Tarrant County Democratic Party Elects Woman of Achievement As Interim Democratic County Chair

Deborah Whitlock Peoples, new Tarrant County 

Democratic Chair  with out-going County Chair,  Steven

Maxwell.

By Faith Chatham - April 27, 2013

In a highly contested five candidate special election, April 20th,  retired Vice-President-General Manager Dallas-Fort Worth Market AT&T, Deborah Whitlock Peoples was elected to fill the unexpired term of Steven Maxwell as County Chair of the Tarrant County Democratic Party.

Ms. Peoples, sister of Fort Worth Democratic political activist Mary Ellen Hicks and aunt of former Fort Worth City Council Member and candidate for U.S. Congressional District 33 Kathleen Hicks, has political activism in her D.N.A.

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"Tarrant County is the only urban county in Texas that is not blue," said Jim Riddlesperger, a political science professor at TCU. "The rest have become Democratic -- Houston, Dallas, Austin, San Antonio and El Paso. Tarrant County is the last of the red [urban] counties."  Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/02/16/4626101/tarrant-county-democrats-prepare.html#storylink=cpy

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