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Question of the weekend: Kent Williams' status

Tennessee House Speaker Kent Williams (I-Elizabethton)
Tennessee House Speaker Kent Williams (I-Elizabethton)
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This week I wrote a lot about Tennessee House Speaker Kent Williams and the predicament between him and the Tennessee Republican Party. That leads to our question of the weekend for reader participation:


Will the Tennessee Republican State Rxecutive Committee ever re-instate House Speaker Kent Williams? If they do, when will they do so?

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David Oatney is a freelance political writer, blogger, and conservative activist. He is active in local Republican and municipal politics, and...

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  • Bluesmoke 2 years ago
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    The GOP State Executive Committee can neither remove nor reinstate Kent Williams or anyone else. Then State Chair Robin Smith made the decision not to allow Kent's name to appear on the ballot as a Republican. There was a sense of the body resolution put before the Executive Committee before Robin announced her decision. It was announced that the resolution passed although the results (vote count) were never announced or published. Any vote by the Executive Committee will be just that...Sense of the Body .. not binding or enforceable

  • Political Straight Talk 2 years ago
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    This is really a dead horse issue. Kent will be a has-been when the new legislature is seated in 2011.

  • David Oatney 2 years ago
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    Bluesmoke;
    You had better believe that Chairman Chris Devaney will treat the sense of the body as binding-he has already essentially stated that he is leaving the question up to the SEC.

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