And she was kind of a worker bee, you know, precinct chairman, then a county officer, then the state committee woman. She did all that sort of stuff. And They finally talked her into running for the state legislature in an area that was very heavily Democrat. And her first race was in 76. I was in graduate school. I lived immediately adjacent to her district, which sort of went around Norman and up into our hometown of Moore. (03:30–03:38)
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Asserts that Tom Cole's mother ran for the state legislature in a heavily Democratic area.
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