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      <![CDATA[Talk about rhetoric and bigotry, you've got it in spades.
        
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      <![CDATA[PRESS RELEASE<br>
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2/6/12  SUPER BOWL SUNDAY<br>
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The Cry of Moses to the Pharao of Egypt: LET MY PEOPLE GO!<br>
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So we have heard all the media spin on this issue, the basis of which remains the same:  The American People have earned the right to request that their constitutional rights will be honored. therefore, we wish to cast our vote on the matter!
        
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      <![CDATA[Thank you Comanche Joe, it was indeed an agreement not a state law that was signed in 1998 when the state house was controlled by the Democrats. Even then, the City of Memphis violated constitutional rights of the people by not bringing this issue before the citizens for a vote.
        
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      <![CDATA[OTP please state the EXACT law that you believe will be violated by the MSDs.
        
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      <![CDATA[Homersimpson, you are mistaken. The supreme court also said that diversity can also be a compelling government interest and can be taken into consideration.
        
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      <![CDATA[OTP you have a problem with your educational funding belief. TN is one of two TOP states for addressing NCLB in terms of data collection.
        
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      <![CDATA[GWCarver,<br>
Did you realize that the Flyer changed your screen name retroactively/ex-post-facto? I think you should sue.
        
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      <![CDATA[formerly uhoh<br>
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Thanks Drift Boat. I thought I already tried that, but I didn't.
        
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      <![CDATA[Uhoh,<br>
That should have read edit your profile.
        
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      <![CDATA[Uhoh,<br>
Log on, go to your account/edit your account and change your screen name...I think.
        
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      <![CDATA[Just out of curiosity, does anyone know if it is possible to change your username here? I want to do that, but I really don't want to open up multiple accounts to do so.
        
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      <![CDATA[OTP, I'll be the first to acknowledge there are a lot of tools in Memphis government. During the battle over the schools I seriously thought AJ Wharton was dead until I saw him on a televised debate.
        
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      <![CDATA[Uhoh, I didn't say that Mark Norris was not smart, I just said he is stretching the law, hoping that it sticks. He knows that contracts, agreements, can't be undone by a retrogressive law.
        
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      <![CDATA[Post 13 was directed towards OTP. My apologies for failing to include that in the post.
        
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      <![CDATA[That was me who said Mark Norris was a smart lawyer. You of all people should know it is true, or are you still embracing the ex post facto argument?
        
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      <![CDATA[Awesomeberg, I understand what you are saying. I thought that Judge Mays would invalidate SB 25, but I was right on the central issue.
        
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      <![CDATA[Indeed flyhigh, all by himself, the great and powerful omnipotent OTP has singlehandedly turned Memphis from a paradise of uppoer middle class white people into a third world ghetto. Didn't have anything with white people not wanting to share political or economic power with black people and running away.
        
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      <![CDATA[You go, OTP! One day you will accomplish your dream of turning Memphis into a third-world ghetto.
        
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      <![CDATA[I can't find the actual wording of the Norris bill requiring a vote by those annexed, but it would be easy to amend the population limits in TCA 6-51-102 (a) (2) to include Shelby County. That would not be considered special legislation by the courts, or at least using population limits has been upheld numerous times in the past.<br>
I could be wrong about this so please correct me, but from a cursory reading of annexation law it appears that a municipality can annex across county lines as long as the annexation doesn't span time zones.
        
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      <![CDATA[OTP: "This is akin to the tiny towns law passed and ruled unconstitutional by the state courts."<br>
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The tiny towns law was ruled unconstitutional on a technicality, in that the title did not adequately describe the contents of the bill. The bill was an attempt to protect Hickory Wythe from annexation by Oakland.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Scott Banbury]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Now would be a good time for the City to enact serious development fees on future MLGW/City owned services in the reserve areas--make 'em pay through their noses to poo and/or water their lawn jockeys.
        
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      <![CDATA[Aren't there two bills in the hopper? The one most complained of here and another giving the folks about to be annexed the right to a separate vote on the annexation?
        
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      <![CDATA[I too felt that Mays would rule the other way. Although I see Mays' ruling more in terms of a mediation.
        
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      <![CDATA[If AC Wharton had only paid the 57 million dollar judgment to schools, we would not have to deal with these other problems from the Republicans in Nashville. But AC Wharton likes to pander to the Republicans in Nashville all the time.<br>
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Now his only solution to the problem is litigation.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[M_Awesomeberg]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[As I recall, many (mea culpa--et tu, OTP?) predicted that Judge Mays would invalidate the original Norris-Todd bill whose purpose was to throw a monkey wrench into the charter surrender/consolidation process.
        
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