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Gun Control & RKBA

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5. Those are pretty significant override numbers.

Reply to DonP (Reply #4)

Tue Jul 9, 2013, 04:42 PM

Jul 2013

To top it off, he royally pissed off the most powerful Dem in the state, Mike Madigan, whose daughter is gunning for Quinn's office.
Seems to me, that's not a very politically astute thing to do.

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