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GOP state House Speaker Tim Moore and state House Majority Leader John Bell encouraged Cotham to rejoin the legislature, per The New York Times.
Tricia Cotham, a Democrat who supported abortion rights, was encouraged to run for a state House seat by powerful Republicans. After she was elected, she joined them and delivered a G.O.P. supermajority.
A former aide says Rep. Tricia Cotham was mad that Democrats and Planned Parenthood didn't support her enough considering her pro-choice credentials. So she became a Republican.
The state legislator from Mecklenburg County says Democrats drove her away. Her former allies are puzzled—and say she doesn’t seem to be the same person.
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In the office of longtime Baltimore Sheriff John Anderson, it was all hands on deck during campaign season — including his employees, some of whom donated to, worked for and were paid by his campaign.