Updated Day 293

Author: mkiser

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 * **The first openly transgender woman of color was elected to public office**. Andrea Jenkins won a seat on the Minneapolis City Council. ([The Hill](http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/359304-andrea-jenkins-becomes-first-transgender-woman-of-color-elected-to-public) / [NBC News](https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/andrea-jenkins-makes-history-first-openly-black-trans-person-elected-n818966))
 
+* **In Virginia, Danica Roem was first openly transgender person to be elected and seated in a state legislature** after beating a 13-term incumbent who called himself Virginia’s "chief homophobe." ([Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/danica-roem-will-be-vas-first-openly-transgender-elected-official-after-unseating-conservative-robert-g-marshall-in-house-race/2017/11/07/d534bdde-c0af-11e7-959c-fe2b598d8c00_story.html))
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 * **The first woman was elected mayor in Manchester, New Hampshire**. Joyce Craig is the first Democrat to be elected mayor of Manchester in 14 years. ([New Hampshire Union Leader](http://www.unionleader.com/Manchester-elects-its-first-female-mayor))
 
 * **In Maine, voters approved a ballot measure to expand Medicaid coverage**. Some 80,000 adults will qualify under the expansion. Maine will be the 32nd state to expand the program, but the first where voters – not governors or legislators – have directly authorized an expansion. ([Politico](https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/07/maine-voters-medicaid-obamacare-244675) / [New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/us/maine-medicaid-healthcare.html))