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“Growing up in a very rural and remote area in Colorado's San Luis Valley - one of the poorest counties in the United States - essentially created the framework of values from which I operate. I stand up for the little guy. I fight discrimination at all levels. I fight for an inclusive America.”

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Author:Ken Salazar

“In '87 - four years after 'Sports' was released - my family and I began vacationing in Montana. I soon bought my first piece of land in Ravalli County, in the western part of the state.”

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Author:Huey Lewis

“We have 62 counties in New York State and each has its own system of death investigation.”

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Author:Michael Baden

“AFSCME stands for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees.”

States Employee County Federation

Author:Judy Woodruff

“States and counties routinely bear the costs associated with incarcerating undocumented criminal aliens once they enter the criminal justice system.”

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Author:Michael Dean Crapo

“The experts spent a great deal of time and study working out a formula which would be fair to every State and fair to every county and fair to every child, and would put the education dollar where that dollar is needed most, now.”

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Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“Here’s a secret intel bulletin for all y’all who’ve never left Yoknapatawpha County and imagine the United States is constantly on the precipice of enemy invasion—the only way this country is ever going to surrender its liberty to a foreign power is if it keeps electing corrupt officials who auction it away to multinational corporations and overseas government interests in exactly the fashion that southern star chambers have been doing to their own people throughout their entire dyspeptic history.”

Source: Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession

“In some of the middle colonies the towns and counties were both active and had a relation with each other which was the forerunner of the present system of local government in the Western States.”

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Author:Albert Bushnell Hart

“Take me to the driest county in the most conservative state, and in two hours this determined hedonist will find you all the drugs, whores, and booze you'll need to pass an eventful weekend.”

Needs Two States Hours Drug Conservative Determined Take Me Weekend County Booze Hedonist

Book:Skipping Towards Gomorrah

Source: Skipping Towards Gomorrah