BY FROMA HARROP SALT LAKE CITY – American flags and lush spring grass lined the long drive of a Mormon meetinghouse here in the desert capital of Utah. Television trucks parking outside. Utahans were gathering last week for the funeral of Bill Orton, a Democrat who had represented an especially conservative congressional district in this most Republican state for three terms. Orton’s unlikely career included a first run in 1990 as a middle-age bachelor in […]
Throwing Out Stereotypes
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