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Tennessee state officials are trying to make a case for selecting the Volunteer State for the the world headquarters of the new company that will be formed by the merger of Chrysler Group and Fiat SpA. Marchionne met with Tennessee Governor Bill Haslam and others on Sunday when he was in town for a ceremony marking the expansion of the Magneti Marelli components plant in Pulaski. A local radio station, WPLN-FM, reports that Marchionne commented that the officials had been "working me over pretty well." When he rhetorically asked where those assembled for the ribbon cutting where they would prefer the headquarters to be, Governor Haslam said: "I vote right here." Pulaski is a city of less than 8,000 in southern Tennessee, about 75 miles south of Nashville. The county seat of Giles County, it's best-known as the birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan following the Civil War. Tennessee..
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