The Republican served as a state representative from 2010-2012, when he lost his seat by 95 votes to Democrat Darren Jernigan.
[2] In May 2005, Councilman Gotto proposed to erect a $4,000 glass or Plexiglass wall between the public and the Metro council members.
In it, Senator Miller decries the moral state of modern America and declares he is pleased to present S.J.
26, a proposal to amend the United States Constitution that would define marriage as only between one man and one woman, and S. 1558, which would reserve to the states or their political subdivisions the power to display the Ten Commandments, to recite the Pledge of Allegiance, and to recite the national motto "In God We Trust".
[5][6][7] In 2007, Gotto was challenged by the first openly gay man to run for public office against an incumbent in the State of Tennessee, Shane E. Burkett.