Renee Hoyos

While director of the TCWN she pressed a lawsuit against KUB for their dumping of toxic waste into local water supplies and pointed out that the Mississippi River, which drains a third of the United States' freshwater, has been used for decades as the nation's "sewer".[2] In February 2017 she also requested a townhall meeting with the current US Representative for the district, John Duncan Jr., to discuss a bill that was pending in the House to abolish the Environmental Protection Agency; Duncan refused to hold the meeting.[3] In 2016 Hoyos became noted as one of "ten women who make a difference in Knoxville".[4] She also pushed for the enactment of the Clean Power Plan.[5]

Hoyos first ran for Congress in 2018, in which she won the nomination in Tennessee's 2nd congressional district by a landslide. She became one of six women in Tennessee who received their party's nomination for US Congress during the 2018 midterms.[6] In the general election, she lost to Tim Burchett, the mayor of Knox County. She is running again in 2020 and is also taking advantage of M.M.LaFleur's clothing promotion to dress any female candidates running in the election.[7]