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Second Democrat files for state Senate District 11 special election By RANDY KREHBIEL World Staff Writer TulsaWorld.com |

OKLAHOMA CITY A second Democrat filed Tuesday for the vacancy in state Senate District 11, guaranteeing an April 7 special election.

Heather Nash, 43, of Tulsa, joined state Rep. Kevin Matthews in seeking the seat that was vacated by Jabar Shumate earlier this month. Matthews has held a House seat since 2012.

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Nash is North Tulsa Youth Coordinator for Youth Services of Tulsa and previously worked for the Red Cross.

Filing for the position ends Wednesday.

A general election, if needed, will be held June 9.

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HARRISBURG, Pa. Democrat Tom Wolf took office Tuesday as Pennsylvania's 47th chief executive, portraying himself as a political outsider while appealing for cooperation in a divided state government plagued by budget deficits and partisan stalemate.

Ex-governors and lawmakers were among the more than 4,000 people that Wolf's office estimated to be at the ceremony outside the state Capitol building.

"I am an unconventional leader," said Wolf, a former businessman. "I may be the first governor of Pennsylvania who ever operated a forklift, ever managed a hardware store. I volunteered for the Peace Corps. I ran a business."

Wolf, 65, outlined his goals in an inaugural address that used positive, general terms ending educational disparities in public schools, creating good-paying jobs and providing "a government that works" but gave no more specifics to ambitious goals that he laid out during his campaign.

He did not mention the obstacle of a projected $2 billion-plus revenue gap for the fiscal year that starts July 1 or his proposals that include levying a new tax on the natural gas industry, restructuring the state income tax and increasing public school funding.

"Nothing is more essential than working together to make sure that every child in Pennsylvania has access to a great education and that all teachers have the resources they need to deliver that great education," Wolf said. "Our schools must be our highest priority."

Throughout his swearing-in and speech, gas drilling protesters chanted, "Ban fracking now!" Eight people were arrested and charged with disorderly conduct at the inauguration, police said.

Wolf, who ran his family's building-products distribution company in York County for nearly 30 years, beat Republican Gov. Tom Corbett after plowing $10 million of his own money into a highly effective TV advertising blitz. He is scheduled to present his budget proposals in an address March 3 to the Legislature.

Corbett attended the inauguration along with former governors Tom Ridge and Mark Schweiker, both Republicans. Former Democratic Gov. Ed Rendell introduced Wolf at the ceremony.

GOP majority leaders in both houses of the Legislature have said they want to curb rising costs, such as public employee pensions, or privatize the state-run system of liquor and wine sales before they would consider raising taxes.

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The U.S. Senate race in California next year could be the first in modern state history with no Republican candidate, but thats not necessarily ideal for Democrats.

The contest to succeed retiring Sen. Barbara Boxer, a Democrat, will be the first Senate election without an incumbent conducted under the top-two primary system approved in 2010. Under this system, all candidates run in a nonpartisan primary, and the two who receive the most votes face off in the general election regardless of party affiliation.

With Republicans comprising just 28 percent of the statewide electorate, there is a good chance that the top two candidates will be Democrats.

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That could be a problem.

The California Democratic Party is increasingly divided between two camps: left-wing progressives and pro-business centrists. That rift would be further exposed in an all-Democrat election.

Given that the cost of the race is expected to hit a record-breaking $100 million, California Democrats could spend a fortune slinging mud at fellow Democrats rather than Republicans.

Indeed, the best-case scenario for Democrats may be one in which a Republican squeaks onto the general election ballot. That would give the race a partisan cast that Democrats could win easily at a much lower cost.

Dan Schnur, a former Republican strategist who now heads the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at the University of Southern California, noted that the states business community spent millions of dollars this year backing centrist Democratic candidates in legislative races.

A Nov. 23 analysis by the Sacramento Bee found that seven of the 10 Democratic Assembly and Senate candidates running in open seats who were funded by pro-business, independent-expenditure committees won their races.

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