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Old 04-22-2013, 09:56 PM   #17
CaramonLS
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Originally Posted by Slava View Post

Frankly, the fact that more people don't get involved and help any candidate is the only despicable thing. Most of these municipal campaigns are run on shoe-string budgets and with very little help from the public. Its easy to get the candidates that they want elected with little input from the majority of the voting public.
So someone in industry offers to double their municipal funds and this is democracy in action for you? Yes, they might run on shoe string budgets, but that is one of the better things about local politicians. People can tune out a lot of the advertising BS and focus more on fact IMHO.
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