Information: - Max Tatum Malone ( born March 3 , 1953 ) is the president of Malone Oil and Gas Exploration Company in Shreveport and a former Republican member of the Louisiana State Senate , in which he served from 1996 until January 14 , 2008 . Term - limited in the District 37 seat , which includes portions of Caddo and Bossier parishes in northwestern Louisiana , Malone could not seek a fourth term in the October 20 , 2007 , jungle primary . Among those who sought to succeed Malone were outgoing District 9 State Representative Billy Montgomery of Bossier City , who was term - limited himself as a state House member , and Montgomery 's former House colleague , B.L. '' Buddy '' Shaw , a retired Shreveport educator and school board member . Shaw defeated Montgomery , 57 - 43 percent . Malone 's Senate record reflects a conservative bent : 90 to 100 percent support from the pro-business interest group , the Louisiana Association of Business and Industry , 0 percent from Planned Parenthood of America , 100 percent from the Louisiana Family Forum , 77 percent from the Christian Coalition , and 22 percent from the Louisiana Environmental Action Network . Malone , however , has accumulated a 71 percent rating from the AFL - CIO and 60 percent from the Louisiana Association of Educators , the state 's largest teachers ' organization . Malone rarely voted to raise taxes and was given the nickname '' No Tax Max. '' Malone opposed the gaming industry . He rejected a proposed $ 50 million bailout for Harrah 's New Orleans casino . He also opposed permanent dockside gambling in exchange for an increased tax with the proceeds earmarked for teacher pay raises . - An oil is any neutral, nonpolar chemical substance that is a viscous liquid at ambient temperatures and is both hydrophobic (immiscible with water, literally "water fearing") and lipophilic (miscible with other oils, literally "fat loving"). Oils have a high carbon and hydrogen content and are usually flammable and surface active. - A liquid is a nearly incompressible fluid that conforms to the shape of its container but retains a (nearly) constant volume independent of pressure. As such, it is one of the four fundamental states of matter (the others being solid, gas, and plasma), and is the only state with a definite volume but no fixed shape. A liquid is made up of tiny vibrating particles of matter, such as atoms, held together by intermolecular bonds. Water is, by far, the most common liquid on Earth. Like a gas, a liquid is able to flow and take the shape of a container. Most liquids resist compression, although others can be compressed. Unlike a gas, a liquid does not disperse to fill every space of a container, and maintains a fairly constant density. A distinctive property of the liquid state is surface tension, leading to wetting phenomena. - Billy Wayne Montgomery, often known as Coach Montgomery (born July 7, 1937), is a former educator who represented the Bossier City-based District 9 in the Louisiana House of Representatives from 1988-2008. He was elected as a Democrat, but he switched affiliation to the Republican Party on October 3, 2006. After reading the paragraphs above, we are interested in knowing the entity with which 'max t. malone' exhibits the relationship of 'member of political party'. Find the answer from the choices below. Choices: - independent - republican party
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