Senator Newhouse Decides To Go To War. Navy Reserve pilot, Joe Newhouse was elected last year to replace a termed-out Mike Mazzei. Mazzei had perhaps the worst attendance record in the history of Oklahoma's legislative branch. Physical ailments were the ongoing nature of Mazzei's years long preoccupation. But Newhouse, while being perhaps the most able-bodied in the upper chamber, is continuing to serve the US military, even while he is a member of the Oklahoma Senate. Just this week, Newhouse released a statement, saying that his reserve unit is due to be activated for anti-terror service in northern Africa. Newhouse concedes that his state government service would likely grant him a deferral from the deployment, but he characterizes this as a moral duty, and he does not wish to exempt himself from an obligation to serve in the capacity that the federal government has paid and trained him for. But that's little consolation to a district which has lost effective representation for most of the last ten years. |
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