November 8, 2002
AFTERSHOCKS:
Veteran Legislator Appears to Lose Seat in Recount (The Associated Press, November 8, 2002)A recount of votes in Wayne County has turned up an upset in the legislative election.Veteran Democratic state House member Phil Baddour Junior lost to Republican challenger Louis Pate by a narrow margin of 164 votes.
Votes were recounted by the county board of elections after a software error caused thousands of Wayne County ballots not to be counted.
Baddour's loss would give Republicans an edge in the state House.
It's like a cartoon, where the rubble keeps falling after the landslide... Posted by Orrin Judd at November 8, 2002 3:13 PM
Comments
Not just a veteran-- he's the House Majority Leader. If he lost, he lost to the guy who knocked him off in the Republican banner year of 1994, but whom Baddour defeated in the rematch in 1996.
Posted by: John Thacker at November 8, 2002 3:12 PM