Voting In A One-Party State Is Heartbreaking
<p>This was a historic week in my state: Alabama elected a female U.S. Senator for the first time. It’s the kind of step toward equal representation I’d normally cheer. But I’m not celebrating.</p>
<p>It’s not that I didn’t expect the Trump-backed Katie Britt to replace Sen. Richard Shelby, whose chief of staff she had been. And it’s not that I thought she had a stellar opponent in Will Boyd, an engineer and Baptist minister. Like most voters, I knew little about him. Britt apparently declined to debate Boyd, and his small war chest — less than $100,000 compared with <a href="https://www.fox10tv.com/2022/11/09/making-history-britt-declares-herself-mama-mission-she-cruises-senate-victory/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">her $9 million</a> — limited his ability to get his message out.</p>
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