Hawaii State Representative Elle Cochran announced Monday that she is leaving the Democratic Party and joining the Republicans, telling Newsweek that her own caucus treated her like an outcast the moment she stopped being a rubber stamp.
Cochran’s switch brings the Hawaii House Republican Caucus to 10 members in the 51-seat chamber, its largest showing in nearly two decades. In a state where the Democratic Party has held an iron grip on government for generations, even modest Republican gains register as seismic.
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