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“You tell them for me,” Mr. Gooch said to Mr. Wickens, “that 200 years later, in 1990 in Washington, Virginia, we are keeping a democracy.”

But the final word on the subject came at the close of the meeting from Diane Bruce, a county native who serves as the clerk of the county and its Circuit Court. She called the incident “the most despicable form of old-time politics. I am really distressed. It is the type of politics we have all heard about - and that we thought was a thing of the past. But to use one of my father’s expressions, I guess there are still some old sore-tailed cats in town.”

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