MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Democrats in this state are doing something unusual: Winning their elections
By artappraiser on Tue, 11/07/2017 - 12:44pm |By Robert Samuels @ WashingtonPost.com, Nov. 6
NORMAN, Okla. — The newest state legislator in Oklahoma leaned over his bathroom sink, teasing his tousled hair to get that John F. Kennedy bouffant. The blue suit came from J.C. Penney and fit snugly [....] Jacob Rosecrants, a 39-year-old single father [.....]
A month before, he was a middle school geography teacher driving a Chrysler PT Cruiser with no air conditioning, knocking on doors at the end of a hot Oklahoma summer. Now, he is the poster boy for a national party desperate to rebuild its bench.
Rosecrants is a Democrat who won in a district that is 60 percent Republican. He is one of three Democrats who have won GOP legislative districts in Oklahoma special elections in the months since President Trump won 65 percent of the vote in one of the country’s most conservative states [....]
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