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In 1990, with the Tennessee Democratic Party mired in scandal—the secretary of state had committed suicide and the previous majority leader had been elected while serving a prison sentence—Purcell barely won the position of House majority leader.
After implementing reforms for 10 years, Purcell says he felt that he had done all he wanted to do with the state government and decided not to run for a sixth term.
According to Purcell, his time in local politics convinced him that the most change could be effected at the local level, especially on children’s issues.
After spending two years as the director of Vanderbilt’s Institute of Public Policy Studies, Purcell says he decided to run for mayor of Nashville as a “conclusion” to the crusade he had begun years before in Vanderbilt’s Legal Aid...
“In the ’80s if you asked me if I would have ran for mayor I would have said, and did tell people, ‘No,’” Purcell says, leaning on the table as he had done earlier while...