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19. Every candidate in my coming municipal election is left-leaning

Reply to The Mouth (Reply #14)

Mon Oct 8, 2018, 02:47 PM

Oct 2018

Every one of them, in their write-ups this weekend in the paper, said they were pro-development. Some of them couched it in the term "smart" development, but they still want to bring in more people and business and turn what was a nice, quiet (and inexpensive) area close to the regional center into another traffic congested, noisy suburb. It looks like the wife and I will be moving next year.

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