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check for "lawmaker" #1

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gka opened this issue Jul 23, 2015 · 1 comment

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gka commented Jul 23, 2015

if someone is referred to as "lawmaker", it is very likely to be an anonymous source

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gka commented Jul 23, 2015

sometimes, this is not the case though:

A white lawmaker says he gave watermelons to people in his central Mississippi House district, and his black challenger says doing so promoted racial stereotypes.

First-term Democratic Rep. Brad Oberhousen of Byram tells The Clarion-Ledger that he gave the melons to several people for their Fourth of July gatherings.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/07/22/us/ap-us-campaign-watermelons.html

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