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State Senate: Saland's 32-year political career likely ending

Republican state Sen. Steve Saland.

Photo credit: Handout | Republican state Sen. Steve Saland.

Steve Saland's three-decade-long legislative career hung in the balance Wednesday as unofficial results in the hard-fought 41st District state Senate race showed him trailing Democrat Terry Gipson by 1,600 votes.

With all 269 precincts counted, Gipson had nearly 44 percent to Saland's 42 percent. Conservative candidate Neil Di Carlo won 14 percent of the vote. Still to be counted were 6,000...

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