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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
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It's really a shame they didn't initially go with "some of those who hold office" as the opening line, "work forces" just doesn't have nearly the same punch.
Honestly, I feel like Rage Against the Machine taught me a lot more about how racist this country is than high school history classes.
after a week of repeating "We can't control the virus". Oh, the irony.
From the Wichita Eagle
: Kansas makes history, elects retired Wichita teacher as its first transgender legislator
Stephanie Byers was elected in HD-86. She's also a member of Chickasaw Nation.
Elected officials having to give up their current positions to run for others only happens in about five states:
- Arizona, if they are not in their final year of their term.
- Florida, although a US District Judge said back in 1970 that the law is unconstitutional when running for US Congress.
- Georgia, in all cases except for US Congress, in which case they must resign if the term for their old position is expiring 30 days or more away from the start of their new one.
- Hawai'i, as long as the term of their sought after office starts before their current office ends
- Texas, an automatic resign from office if you run for another and leave an unexpired term of one year and thirty days or more, applies only to a large number of county offices, elected law enforcement, District Clerks, District Attorneys, Assessors and Collectors, and Public Weighers
- People can also run for an office while also being a candidate for US President or Vice President
Edited by tclittle on Nov 6th 2020 at 10:42:13 AM
"We're all paper, we're all scissors, we're all fightin' with our mirrors, scared we'll never find somebody to love."NBC: Transgender representation to nearly double in state legislatures
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Three of the country's four current transgender state legislators - Brianna Titone of Colorado and Gerri Cannon and Lisa Bunker of New Hampshire - all won re-election. The fourth, Virginia Delegate Danica Roem, who in 2017 became the first openly transgender person elected to a state legislature, is up for re-election next year.
At least five others, including an incumbent who was not previously out as gender-nonconforming, won Tuesday, bringing the total number to at least nine once they all take office.
Among the winners is Sarah McBride, a Delaware Democrat, who made history as the first transgender person elected to a state Senate. She will also become the country's highest-ranking transgender elected official once she takes office.
Joshua Query was an incumbent legislator in New Hampshire's statehouse but came out as gender-nonconforming during their first term. Query was re-elected to the statehouse as New Hampshire's first genderqueer representative by a slim margin of 34 votes.
In neighboring Vermont, Taylor Small became the first transgender person elected to the state Legislature. Her platform includes expanding access to health insurance for those affected by the coronavirus pandemic, and ensuring local issues in her constituency were heard in the statehouse.
Mauree Turner, who is nonbinary, Black and Muslim, won a seat in the Oklahoma House of Representatives, becoming the first nonbinary person elected to any state's legislature.
And Stephanie Byers won a seat in the Kansas House of Representatives, becoming the first transgender woman of color elected to any state legislature in the U.S. Byers, a member of the Native American Chickasaw Nation, said her win was surprising, but she relished that she had made history.
