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6,250 subscribers www.TML1.org Volume 69, Number 19 Nov. 12, 2018 Lee, Blackburn claim TN victory TML District Meetings Thursday, Nov. 29 District 4 Crossville Friday, Nov. 30 District 3 Collegedale Tuesday, Dec. 4 District 5 Gallatin Wednesday, Dec. 5 District 2 Morristown Thursday, Dec. 6 District 1 Greeneville Monday, Dec. 10 District 7 Henderson Tuesday, Dec. 11 District 8 Millington Friday, Dec 14 District 6 Columbia Mark your calendars and plan to attend! Photos by The Tennessean Tennesseans elected Repub- And I couldn’t be more grateful,” Corker, who after serving two lican Bill Lee as the state’s 50th Lee said during his acceptance terms opted not to run again. governor on Nov. 6, voting into speech. “I’m grateful you placed Blackburn won the seat with office a political newcomer. Lee your trust in us to lead this great 55 percent of the votes to Bre- easily defeated former Nashville state of Tennessee.” desen’s 44 percent. Mayor Karl Dean with 60 percent Lee will be sworn into office Blackburn has served the of the votes to Dean’s 39 percent. on Saturday, Jan. 19, 2019, in 7th Congressional District in the Lee, 59, is a Tennessean busi- Nashville. House of Representatives since nessman and CEO of his family’s Republican Marsha Blackburn 2003. She previously served in the HVAC, plumbing, and electrical defeated former Tennessee Gov- Tennessee Senate from 1999 to business, Lee Company. He cam- ernor Phil Bredesen to become 2003. paigned on a socially and fiscally Tennessee’s first female elected to For a complete results of conservative platform. the U.S. Senate. Tennessee’s state elections, see “I’m humbled. I’m honored. She will succeed Sen. Bob ELECTION on Page 4 TN voters send three new Voters go to polls in 196 municipalities across TN congressmen to Washington By KATE COIL Clarksville votes in TML Communications Specialist new mayor, rejects Voters in municipalities from county consolidation Adams to Woodland Mills came to See Page 3 the polls to cast their ballots in local elections on Nov. 6, bringing a mix Municipalities hold of new and familiar names to city referendums councils, commissions, and boards . See Page 3 ADAMS A. Keith McDonald (i) 18.967 COMMISSIONER (vote two) ALDERMAN 1 Tim Burchett Wayne Evans (i) 116 John Rose Mark Green W.C. “Bubba” Pleasant (i) 19,756 TN 2nd Congressional District TN 6th Congressional District TN 7th Congressional District ADAMSVILLE ALDERMAN 2 COMMISSIONER (vote two) Mitch Arnold 7,700 Jackie Hamm (i) 615 Nine candidates were elected of Representatives. He served in torial nomination. Emily Elliott (i) 12,840 to the U.S. House of Representa- the House for two two-year terms, In the race for Marsha Black- Lee Winters (i) 610 ALDERMAN 3 ALCOA David Parsons (i) 19,541 tives this year, sending three new from 1995 to 1998. In 1998, he was burn’s open congressional seat, CITY COMMISSION (vote three) BEAN STATION faces to Washington. elected to state Senate and twice Republican state Sen. Mark Green Clint Abbott Jr. (i) 2,049 MAYOR Tim Burchett, former Knox won re-election, serving a total of beat his Democratic challenger Vaughn Belcher (i) 1,966 Patsy Winstead Harrell 337 County mayor, won the election three four-year terms, from 1999 to Justin Kanew with 67 percent of Tanya Henderson Martin 1,682 Jimmie Seals 37 to represent East Tennessee’s 2nd 2010. the votes to Kanew’s 32 percent. Don Mull (i) 1,677 Ben Waller 509 ALTAMONT District U.S. House seat. He beat Republican John Rose won the Green currently serves as state ALDERMAN (vote two) Democratic challenger Renee race to succeed U.S. Rep. Diane Senator from the Clarksville area, a MAYOR Mickey Ankrom (i) 440 Jana Barrett (i) 204 Eddie Douglas 305 Hoyos with 66 percent of the votes Black in Tennessee’s 6th Congres- seat he has held since 2012. He is ALDERMAN (vote two) John McMurray 273 to Hoyos’ 33.2 percent. sional District. Rose ran against a West Point graduate and former Nina Fultz 190 Junior Sizemore 264 He will fill the seat previously Democrat Dawn Barlow, garnering Army flight surgeon. Penny Sons (i) 192 Sandra Wieber 155 held by John “Jimmy” Duncan, Jr., nearly 70 percent of the votes to ALDERMAN (unexpired) All of the six incumbents were BEERSHEBA SPRINGS who served in that role since 1988. Barlow’s 28 percent. re-elected – U.S. House District 1: Linda King Roberts 223 COMMISSIONER ARDMORE His father, John J. Duncan Sr., held Rose owns and operates a Phil Roe (R); U.S. House District Natasha King 112 that seat from 1964 to his death in family farm in Smith and DeKalb MAYOR BELLE MEADE 3: Chuck Fleischmann (R); U.S. Ken Crosson 145 COMMISSION (vote three) 1988. counties. He’s also a former com- House District 4: Scott DesJarlais Mike Magnusson 203 Louise Bryan 1,304 Burchett fended off seven can- missioner of the Tennessee Depart- (R); U.S. House District 5: Jim Tim McConnell (i) 80 Rusty Moore 1,238 didates in the Republican primary, ment of Agriculture and chairman Paul T. Van Manen 16 Cooper (D); U.S. House District 8: Charles M. Thornburg 835 including former state Rep Jimmy of the Tennessee State Association David Kustoff (R): and U.S. House ALDERMAN (vote three) Bob Weigel (i) 13,925 Shane Emerson 233 Matlock. Fair Board. District 9: Steve Cohen (D). Robert L. Zeglarski 214 Burchett’s first election to He replaces Black, who gave Wayne E. Harvell (i) 190 BETHEL SPRINGS Jason Sherman 252 MAYOR public office was in 1994, when he up her seat in an unsuccessful bid For more election results, see Spencer N. Smith 199 Gary L. Bizzell Jr (i) 163 won a seat in the Tennessee House for the state’s Republican guberna- ELECTION on Page 4 Joe Stagner (i) 189 Benny Jennings 64 ATOKA ALDERMAN (vote two) MAYOR Gilbert L. Atkins 131 W. Daryl Walker (i) 2,918 Gary Lynn Bizzell, Sr (i) 113 How does Ransomware attacks ALDERMAN (vote three) John M. Wood (i) 169 Barry L. Akin (i) 1,386 BIG SANDY Greg Billings 681 MAYOR affect municipal governments? Scott Cooper 480 Autumn Ratliff 135 BY SANDY REESER system for six days and, as of June bers or credit card information, Daniel Feldmayer (i) 892 ALDERMEN (vote three) these attacks also have operational John Harber 1,036 VC3 Chief Executive Officer 2018, the city estimated the cost of Sissy Lynn Corbitt 37 recovery could reach $12 million. impacts. Pamela C. Johnson 421 Christie Tubbs Craig 52 Daniel Lee 294 Ransomware attacks are es- Besides these impacts, the For example, a ransomware Terry Culpepper 89 attack that shuts down digital assets Bruce R. McConnell 395 Jayson Dobson 93 sentially cyber attacks in which the extent of the cyber attacker’s pene- Christopher Cody Pace 539 Barbara A. Marshall Feldbauer 44 attacker often encrypts the victim’s tration could also leave a municipal such as a payment platform or citi- Christy Renfrow 606 Becky Belyew Wright 75 data and effectively holds the data government vulnerable to other cy- zen portals, could effectively grind Keith E. Richter 234 BLAINE hostage unless a ransom is paid. ber risks after the fact. These risks municipal operations to a halt. A Ryan Ripperton 146 MAYOR municipality may also be forced to ATHENS Although a brazen form of include additional data breaches Marvin D. Braden 459 cybercrime, municipalities are far and leaks on the darkweb where use pen and paper instead of apps COUNCIL (vote three) Robert W. Brady Jr 71 Tracy Carter 831 from immune from ransomware. users and website managers can designed to streamline operations, Brandon Solomon 88 and ransomware that shuts down Joseph “Tom” Holmes 541 ALDERMAN (vote five) In general, ransomware attacks remain anonymous or untraceable. Mark Douglas Lockmiller 1,591 Earl Dunn Jr (i) 407 are designed to extort the victim 911 or 311 dispatch systems could Adolphus “Dick” Pelley (i) 1,469 Michael Fennell (i) 419 which may be a municipal gov- The impact of ransomware on even put lives at risk. Bo Perkinson (i) 1,594 Darrell Ray Williams (i) 440 ernment. For example, the cyber local government operations In March of this year, a ran- Jason Pickel 1,354 Jimmy Copeland (write-in) 21 somware attack on Baltimore shut Yvonne Raper (i) 1,098 attackers who unleashed the Sam- Not only do ransomware at- Patsy McElhaney (write-in) 31 Sam malware on Atlanta in March tacks put governments at risk of down the city’s CAD system for Frances Witt-McMahan 1,360 BRADEN ATWOOD of this year had demanded $50,000 losing control of their classified, about 22 hours impacting the 911 COMMISSIONER (vote two) system. While manual dispatching MAYOR Chester M. Cocke (i) 87 in bitcoin. In addition, the city of confidential and personal informa- James R. Halford, Sr. (i) 275 Mackie L. Green Jr. 58 Atlanta was locked-out of its IT tion, such as social security num- See RANSOMWARE on Page 10 ALDERMAN (vote two) BRADFORD Jim Lewis (i) 245 MAYOR L.N. McNabb Jr. (i) 240 Ray Arnold (i) 262 BANEBERRY ALDERMAN (vote two) COMMISSIONER (vote two) Randy Graville 218 Clifford Best 43 Richard Hollinshead 190 Tom C. Carter 104 BRUCETON Mark Plonski 69 MAYOR Gary Zander 106 Robert T. Keeton III (i) 223 BARTLETT Frank McGee 56 MAYOR Jenna F. Nunamaker Young 93 John Lackey 3,405 See CITY VOTES on Page 6 www.TML1.org 2-TENNESSEE TOWN & CITY/NOV. 12, 2018 Work progressing on new Athens splash pad ASHLAND CITY FRANKLIN parts, as well as engine and hybrid Arcosa Marine will invest more The city of Franklin is beginning parts.