In a desperate bid to win a Tennessee legislative seat in 1998, Tommy Low Tax Looper murdered his opponent, popular Democratic incumbent Tommy Burks.
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Lost in the discussion of Blagojevich’s sins is another fact: the end of Blago marked the end of the Illinois Democratic Party’s effective competition downstate. Looking at the trends from 1998 to 2006 shows a clear shift and a fascinating look at the rapid decline in the state’s ancestrally Democratic strongholds.