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“Oh, I thought it was the governor’s Contract with Virginia.”
“Milly, you’re confusing Virginia with Washington.”
“If the governor is so much in favor of local control, why did he want the state to spend so much on Disney and build so many prisons? Is that local control?”
“I don’t think so. But maybe it’s local control if he builds a prison in every county. That way each county cm control its local inmates.”
“Does the budget include money for spittoons in the state house? After all, the governor chews tobacco so he’s entitled to maintain local control in that ana.”
“I think that anybody who chews tobacco should maintain local control, Mildred. Originally the bill required all counties to maintain spittoons in their courthouses. But the General Assembly voted it down because it wan another unfunded local mandate.”
“But Buck, perhaps spittoons aren’t such a bad idea. At least Spittoons would cost us less in income taxes than Disney or prisons. Any maybe you can use them later for sludge”
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