After 9 hours and 11 rounds of voting, Democrats pick new leader in Arizona House of Representatives
Rep. Lupe Contreras is the new House Democratic leader at the state Capitol, elected in a marathon meeting that also reconfigured the minority party’s leadership team.
It took nine hours and 11 rounds of voting Wednesday for the 28 Democrats present to elect a leader, evoking parallels to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s bid among Republicans to win his position in the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this year…