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repdan 
justdan
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Posted on: Mar. 31 2004,2:42 pm |
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It did not come from me! 80% for anything would be a huge number to reach.
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carpe ductem.....remember we're all in this together..I'm pull'n for you.
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| Post Number: 92
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Jesus Juice
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Posted on: Mar. 31 2004,5:17 pm |
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Now it apears Waseca is jumping onto the local sales tax bandwagon. Waseca is proposing 1/2 percent to raise money for a new swimming pool, movie theater & lake clean up.
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| Post Number: 93
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Liberal
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Posted on: Mar. 31 2004,11:13 pm |
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Karen Trow sent me a letter using snail mail. I'd post the text of the letter but it's like four pages and her printer must have been running out of ink so my OCR software wouldn't read it.
The Cliff notes version said "Mr. Hayson some people told me you slandered me and called me a liar on the forum...."
(how many times do we have to tell people that slander is spoken and libel is written).
She also says she isn't use to people telling her that her articles are full of lies and baseless assumptions. (obviously she doesn't write much.)
In her letter she tries to back up the claims made in her Tribune article and falls way short. For instance she tells me that Iowa isn't happy with the water we are sending them, she bases this fact on attending an Iowater workshop and being an Iowater citizen monitor. (I guess one workshop and a couple of classes and you get to speak for a whole state)
She also tried to explain how over half our budget is provided by LGA, but, when I look at the finance departments report for last year it says.
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During 2003, the Finance department issued 4,830 accounts payable checks to pay for goods and services. This represents a decrease of 406 checks over the previous year. The total amount of these checks was $16,185,540. That is $1,285,932 more than was spent the previous year. Accounts payable checks were issued to 1,538 different
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We received $5,358,383 in LGA last year which is not even close to half of $16,185,540.00.
To back up her argument that 50% of our budget comes from LGA she sends along a printout that shows 52% of our general revenue comes from LGA.
She also mentioned a guy she met at a symposium on civility and civic dialogue named Grif Wigley. Mr. Wigley has made his living online since 1986 as an online community builder and he is "very much aware of of what is going on in Albert Lea on our forums" and she thought he could give me some instructions on how to make you people behave and use your real names. (I don't know if I can believe the whole Mr. Wigley story though, I don't think Al Gore had even invented the internet yet in 86.)
She closed the letter telling me that she hoped I would raise the bar on the forum, make you people use you real names and make sure you stick to the facts. (isn't that ironic)
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The people are masters of both Congress and courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it!
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shaker
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Posted on: Mar. 31 2004,11:33 pm |
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What WAS the question asked, and WHO were the people that were asked? It sure as hell wasen't Me or for that matter anyone I know, o well, business as usual in Albert Lea. Keep your heads buried in the sand folks and just bitch when you get your tax statement. Whatever you do don't take the time to go to county or city meetings, you will all get just the kind of goverment you deserve(like what we have now)
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| Post Number: 95
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minnow
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Posted on: Mar. 31 2004,11:45 pm |
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Can someone tell me who these Trows are? I keep hearing the name Tony Trow...now Karen Trow. Who are the Trow's? Do they hold elective office? Who are they?
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Liberal
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Posted on: Apr. 01 2004,12:20 am |
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She included 2 photocopied pages of the sales tax study that she claims proves her point that the people would vote yes for a sales tax.
So she apparently speaks for the entire state of Iowa on issues of water quality and she can tell us how future votes will turn out.
 Download attachment [ PDF Document ]
Number of downloads: 61
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The people are masters of both Congress and courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert it!
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| Post Number: 97
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sick of it
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Posted on: Apr. 01 2004,9:30 am |
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who are the trow's?
i'll tel you who the trow's are
the trow's are a couple of retirement age that have come back to albert lea to try and awaken the old style of government here anyone that has lived around albert lea long enough should remember his father and his group of good old boys drinking at the country club while making laws up. If you go way back to tony's father or grandfather you will also find that he married his own cousin. they always say that people around here are inbred i guess they are not far off from the truth
The trow's are involved in dal and a few other groups that are hell bent on raising your taxes for their own benefit.
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minnow
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Posted on: Apr. 01 2004,5:49 pm |
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Well, that makes sense because their actions prove exactly that. They don't appear satisfied with their own money and seem as if they're always leering over at mine.
AL must be a trash magnet. Even the old trash comes back to trash it up...
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Grinning_Dragon
rideo draconigena
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Posted on: Apr. 01 2004,9:52 pm |
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| Quote | | She also mentioned a guy she met at a symposium on civility and civic dialogue named Grif Wigley. Mr. Wigley has made his living online since 1986 as an online community builder and he is "very much aware of of what is going on in Albert Lea on our forums" and she thought he could give me some instructions on how to make you people behave and use your real names. (I don't know if I can believe the whole Mr. Wigley story though, I don't think Al Gore had even invented the internet yet in 86.) |
As 7 of 9 would say about the tax, "It will FAIL, your attempts will be futile"
Sorry but this lady is full of Sh!te, online since 86? eighty fricken six? RRIIIIGGGHT.
I also cannot find any reference to this so-called Mr, Wigley. If he had made his living online there would be write up all over the NET. She's just PO'd cause she cannot tell who is who. Second of all, how in the hell could you determine if someone's name was real or not? Cannot be done. I post sometimes on the Star Rag Tribune, and one requirement is the use of your real name, I don't use my real name, and I have been posting there for years.
Here's a little History lesson for dat dumb biatch.
Now if you will excuse me I have to go drop Trow. 
pun intended
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*SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS / MOLON LABE / Se Defendendo
memoria of cado frater ,Semper fidelis
*The object of war is NOT to DIE for YOUR Country, but to make the OTHER BASTARD DIE for HIS...Patton
My Constitutional Rights trump your dead.
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sick of it
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Posted on: Apr. 02 2004,8:44 am |
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the trash that comes out of her mouth is typical when something doesn't go the trows way they will usualy twist the fact or just flat out lie to make it seem that they are right and everyone backs them.
what a couple of losers they are a shinning example of modern day aristocrats oh for a barel of tar and a bucket of feathers.
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