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53tammy

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3. Glad this one went the right way,,
Sun Nov 17, 2013, 08:40 AM
Nov 2013

Lafourche Parish voters rejected by a 8-point margin a proposal to reroute a portion of the parish library system's property-tax revenue toward construction of a new detention center.
The measure failed by a 4,601-to-3,958 vote (54-46 percent), according to complete but unofficial results. After months of pointed debate, the library-jail tax swap brought 15.1 percent of the parish's registered voters to the polls. http://www.tri-parishtimes.com/news/article_77736346-4f41-11e3-9a77-001a4bcf887a.html

You would have thought this would have been a no brainier, but almost 4000 people would somehow like to see jails instead of a library???
What is wrong with this country!

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