Over the Mountain with Frank Niceley

A student of the long history of freedom fighting and the contributions of Appalachian culture to making America and Tennessee great, Frank is now sharing the wisdom he’s gained both on the farm and in politics on the Over the Mountain podcast.

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Frank Niceley

During his 24 years in the Tennessee legislature, Frank Niceley developed a reputation as “the people’s statesman.” An ardent fighter for our right to eat healthy nutritious food and for small farmers’ and ranchers’ right to profitably provide it, Frank consistently worked on legislation to protect and promote rural agriculture, passing commonsense and forward-thinking bills to ensure Tennesseans’ access to healthy foods. With a degree in soil science and a lifetime on the farm, Frank has seen first-hand that healthy soil makes healthy animals and, therefore, healthy humans.

In addition, Frank’s deep understanding of local enterprise and economics inspired his leadership in reducing taxes and burdensome regulation and easing barriers to using gold and silver coin. While in office, he also consistently prevented the passage of legislation and regulations that impaired our constitutional freedoms. Frank gives generously of his time and encyclopedic knowledge to help legislators and leaders across the country spread the benefits of good food, good economics, and good law.

Frank’s Legislation

In the 2024 session the Frank introduced a wide swath of bills with the intent to protect Tennesseans. These included a constitutional resolution to protect the individual’s right to grow and acquire the food of their choice (SJR 902); a bill that would have barred any prohibition on the growing of produce and the raising of chicken or meat rabbits on a residential lot (SB 1761); a bill that would have exempted farms from any vaccine mandate for their livestock or poultry, if the farms’ practice was not to vaccinate their livestock or poultry (SB 2543); and legislation that would have prohibited cell-cultured meat from being defined as “meat” (SB 2603).

The Senator is also a leader in the legislature in regards to protecting Tennesseans’ financial sovereignty. Introducing legislation that would have authorized the Tennessee treasurer to take a portion of the Tennessee rainy day fund and put it into precious metals and would have also made gold and silver legal tender in TN (SB2737). The Senator previously passed a bill that took the tax off gold and silver in TN.

In 2023 the Senator sponsored bills that passed into law which prohibited the selling of TN land to foreign entities (SB 0122) and authorized the Governor to send forces to Texas to help protect the southern border (SB 2538).

In 2022 the Senator passed the groundbreaking piece of legislation, SB 2188, that made Tennessee the only state in the nation where ivermectin can be sold over the counter. Equally groundbreaking was his SB 1147 which protects Tennesseans property rights against UN’s “Agenda 21” adopted by the United Nations in 1992 at its Conference on Environment and Development, the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the U.N.’s proposal to reach net zero emissions by 2050.

The Senator is also a staunch defender of our 2nd amendment rights, sponsoring numerous bills over his time in the legislature in regards to this crucial part of US citizens maintaining their freedom. In 2017 his SB 0700 created a lifetime handgun carry permit for Tennesseans. The following year SB1910 passed into law prohibiting a municipality from charging a person with a violation of an ordinance prohibiting the discharge of a firearm if the person acted in justifiable self-defense passed into law as well. In 2022 his SB 2628 decriminalized shotguns and SBRs, including pistol-braces under TN-law.

He also sponsored SB 0908 which would have protected the victim of a crime from being charged with a felony for holding an attacker at gunpoint until law enforcement arrives & SB 0207 which would have removed background check requirement for handgun carry permit holder, if permit was issued or renewed within five years of the date of the transaction (already the law in Georgia).

“YOU’VE GOT TO GET AFTER YOUR POLITICIANS AND MAKE THEM PAY ATTENTION. IF YOU GET ENOUGH PEOPLE CALLING ALL THEIR LEGISLATORS, THEN THEY’LL LISTEN. I’VE SEEN ONE OR TWO PHONE CALLS CHANGE A POLITICIAN. DON’T UNDERESTIMATE THE POWER OF A PHONE CALL.”

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