By AP
Nashville, TN – Tennessee Governor-elect Bill Haslam's newly named chief of staff Claude Ramsey has some words of caution for Tennessee Republicans celebrating their new high water mark in state politics: Tides can turn quickly. Republicans last month won the governor's race and picked up 14 seats in the state House. Republicans were within three seats of a majority in the state House when Ramsey was a freshman lawmaker in the early 1970s, but were wiped out in 1974 amid voter outrage over the Watergate scandal, leaving the GOP with only 35 of the chamber's 99 seats - just one more than currently held by Democrats. Ramsey says government officials must remember that voters can quickly turn against them.