"When she got her teeth into something, it was like she couldn’t let go. She would come every year with a bill to keep guns out of libraries … it wouldn’t even get out of committee, but she wouldn’t give up."
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Mamye BaCote
Mamye Edmondson BaCote (February 18, 1939 – December 14, 2020) was an American politician of the Democratic Party. She was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates, representing the 95th District from 2004 to 2016.
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