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Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney has been removed from her leadership role in the House of Representatives’ Republican Caucus, but waiting in the wings to replace Cheney is North Country Rep. Elise Stefanik, currently the favorite to take on the roll of Conference Chair, the GOP’s third-highest ranking member in the House.
Despite her double-digit margin of victory in the 2020 election, Elise Stefanik remains a polarizing figure in the North Country.
At a gas station outside of Plattsburgh, NCPR asked area residents what they think of Stefanik. Many did not want to discuss politics, but those who did expressed the full range of opinions on her time in office and the possibility of a leadership role.
Wyoming Congresswoman Liz Cheney has been removed from her leadership role in the House of Representatives’ Republican Caucus, withNorth Country Congresswoman Elise Stefanik set to replace her.
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Richie Millidge had been searching for his birth mother for almost all of his 53 years. When he found her, he discovered she had been searching for him, too.
The two spoke for the first time on Feb. 21 after a DNA test helped Millidge connect the dots to find his mother. Days later he met his three half-siblings.
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But before that could happen, he had something difficult to tell his newfound family: he had spent 12 years in prison after he was convicted in 1998 for a string of armed robberies in British Columbia.
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Richie Millidge had been searching for his birth mother for almost all of his 53 years. When he found her, he discovered she had been searching for him, too.
On July 26, 1967, Sandy Hutton, then Sandy Jones and only 17 years old, had a baby boy in Montreal’s Royal Victoria Hospital. With great reluctance, she gave him up for adoption.
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“I really didn’t have much of a choice,” she said. But first she held the newborn for the first and last time.