Submitted by Mark Harmon on Wed, 2007/01/31 - 11:35am
Our five-minute break is dragging on in the battle of the Fourth District. I'm trying to support good candidates and avoid all the less-reputable activities. The intrigues will make a great book, tentative title. Crashing the Commission. --Mark Harmon
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Thank you
Mark..thank you for voting your conscience. The rest is going with the tide
Agreed
Yes, thank you for using your conscience. It must be sickening to be sitting there.
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