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Crowded field vies for District 16 seat
by Michael DeVault - posted E-mail Story E-mail Story | Print Story Print Story 
Samuel Jackson came to Bastrop five years ago because of a family illness.

Today he is among four candidates vying for the state House of Representatives, District 16 seat.

"I saw something unique that I really liked in the Bastrop area," said Jackson, a Republican. "Minus the polarization, I saw it as some place a person could retire."

Jackson is a retired Marine and lived in Los Angeles, Ca., before returning home to care for a relative. He worked as a general contractor while in California.

If elected, Jackson said he would work to drop District 16's stigma as a minority district.
"Minority districts really get very little," Jackson said.
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