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56. She was grooming him for a presidential run.Taking the Santa Barbara US Congressional seat was step1

Sun Mar 23, 2014, 05:52 PM

Mar 2014

They spent the most money evah to unseat a 20-year Republican incumbent, Bob Lagomarsino, who understood that local issues like the environment were not restricted to imaginary hippies. The Huffingtons were clueless. Anyway, they only lasted one term.

As for her beardness: that she was.

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I've been on this site since Ariana Huffington owned it in the early 1990's [View all] Stargazer99 Mar 2014 OP

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She was grooming him for a presidential run.Taking the Santa Barbara US Congressional seat was step1 Hekate Mar 2014 #56

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