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loyalsister

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6. This particular republican represents the distirct which houses the university

Reply to riversedge (Reply #2)

Fri Nov 13, 2015, 07:17 PM

Nov 2015

He got elected and re-elected by promising and bringing home the bacon. Then he started threatening to withhold funding leading to Loftin's fatal decision to revoke university hospital privileges required for the only abortion provider in the area to practice out of Planned Parenthood.

I suspect he has been trying to distance himself from the people's republic of Columbia (as some state legislators love to refer to us) now that he's running statewide.

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