2008

In 2008 Becky Miller was defeated in her re-election campaign. Her opponent, Ron Branson, worked with the Marchant family to pull up rumors and dirt on her personally and used it in the last 3 days of the election in a coordinated media attack. Ron Branson didn't have the connections to run a political hit of this nature, but the Marchant's did. Branson would serve one term and was shocked and surprised when Matthew Marchant announced in 2010 that he would seek to unseat Branson. They didn't want to risk a second loss to Miller, so they used Branson in a risky move and then abandoned him when he took office. Branson was easy for Marchant to defeat.