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      <![CDATA[That is the entire point. Stall, stall, delay, and stall so we can run the end around insuring that our schools are protected forever from those inner-city thugs.
        
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      <![CDATA[Jack, he is wrong b/c that board no longer exists. The Memphis City Council and that Board are not in any legal sense the same entity.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Memphidelity]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[And if you broke that, apologies. Keeping up, not keeping score.
        
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      <![CDATA[Omnivore.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Jackson Baker]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Memphidelity, rather. My bad.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:42:12 -0600</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Jackson Baker]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Read the companion article, "Goins' Invoking of Long-Gone 'Board of Commissioners,' etc." Memphis fidelity. It makes this very point.
        
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          <a href="http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/Profile?oid=1167204">Jackson Baker</a>]]>
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    <author><![CDATA[Memphidelity]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Per the Appeal, the law cited by Goins is a 1961 law relating to "commissioners." Does the 1966 change from commission to council form of government not come in to play?
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:28:26 -0600</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[sbanbury]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[The longer they stall the vote, the more time they have to legislate around it.
        
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    <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 06:44:01 -0600</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Good Habits]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Well, it seems that we only obey those laws or interpretations that fit our agendas.
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 20:00:58 -0600</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Jack]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Well if his reading of the statute is wrong, that's another issue entirely. So how is he wrong?
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 17:00:53 -0600</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Packrat]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Interpretation: I read it one way, you read it another, someone else reads it another way.
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:55:26 -0600</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Jack]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Let's assume politics is the only reason the state official went searching for the law. When he finds a law that is spot on point, what relevance do his motivations have?
        
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          <a href="http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/Profile?oid=1165410">Jack</a>]]>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:42:23 -0600</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[tomguleff]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[The city council now has leverage to get that quart of ice cream from MCS. No "upstanding" politico would allow that small issue of $57 million to get in the way of moving this forward.
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:38:57 -0600</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Packrat]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[jack, it's political. come on.
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:31:38 -0600</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Jack]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Dug Deep to find it? It's a statute.
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:07:42 -0600</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Packrat]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Looks like the GOP is coming through strong for its suburban constituency.
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:43:44 -0600</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[TJonesMfs]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Republicans just have to play their games. Every Memphis should now demand the right to vote.
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:26:15 -0600</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Brad Watkins]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Well....hmm...back in august 08 when the Memphis Charter Commission completed it's work there was a similar procedural fracas that was quickly abated. the understanding was that this was purely for the purpose of procedure and the council would take no actions to alter the work of the Commission.
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:13:25 -0600</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[Doubting Thomas]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Pay attention to Strickland's position on MCS surrendering the charter.
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:11:06 -0600</pubDate>
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    <author><![CDATA[LeftWingCracker]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[More stalling tactics, but it does not matter. THAT WALL IS COMING DOWN.
        
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    <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:03:13 -0600</pubDate>
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