For a few moments it looked like chaos.

• Position: People & Politics - New speaker of the Tennessee House, Kent Williams - Brief article

For a few moments it looked like chaos. The new speaker of the Tennessee House was a Republican, as expected since the GOP won control of the chamber for the first time since Reconstruction by one seat in November. But he wasn't the presumptive speaker, Jason Mumpower, whose caucus unanimously elected him as their candidate for speaker in December. It was Kent Williams elected by the 49 Democrats in the House and a single Republican vote--his own. The election was the end of Jimmy Naifeh's leadership...