldn\u2019t happen.\u201d Lee said. \u201cIt\u2019s wrong on every level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lee\u2019s office also said he would contact state lawmakers about legislation regarding transgender care for minors after shocking videos showed a Vanderbilt doctor calling certain transgender surgeries \u201chuge money makers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Lee also shared his optimism for the country\u2019s trajectory ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, believing Americans \u201ctend to stay on track when the country gets too far\u201d on either side of the political spectrum.<\/p>\n<p>With many Americans worried the country could fall apart without any uniting principle, Lee said Americans recourse to stand together rather than rely on the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe make a course adjustment,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019ve done it for 300 years . . . and we find ourselves moving down the path of a more perfect union. And every time we make that adjustment, we become a little bit more of a perfect union.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH the latest Sunday Special episodes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/show\/sunday-special\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennessee Republican Governor Bill Lee sat down with Ben Shapiro on this week\u2019s episode of \u201cThe Sunday Special\u201d to discuss why American businesses and citizens across the United States have relocated to the southern state. 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