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Crepuscular

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15. Well.......

Reply to Takket (Reply #10)

Mon Jan 18, 2016, 03:43 PM

Jan 2016

in all fairness, the emergency manager law was an act of the Legislature, it was not imposed by the Governor. The previous EM law that had been repealed by the 2012 referendum had been used by both Democrat and Republican Governors in the past.

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