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      <![CDATA[I don't believe that any of the suburbs around Memphis or the county itself have a chance of surviving or prospering as long as the city is failing. We really need to get it together if the Memphis area is ever going to achieve what it is capable of.
        
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      <![CDATA[The Charter Commission members were given an impossible task. A C Wharton, Myron Lowery, Deidre Malone and others rushed the community into this process without doing sufficient review to determine whether merger of governments had any realistic chance of passage at this point.
        
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      <![CDATA[Jim Rout was a Rep and most of the Shelby County Commission were Reps when they ran this county's debt up to ridiculous levels because they wouldn't say no to Jackie Welch and his merry band of developers. Tommy, it took a Democratic AC Wharton to get the debt ship turned around in Shelby County.
        
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      <![CDATA[Tommy Volinchak for Mayor !!!!
        
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      <![CDATA[WHOA.............. I thought we were just talking consolidation here.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Jeff]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[What we need is a ten year study. I'm here to do it.
        
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      <![CDATA[B - I love that show.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[SensibleModerate]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[As long as County residents feel entitled to City level services at rural level taxes, we will be hamstrung. My Urban Planning Profs in Grad School always said that services are best allotted by population density tempered by geographic realities without imaginary lines impeding their delivery.
        
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      <![CDATA[Scott, Give me that "monkey wrench". Now, sit down and behave yourself.
        
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      <![CDATA[TV = arrested development.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[John Branston]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[All: The panel wants to hear from you, really. Last three hearings are July 20 at Methodist South Hospital, July 21 at Collierville's Harrell Theater, and July 22 at the Ed Rice Community Center in Frayser.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[sbanbury]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Someday we will consolidate and we should, but not the way it's being planned now. Under the current ReBuild built proposal, I'd still be paying more taxes than my friends in the county BUT be sharing the vote as to how to spend it equally with them.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Jack]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Carol - what possible evidence do you have to suggest that suddenly we will elect "new leaders"? It will be the same politicians that are running the show now.
        
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      <![CDATA[I really think that the drive for consolidation is a hail mary for a lot of people. The cost argument is not a good one; the new consolidated government will have the same number of employess as the 2 previous governments because of the civil service protections they have built in.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:45:31 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Carol Jean]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[You can analyze the similarities or differences between Memphis and Shelby County all you want, but the fact remains Nashville keeps getting what we should be getting if we weren't being strangled economically by this two-headed monster we call city and county governments. I don't believe consolidation is the cure to all of our problems, but we need to turn the boat quickly before we hit an iceburg and sink.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:42:13 -0500</pubDate>
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      <![CDATA[blah
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Packrat]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Personally, I don't think the fire department should be exempt. Cut out some administrative fat, and don't tell me there isn't any to cut.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:35:34 -0500</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[38103]]></author>
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      <![CDATA["We are going to raise your taxes, and nothing will change." Not exactly a world class sales pitch.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Tommy Volinchak]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[John,<br>
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you just gave me a headache. Great research and analysis, but nonetheless headache indcucing.<br>
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Here is the problem I have with consolodation and it is simple.
        
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    <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 03:04:42 -0500</pubDate>
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