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NJCher

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37. googled it

Fri May 29, 2015, 07:11 PM

May 2015

Like Worried senior, I found it via a search engine, but the reason I was looking was that I was angry about bush stealing the election, so I teamed up with a lawyer from NYC and we commissioned buses to go to D.C. to protest. We did several protests, filling as many as 40 buses per protest.

I tried to go it alone in NJ, but there weren't enough people who got it here back at that time, so I had to combine forces w/NYC.

I was hoping to post here at DU about the buses, but it turned out we were overwhelmed with people who wanted to go, so I don't know if I even posted about it.

Been here ever since. By reading this forum, you will know what's happening way before anyone else does. I read GD, but rarely post there. I'm more a Lounge/Cooking & Baking/Gardening type of person. Discussions get heated, but I can't get too carried away with any of it. Live and let live, and whatever your opinion is, you're entitled to it--that's my take on it, anyway.

Cher

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