51.   Instead, the issue of early retirement emerged as the unlikely battleground for the first major standoff between the governor and Republican legislators.

52.   It is also the constituency of Richard Morgan, a conservative Republican state legislator known for hard-edged legislative tactics.

53.   It would also create new challenges for several other Republican legislators, whose new districts would include many more black and Hispanic voters, who tend to favor Democrats.

54.   It would also create new challenges to several other Republican legislators, whose new districts would include many more blacks and Hispanics, who traditionally favor Democrats.

55.   Jamie Van Fossen, a Republican state legislator from Iowa is running for re-election.

56.   Knotts was one of the few Republican legislators who supported McCain in the primary.

57.   On Tuesday, a Republican county legislator named Thomas Morahan defeated a Democratic county legislator named Kenneth Zebrowski for an open seat in the New York State Senate.

58.   One of them is Deb Gullett, a Republican state legislator in Phoenix.

59.   Over the next months, Republican legislators claim to have requested numerous special sessions.