http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/us/11tennesee.html?ref=us
Tennessee lawmaker, Kent Williams, betrayed the Republican party last week by helping to get himself elected as the state's Speaker of House by a one vote majority. While Republicans, who controlled the body as of Monday, were backing Rep. Jason Mumpower to serve as Speaker, Williams, along with forty-nine Democrats, agreed to elect him instead. This is a really crazy story. I hadn't heard anything about the situation in Tennessee's Legislature prior to finding this article, so I think it's pretty exciting. Read it and let me know what you think. Is this further evidence of the decentralization of America's major political parties?
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Go find the video of the vote. It was very tense since they go alphabetically and he was last. Very interesting stuff.
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