In South Dakota, Secretary of State Jason Gant said more than two dozen cities and school districts informed him they were delaying elections for a week.
Reuben Gant, who heads the chamber of commerce in Greenwood, a black district near Osage Hills, says that all this could lead to a broader comeback in Tulsa's depressed north side.
On an out-of-town trip Carlsbad state senator Joseph Gant Jr. read a wire- service story -- by chance -- about the Lyons fiasco and got on the telephone to other Carlsbad influentials.