Michael FriedmanMichael B. Friedman, an assistant professor who teaches public relations at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, is seeking the Democratic nomination for Tennessee’s 3rd Congressional District seat.
The 43-year-old New Jersey native, who moved to Chattanooga in 2013 with his wife and family, is new to politics.
He decided to run, he said, “because there is an obvious lack of adequate representation for the majority of the district’s citizens and a complete failure or refusal to develop any meaningful solutions to help ease the current suffering of many of the district’s citizens.”
The incumbent is Republican Chuck Fleischmann, an attorney from Ooltewah who is running for a fourth term.
Friedman said the 3rd District “desperately needs a representative who has experienced, can relate to, and understands the struggles most Americans face on a daily basis.”