Building the city we deserve.
After years standing up for our community as a citizen, I'm ready to stand up for our community as a commissioner.
2024 Johnson City Citizen Survey
Our community deserves better.
Neighbors feel unheard, and it's time to address it.
Source: 2024 Taxpayer Funded Johnson City Community Survey.
Leaked by Dave Adams, released to the public after backlash.
The Platform
Real priorities. Real specifics.
1. Rebuild Trust
Ask the uncomfortable questions, host resident roundtables, and proactively seek input on the decisions that impact you. The community will have a seat at the table.
2. Strengthen Small Business
Data driven decisions that support local ownership, local success, and local identity.
3. Address Housing Costs
Real oversight on Short Term Rentals, emphasis on Tennessee affordable housing initiatives, and a mission to keep the pathway to homeownership obtainable for working families.
The Receipts
Don't take his word for it. Check the data.
Dave published one month of audit logs from Johnson City's new license plate cameras: an animated map, a data explorer, and a free public API.
Source: Flock audit logs, July 7 to Aug 6, 2026. The export hit a row limit, so the true total is higher.
Out in the neighborhood
Dave, around town.
Track Record
A citizen who shows up. Every time.
I am a community advocate first. Always have been, always will be.
Charter Amendment Opposition
Educated voters and rallied community voices against four transparency-reducing Charter Amendments. All four amendments were rejected.
Bitcoin Mining Resolution
Authored a community resolution outlining sensible, data-driven ordinance changes necessary to protect our community from the harm of unregulated Bitcoin Mining.
Community Survey - Leak
Published the 2024 Community Survey results, a tri-annual taxpayer funded survey that the city quietly declined to publish. Shortly after, the city reluctantly released the results to media.
Mayor Hunter Accountability
First public figure to call for the resignation of Mayor John Hunter after a viral video depicted an incident of severely impaired driving.
Housing and Community Development Board Appointment
Appointed to the Johnson City Housing and Community Development Board.
Flock Audit Log Analysis
Obtained a month of audit logs from the city's new Flock cameras and published every search as a public map, data explorer, and free API. The logs showed searches routinely arriving from far beyond the limits the city described.
What Comes Next?
That part is up to you. Put a sign in the yard, knock doors with us, or say three minutes at the mic.
“Local government should be open, responsive, and focused on results.”
Dave is a software engineer, husband to Jessica, and father to Bash and Charlotte.
His family relocated to the region after Hurricane Katrina 20 years ago and has called Johnson City home ever since.
No political family. No real estate interests. Just a neighbor who gives a damn.
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