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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Dec 29, 2014

Former state Rep. Gloria Johnson is withdrawing from the race for state Democratic Party chair saying that she is in talks with Organizing for America to take over as Tennessee director for the group, Knoxnews reports. Johnson was on a list recommended by a special committee to the Democratic Party Executive Committee, whose members will select a a new chair Jan. 10. Others in the race are Knoxville lawyer Terry Adams, former state Senate candidate Mary Mancini of Nashville and Lenda Sherrell, a Fourth Congressional District candidate who lost in November. Whoever is selected will replace Roy Herron, who announced in September he would not seek a second term. Herron’s wife, Nancy Miller-Herron, revealed Sunday that Herron suffered a heart attack Dec. 1 but is recuperating well. The paper has that story as well.