Alexander gives image of being less-polished Staff and Wire Reports Posted on December 9, 2002 MONROE - Soft-spoken and reserved, Rodney Alexander doesn't seem like a typical, polished politician, but he's been in political life for three decades. The 56-year-old Democrat has been a state legislator since 1988. Before that, he was a Jackson Parish police juror, beginning in 1972. The Quitman resident squeaked out a 518-vote victory over Republican Lee Fletcher of Monroe for the 5th District congressional seat that covers Northeast and Central Louisiana, according to complete but unofficial returns from the election held Saturday. The official count...