Thom Tillis
Thom Tillis was born in Jacksonville, Florida, United States on August 30th, 1960 and is the Politician. At the age of 63, Thom Tillis biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Career
Tillis, a high school graduate, worked for Provident Life and Accident Insurance Co. in Chattanooga, Tennessee, helping computerize documents in collaboration with Wang Laboratories, a Boston-based computer firm. Wang eventually recruited Tillis to work in its Boston office. He spent two and a half years there before being moved back to Chattanooga and then Atlanta. He was recruited by accounting and consultancy firm Price Waterhouse in 1990. Tillis was promoted to partner in 1996. In 1998, he and his family moved to Cornelius, North Carolina.
In 2002, PricewaterhouseCoopers sold its consulting arm to IBM, and Tillis went to IBM. Tillis began his political career in Cornelius, 2002, when he campaigned for a local bike trail and was elected to the town's park board. He ran for town commissioner in 2003 and finished in second place.
Tillis ran for the General Assembly in 2006 after a two-year term as town commissioner. In the Republican primary, he defeated incumbent John W. Rhodes and went on to win the election unopposed. In 2008, 2010, 2010, and 2012, Tillis was unopposed. In 2009, he left IBM for the first time. In 2010, he served as the House Republican Caucus chair. Tillis was elected Speaker, the fifth Republican to serve in the North Carolina House since 1998, and was unanimously reelected in 2013. President Phil Berger, a narcotics journalist from Tillis and North Carolina, was named "GOP Legislators to Watch" in 2011.
Tillis' state house restructured the state's tax code, redrew North Carolina's congressional districts, and passed legislation to repeal existing state laws and rules and limit new limits to ten years.
Tillis presided over changes restricting early voting days, invalidating ballots cast outside one's precinct, and mandating certain forms of photo ID in order to vote, after Republican Pat McCrory was elected governor in 2012. If such laws were passed, a senior Tillis staffer had previously requested statistics on photo ID ownership based on gender, indicating that black people would be significantly more likely than white people to become unable to vote. Tillis said he requested the information to be sure the bill does not breach federal law against discrimination. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the restrictions, finding that they "target African Americans with almost surgical precision" in their decision.
After staging a sit-in in his office, 14 people were arrested protesting cuts to the earned income tax credits program and Tillis' refusal to expand Medicaid.