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Party Like It's 1999

An obscure rule change in 1999 allowed extortion rackets to prosper in the Statehouse. Lucky us.

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D.J. Byrnes
Aug 24, 2020
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I read the other day about Cleveland radio station WTAM reporter Kyle Cornell referred to Kamala Harris as “the first colored vice presidential candidate” during a news teaser in the middle of a local baseball broadcast.

I figured that was the casual racism slipping out of a Baby Boomer. Goes to show you what I get for being bigoted. This Cornell motherf…

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