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Last Updated on Tuesday, 20 October 2009 10:23 Written by rslcpol Tuesday, 20 October 2009 10:23
From TimesFreePress.com:
For Tennessee House Speaker Kent Williams to get back in the good graces of the state GOP will be tough, but not impossible, party chairman Chris Devaney said Monday.
“Kent Williams figured out how to become speaker of the House,” Mr. Devaney told the Hamilton County Pachyderm Club. “He can figure out how to get back into the Republican Party.”
In January, Rep. Williams, R-Elizabethton, voted with 49 Democrats and against 49 other Republicans to get himself elected House speaker. In February, then-party chairwoman Robin Smith and the GOP executive committee barred Rep. Williams from running again as a Republican.