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TexasTowelie

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2. I doubt that any of them will care.

Reply to abqtommy (Reply #1)

Fri Mar 26, 2021, 05:29 AM

Mar 2021

Those settlements are paid with taxpayer dollars. Unless some elected official believes that they are going to lose their position, it goes down as a cost of doing business.

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Proposal would pay exonerees $50,000 per year served [View all] TexasTowelie Mar 2021 OP

$50,000 a year is Chump Change. Make it a real figure, like One Million a year. That'll abqtommy Mar 2021 #1

I doubt that any of them will care. TexasTowelie Mar 2021 #2

Oh they care. They won't admit it but they care. Anytime a minority receives anything of value it joetheman Mar 2021 #3

+1 live love laugh Mar 2021 #4