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Make mine a vote against Californication

Saturday, October 15, 2011 12:01am
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I am voting no on I-1183 simply because I’m sick and tired of this place becoming more and more like the sleazy, festering scab that is Los Angeles, California.

Dan Palmer
Lynnwood

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