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irrigation ditch on one ranch and then turn around and cut funding educational programs that help provide reading materials to visually-handicapped students, something is wrong." Harris, along with the other four
Democratic candidates, ended up winning the election unopposed, as no Republicans filed to run for State House in the county. He ran for re-election in 1990, arguing that "the average working person needs a voice in the Legislature." Only one Republican, Jay Lyon, challenged the county's five Democratic state legislators. Owing to the reliably Democratic voting behavior of Sweetwater County, Harris and the county's other Democratic legislators were all re-elected.
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for re-election. In launching his campaign, he also announced that he would be retiring from his State Senate seat two years before the end of his term. He attacked
Maxfield for mismanaging the office, drawing attention to a data breach and the subsequent awarding of a no-bid security contract to a
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Republican majority in the legislature voted down the proposed holiday, even after Harris and others backed a compromise to renamed the proposed holiday "Equality Day." He repeatedly pushed to legalize video gambling in the state, and successfully moved to enact new liability protections for
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Sweetwater County's five seats in the State House, arguing that the Republican majority in the state legislature had priorities inconsistent with the needs of the working class. "When they can spend a quarter of a million dollars to dig an
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hunters. On several occasions, however, Harris differed from the
Democratic line; though he was pro-choice, he supported an effort to require parental consent if minors sought abortions, strongly supported gun rights, and opposed a Democratic effort to reform the election code.
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Wyoming's method of electing state legislators in multi-member county-based districts, the state redrew its legislative districts in advance of the 1992 election. Harris wound up in House District 39, based in
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