incoming freshman democrats
I've been trying to assemble just a capsule biography of all the Dems who flipped a seat, and reading about Teresa Benitez-Thompson—the first Democrat elected in Reno since it got its own seat in 1981—I saw that she was a former Miss Nevada (finished 4th at Miss America that year). It turns out that she seems *wildly* impressive. https://thenevadaindependent.com/article...
Here's her doing a monologue from The Laramie Project, about the murder of Matthew Shepard, as her talent performance at the 2003 Miss America pageant. 2003! https://www.youtube.com/watch...