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rurallib

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4. I suspect Republicans were not expecting that any local official would

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Mon Jul 6, 2020, 02:18 PM

Jul 2020

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even attempt to issue such an order. Plus they probably thought they had it covered with some other local initiative quashing they could do.

Broderson is a tough cookie. However, they still have that gawd awful city manager that tried to get her fired once before. IIRC the city attorney was in cahoots with the city manager.

I have kind of lost touch with the city of Muscatine since we dropped off the central committee.

ETA - The city manager is gone and they have no city attorney, so my memory was faulty. Just talked to a friend who lives near Muscy. He said there was a rather hostile crowd at the announcement yesterday.

Do these people want to die?

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