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25. I have to stand up for my part of the state

Wed Feb 15, 2012, 07:36 AM

Feb 2012

(at least a little). I live in Quincy, which is about as west-central as you can get. It isn't really the wasteland that some are describing here - we have a community theater, a symphony/chorale, and a decent art scene for a town our size. It is relatively inexpensive to live here. We also have a thriving historic preservation group, and several homes with historic and architectural significance.

The bad - the democratic party is hanging on by it's fingernails here. The very vocal tea party is posturing. We haven't passed a school referendum in years, and we tend to run school superintendents out of town. This is very much a "teachers make big bucks and get 3 months off" kind of area. That idiot Bobby Schilling is our Congressional representative, and his buddy Aaron Schock is in the next district.

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I have to stand up for my part of the state WCIL Feb 2012 #25

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