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   From: bks@panix.com   
      
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    | Taylor Rehmet, an Air Force veteran and union leader who   
    | pulled off a stunning upset on Saturday in a deep red Texas   
    | State Senate district, did not grow up focused on politics.   
    |   
    | His father was an airplane mechanic. His mother worked in a   
    | beauty salon. Both were Republicans. Mr. Rehmet, 33,   
    | started to think about politics -- and to drift to the   
    | Democratic Party -- only after he landed a job at a factory   
    | in his 20s and began reaping union benefits and workplace   
    | protections. He came to believe that more Americans should   
    | have the same.   
    |   
    | "If we had this, the middle class would be stronger," Mr.   
    | Rehmet said in an interview last month in an empty union   
    | hall in Fort Worth, across from the Lockheed Martin fighter   
    | jet plant where he works as a machinist. Occasionally the   
    | sound of an F-35 test flight shook the building.   
    | ...   
      
      
       --bks   
      
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