Capitol Hill Conversation: Positioning To Be Tennessee's Next Governor

WPLN | By Chas Sisk,

Jason Moon Wilkins

Published January 17, 2017 at 3:23 AM CST

Governor Bill Haslam's second term ends in 2018, and the race to replace him has already begun with the first candidates announcing they will run.

Hear this conversation between WPLN Morning Edition host Jason Moon Wilkins and state capitol correspondent Chas Sisk

Many Tennessee voters — Republicans and Democrats alike — will spend the coming days trying to understand what it will mean for Donald Trump to be president. But for many at the state capitol, attention is turning to Election Day, 2018.

The race to succeed Governor Bill Haslam is already under way. And WPLN's state politics reporter Chas Sisk says that's mostly because it costs so much to mount a competitive campaign.

Chas Sisk

Chas joined WPLN in 2015 after eight years with The Tennessean, including more than five years as the newspaper's statehouse reporter.Chas has also covered communities, politics and business in Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. Chas grew up in South Carolina and attended Columbia University in New York, where he studied economics and journalism. Outside of work, he's a dedicated distance runner, having completed a dozen marathons

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