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Carroll County Republicans to Caucus

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Republican Party members meet Tuesday, October 29 to select delegates for a District 24 convention next month. The meeting is 7 p.m. in the conference room of the Huntingdon Police Department.
The meeting is in connection with the vacant 24th Judicial District Chancellor’s position, which covers Carroll, Henry, Benton, Decatur, and Hardin counties. Each county will hold meetings to select delegates and will meet November 23 for the district convention. The location and time were not announced at press time.
The chancellor position became open after Chancellor Carma McGee was appointed to the Tennessee Court of Appeals, Western Section. Circuit judges Donald Parish and Creed McGinley are hearing many of the cases on the Chancery Court docket.

Delegates must be ‘bona fide’ Republicans who voted in three of the last four primary elections.
Each county’s number of delegates will be based on the number of votes cast in the last presidential election. One delegate is allowed per 100 votes cast in the 2016 election. Carroll County has 77 delegates going to the district convention.
According to Tom Aljancic, three persons announced their interest in the chancellor’s position at this time and more could announce prior to the district convention.
Brent Bradberry, of McKenzie, is a public defender in Weakley County and recently resigned as party chairman of Carroll County. Vicki Hoover, a Paris attorney, and Vance Dennis of Savannah, a 24th Judicial District assistant district attorney. Bradberry and Dennis were finalists for the appointment earlier this year when the third finalist, Jennifer King of Huntingdon was appointed chancellor by Governor Lee. King was appointed to fill the unexpired term of McGee until the 2020 elections. King resigned after the Republican party changed its method of selecting party nominees from a primary system to a caucus system. That occurred immediately after her appointment.

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