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Edited on Sat Mar-28-09 08:21 AM by doeriver
Williams plans to run in ’10
http://www.johnsoncitypress.com/09/News/article.php?ID=67956
By Hank Hayes
NET News Service
ELIZABETHTON — Tennessee House Speaker Kent Williams didn’t mince words about his political future Friday in front of a business-friendly crowd on his home turf.
“The good Lord willing ... if he keeps me healthy physically and mentally — and the mental part I really stress — I will seek re-election in 2010 to the House of Representatives in the 4th District,” Williams, a second-term Carter County Republican lawmaker and Elizabethton restaurant operator, told about 175 people at an Elizabethton/Carter County Chamber of Commerce Legislative Breakfast.
The man Williams beat out to be House speaker, House GOP Leader Jason Mumpower of Bristol, was scheduled to speak at the event but didn’t attend.
Rep. Jason Mumpower, R-Bristol
District 3 — Johnson and part of Sullivan Counties
Williams had committed to vote for Mumpower before voting for himself along with 49 House Democrats in January’s surprise speaker election.
Williams, who afterward was stripped of his party affiliation by Tennessee Republican Party Chairwoman Robin Smith, did not mention Mumpower, whose seat at the front table remained vacant.
Jason Mumpower was once a proud rooster crowing from his GOP perch within the Tennessee General Assembly...
“I know I’m going to have some challenges,” Williams said. “I’ve had a couple of problems with my own party, but we’re getting those ironed out. We just have a small minority, I think, here in Carter County that would rather see someone out of Nashville tell us what to do in Carter County than to have our own down there. But like I said, that’s a small minority, and I think in 2010 in November we’ll show what a small minority that is.”
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