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Hannah Hopper, chief of staff for the Emerald Youth Foundation, is expected to be elected chair of the Knox County Election Commission at a reorganizational meeting Wednesday at the small assembly room in the City County Building. Commissioner Bob Bowman, who’s just been reappointed to the commission board, said he plans to nominate Hopper with his daughter, Mary Caroline, a West High School freshman, in mind. “I want my daughter to have a model Republican to look up to,” he said. “Hann...

Patrick Jaynes can still remember it like it was yesterday.

Jaynes joins shop founded by Hinote, others Lobbying and consulting firm Jigsaw has added Patrick Jaynes as a strategic consultant. Jaynes previously spent nearly two decades in the office of former U.S. Sen. Lamar Alexander, for whom he was deputy chief of staff and state director. The former Republican staffer joins the firm founded in 2018 by veterans of Democratic campaigns and offices — Greg Hinote, Beecher Frasier and Sam Reed. Jigsaw’s roster of consultants also includes Vi...

Strategic consulting firm hires long-time Sen. Alexander employee