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The Tennessee Democratic Party elected former state senator Roy Herron as its new chairman, Saturday. It's a change party leaders hope will make up for costly losses in the house and senate in recent elections, but Herron tells Fox 17 News, the celebration will be short lived because he s got plenty of work to do.
"The biggest challenge facing the Tennessee Democratic Party is to win elections," Herron said.
In the 2012 elections, Tennessee democrats lost enough races to give state republicans a super, two-thirds, majority in the House and Senate for the first time in 35 years.
Herron replaces former chairman Chip Forrester who says his two terms focused on rebuilding the party s technology and infrastructure to help democratic candidates win some key seats back from republicans.
"We have a good foundation in place now," Forrester said. "We used that foundation in 2012 to elect Gloria Johnson in Knoxville, Bo Mitchell here in Nashville, Drren Jernigan who defeated Jim Gotto. We used all those techniques and new tools. I hope now my successor will continue building on those so we can continue moving the ball downfield."
The party's executive committee voted 39- 27 in favor of Herron who defeated former party treasurer David Garrison.
"I'm confident he'll be a strong leader for the party," Garrison said. "He and I have very different visions for the party and I look forward to seeing how he lays out his plan and hope to work with him in any positive way I can."
Herron says while he and his opponents disagree on some issues, they're ready to put the campaign behind them and work together.
"My focus is on the future," Herron said. "I'm not going to come in criticizing the past chair. I'm going to be looking to see what we can do going forward to move tennessee in the right direction."
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Saturday, January 26 2013, 08:02 PM CST
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Miss. chooses new firm to run Woodville prison
May 18, 2013 20:50 GMT
WOODVILLE, Miss. (AP) -- Mississippi officials have picked a new company to run the Wilkinson County Correctional Facility.
Utah-based Management and Training Corp. announced Friday that the Mississippi Department of Corrections has chosen it to run the 1,000-bed prison starting July 1, the Natchez Democrat reports (http://bit.ly/10MvOGv).
Corrections Corporation of America, based in Nashville, Tenn., had run the prison since 1998. MTC says it will keep "the vast majority" of employees.
MTC will get a five-year contract to run the prison with two one-year options. Last year, officials chose MTC to take over East Mississippi Correctional Facility, the Walnut Grove Correctional Facility and the Marshall County Correctional Facility from the GEO Group. MTC won 10-year contracts for each.
CCA still runs the Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility and the Adams County Correctional Center in Mississippi.
Information from: The Natchez Democrat, http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/
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