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Perhaps the two major parties can allow their members to deviate from business casual, since they control the overwhelming majority of elected offices.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

Insiders say that task was made all the more difficult by the great care Murrell had taken to disguise what he was doing from the SNP's auditors, officials and elected representatives.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

Rae Huang, a minister and housing rights advocate, said if elected mayor she would immediately replace McDonnell with someone who has the “ability to really reimagine what public safety really looks like.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026

Gov. Bill Clements, the first Republican elected to statewide office in Texas since Reconstruction, appointed him to the Trinity River Authority, according to his obituary.

From Salon • May 23, 2026

He told Americans that his preference was to complete the term to which he’d been elected, but that he longer had enough support to continue.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin