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President’s Oso visit a waste

Sat., April 12, 2014

Our illustrious president will visit the Oso area April 22 with his entourage of political lackeys, security and promotional propagandist; doing a fly-over and taking selfies with Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee. The cost to the American taxpayers will probably exceed the total cost of the cleanup and restoration of the area, and for what?

Lives have been lost and property destroyed. What people don’t need is political hoopla.

Dave Darlow

Spokane

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