Tea Parties, GOP primaries, and elections

by Brian T. Schwartz | 5:00 am, September 21, 2010

The Daily Camera printed my response to the following question in its September 18 edition: Looking to fall, the Tea Party — though loosely defined and with no official structure or leadership — will play a major role in the November elections, having sealed up several important primaries. But some Democrats have chosen to see [...]

Media Week in Review: Clear The Bench Colorado, judicial merit selection/retention, & the Colorado Supreme Court in the news

by CTBC Director | 11:45 pm, September 20, 2010

Scouring the ‘net for news – so you don’t have to…
Wrapping up the previous week’s news coverage, the Greeley Gazette published a thoughtful and informative article (”Organization Calls for Non-Retention of Three Colorado Justices“, Friday 10 September 2010) discussing how the Colorado Supreme Court’s Mullarkey Majority (incumbent justices Michael Bender, Alex Martinez, and Nancy Rice [...]

WWII Vet Seymour Glass and the Diamond Cross

by Ari Armstrong | 2:38 pm, September 20, 2010

With Bob Glass, I interviewed WWII veteran Seymour Glass on September 4. Here he discusses a friend’s journal that he returned to his wife. This is the final of four videos (released out of sequence).See the full series of interviews with Seymour Glass.

“I Am But A Foot Soldier In This War.”

by Nikki | 12:11 pm, September 20, 2010

I am a newbie, a political neophyte, a grass roots activist and a Republican. I cut my political teeth on the 2008 McCain campaign. Once I started volunteering, I worked six days a week at the Centennial office. I had no choice. I did my homework on Obama and I knew what was coming. During [...]

It’s as Important as Ever for Colorado Parents to Know their Educational Options

by Eddie | 10:24 am, September 20, 2010

The new week brings an interesting Ed News Colorado story from new writer Katie Kerwin McCrimmon called “Keeping Up with the Dunruds.” The story highlights a Denver family with a boy about my own age who sounds like he shares some of my penchant for prodigy:

Braeden Dunrud was riding in the family car when he [...]

Obamacare: Now We’re Finding Out What’s In it

by Chuck Moe | 10:02 am, September 20, 2010

Nancy Pelosi’s now famous words are coming to haunt Americans as Insurance companies drop policies for children and raise rates to make up for all the mandates Obamacare calls for. The Post has listed a few federal requirements that go into effect this Thursday:

Tea Party pros and cons; Debating O’Donnell

by Rossputin | 7:54 am, September 20, 2010

In response to my note yesterday about the candidacy of Christine O’Donnell in Delaware, and the broadcast by Bill Maher of O’Donnell saying on his show that she had “dabbled into witchcraft”, a reader (and friend) named Mike sent me this note:

Regarding your piece on O’Donnell I have a minor disagreement with you. While I agree that many of the Tea Party candidates are more than a little rough around the edges, her included, and there is good logic and truth in the Buckley quote that everyone is tossing around now about voting for the most conservative candidate who can get elected, I think something else important is going on.

Buckley’s quote is more of a strategy for the conservative movement and the thinking voter with a national view of the political landscape but in reality it boils down more to Tip Oneill’s quote (I think it was him) that all politics [is] local. People have really had it and are beginning to elect true ‘citizen politicians’ drawn from everyday, ‘ordinary’ people and a lot of them are going to be rough and unpolished and perhaps scheming and in search of little more than self promotion and a spot in the limelight. I think this is good in the sense that people are FINALLY looking elsewhere for real CHANGE and with real HOPE that things can be different. It is happening so widely that it is inspiring in a way.

I have some of the same laments about these candidates that you do but at the same time I also have the feeling that real revolutionary change can be very messy and make for strange bedfellows along the way. If people like O’Donnell are worth anything it is that they really shake the establishment to the core and show what is possible given the mood the country is in. I would rather not see another deceptive and spineless RINO get elected who will break on important issues. The kook option seems better at this point and I really like seeing the citizen politician emerging, I hope it lasts. Maybe Obama has done the country an unintended favor.

Although Mike and I agree on many or most things, I think he’s on the verge of a serious error here.

First, I basically agree with Buckley’s maxim to find the most conservative electable candidate, or more precisely the most classically liberal electable candidate.  That said, if the most conservative electable candidate is, for example, Mark Kirk in Illinois, my support will be half-hearted at best.  Indeed, after Kirk voted for cap and trade in the House, one of only 9 Republicans to do so, I said – and I maintain – that I will not support him.

However, what about O’Donnell would seem to satisfy the critical “electable” party of Buckley’s marching orders?  Almost every experienced Republican in Delaware said she was unelectable to state-wide office, not least because of her series of micro-scandals.  Indeed, the fact that she claims to have “dabbled into witchcraft”, at least in terms of inanity if not specific content, are surprising only in the sense that they’re not particularly surprising.

It’s one thing to support the “rise of the citizen legislator” which I most surely do.  And I’m fine with reasonably outside-the-mainstream conservatives.  I do give someone a positive for not having served in office before, though I might give an even bigger plus for someone who had served and then went back to the private sector before giving it another try – assuming the current try is based on truly fearing for our nation rather than having failed in the private sector.

I like Rand Paul.  Joe Miller in Alaska seems decent.  Nikki Haley in South Carolina strikes me as a good example of what Tea Party activism can accomplish.  But then there’s Dan Maes (here in Colorado) and Christine O’Donnell in Delaware.

Many Tea Partiers are politically naive.  They confuse their enthusiasm with experience; their attachment to principle with wisdom.

As I’ve said before, those who support(ed) Maes and O’Donnell are not fully to blame.  After all, the “establishment” candidate in both cases (Scott McInnis and Mike Castle) was hardly inspiring, with McInnis being all but disqualified for his ripping off the Hasan Family Foundation.

While I understand Mike’s view that the rise of candidates such as named above is “inspiring”, that inspiration only goes so far.  It’s like being inspired by the invention of gunpowder but then coming to wonder whether anyone will ever invent a gun that shoots straight.

I think Mike somewhat misses the point of all this.  The point isn’t just to be against incumbents, or even against government; I’m a libertarian, not an anarchist, and I do believe there are legitimate functions of (federal) government, as laid out in our constitution.  The point is to be for “good” and limited government.

Therefore, I think Mike veers off the track when he says that “the kook option seems better at this point”.  I think Mike and many like him are suffering from the conservative or libertarian analog to the left’s Bush Derangement Syndrome.

Look, I don’t want a government run by squishy RINOs like Mike Castle.  But at least the guy isn’t insane, and that has to be worth something.  Thinking that he’s worse than a candidate whose best defense is “but I didn’t join a coven” is placing an understandable dislike of incumbents ahead of our national interest.  Nobody as loosely attached to reality can be relied on to be any more reliable a conservative than the proven “moderate” of Mike Castle.  But, getting back to Buckley, he had the major plus of being electable.

Since O’Donnell’s surprise win – the first primary election (and I hope the last) in which I’ve ever said I hope the RINO wins – political betting odds on the GOP taking back the Senate have dropped from about 27% to about 19.5%.

Most of my motivation in the current election, at least as related to GOP politics, was to punish the establishment for tolerating or encouraging “bipartisanship” for its own sake, for making compromises which always expand the size and cost of government, and for sacrificing our nation’s economic future just barely slower than the Progressives do.

I consider myself a strong supporter of the Tea Party movement.  It’s the most important happening in politics during my lifetime.  But, in addition to bashing the establishment much of the time,  I’m becoming somewhat motivated to make sure that Tea Partiers recognize that they’d better stop offsetting so much of the good they’re doing with idiotic choices like Dan Maes and Christine O’Donnell.

Newly politically active conservative and libertarian-leaning Republicans need to be reminded that the consequences of stupid decisions are not lessened by the good intentions of those who made the decisions.  Just as the theoretical good intentions of Progressives don’t excuse the fact that they cause bad outcomes (for example, higher minimum wages leading to devastating unemployment among inner city youth), I’m not going to accept “how should I have known?” from a supporter of Christine O’Donnell or Dan Maes.  You should have known because you should have asked more questions before blindly supporting someone whose only qualification for a Tea Party endorsement was to be utterly unprepared for the job.

If Bill Buckley were here to see Christine O’Donnell and Dan Maes, he would not be saying that they were just unfortunate outcomes of activists doing the right thing.  He would say “What part of ‘electable’ don’t you understand?”

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One other quick note:  Christopher suggested to me that running the O’Donnell clip poses substantial risk to the left in terms of her being able to play some sort of “media dirty trick” card, and that she could divert her way out by saying something like “why are we talking about this when what’s important is that (insert Democrat candidate name here) will support Barack Obama’s plans to bankrupt the nation.”

I understand Christopher’s point…but he’s completely wrong.

This clip is a political death sentence for O’Donnell – and it deserves to be.  She has long been known by people who live and breathe Delaware politics to be unfit for public office.

Again, Tea Party activists (and Sarah Palin, in a rare major unforced error) have a lot to answer for.  Their ignorance is not sufficient to excuse the damage they’ve caused.  That said, the lesson they learn will probably be very valuable and make the Tea Party movement a much more valuable resource for the nation in the next election cycle.

ActBlue’s Dishonest Ad for "Big Government" Gail Schwartz

by PerlStalker | 9:54 pm, September 19, 2010

I like to listen to radio in the car when I take my daughter to seminary in the morning. Most mornings these days, I get to hear the incessant string of political ads. I can’t help but laugh at the radio ad for Gail Schwartz from ActBlue subsidiary 21s…

Sharia Critics Rally Against NYC Islamic Center

by Ari Armstrong | 7:19 pm, September 19, 2010

A previous post shows photos from the 9/11 NYC rally in favor of the Islamic center near Ground Zero. These photos, also by Bob Glass, show the rally against the center.Some statements promoted Christianity, while others opposed religion:Tea Party them…

Socialists Rallied for Islamic Center, 9/11 Photos Show

by Ari Armstrong | 6:34 pm, September 19, 2010

Bob Glass reviewed the 9/11 NYC rallies for and against the Islamic center near Ground Zero. He also took some outstanding photographs, which I’ve now uploaded to Photo Bucket with his permission.Following is a selection of those photos from the rally …

The RNC aims to exclusivity

by Al Maurer | 3:20 pm, September 19, 2010

Under the title, “Are you still ready to act?” I got am email from the RNC today with the following message: We’ve noticed that you haven’t been responding to our emails lately. Right now, you’re part of the GOP Action … Continue reading →

Backbone Radio, Sept. 19, 2010 – With great appreciation for John Andrews

by Rossputin | 8:17 am, September 19, 2010

This Sunday’s edition of Backbone Radio will be hosted by John Andrews and will be John’s last regularly-scheduled show on Backbone.

I consider it a great honor and gift to me for John, with the approval of KNUS station management, to have offered me the opportunity to be the new permanent host of Backbone Radio, standing in (but never replacing) John, a man whose political experience, and particularly Colorado-centric political experience, I can never hope to match.

I’m very happy that the last 7 months have found John and station management happy with my work so far and I look forward to holding up the high standard to which Backbone Radio listeners have become accustomed during the years of John’s leadership since he created the show.  John will remain an occasional guest-host and call-in guest to the show.

Also, John and I will co-host an election night show special…probably 7 PM to 10 PM…and I hope you’ll all listen in for at least part of ths show.

More importantly, I hope that many of you will call in to the show tonight – studio number is 303 696 1971 – and thank John for his hard work and dedication to this radio show (from which he has never earned a penny), for his consistent efforts to educate and inform Colorado voters, for his consistently principled conservative leadership, and perhaps most of all for being a genuinely good guy.

Backbone Radio, Sept. 19, 2010 – With great appreciation for John Andrews

by Rossputin | 8:17 am, September 19, 2010

This Sunday’s edition of Backbone Radio will be hosted by John Andrews and will be John’s last regularly-scheduled show on Backbone.

I consider it a great honor and gift to me for John, with the approval of KNUS station management, to have offered me the opportunity to be the new permanent host of Backbone Radio, standing in (but never replacing) John, a man whose political experience, and particularly Colorado-centric political experience, I can never hope to match.

I’m very happy that the last 7 months have found John and station management happy with my work so far and I look forward to holding up the high standard to which Backbone Radio listeners have become accustomed during the years of John’s leadership since he created the show.  John will remain an occasional guest-host and call-in guest to the show.

Also, John and I will co-host an election night show special…probably 7 PM to 10 PM…and I hope you’ll all listen in for at least part of ths show.

More importantly, I hope that many of you will call in to the show tonight – studio number is 303 696 1971 – and thank John for his hard work and dedication to this radio show (from which he has never earned a penny), for his consistent efforts to educate and inform Colorado voters, for his consistently principled conservative leadership, and perhaps most of all for being a genuinely good guy.

Imagining the anti-O’Donnell ads…

by Rossputin | 11:04 pm, September 18, 2010

I can just imagine the Internet-based viral images and advertising against Delaware Tea Party favorite and now GOP nominee for the US Senate, Christine O’Donnell.

I said on my radio show (and repeated on these pages) that I wished for the first time ever that a RINO would beat a Tea Party candidate, believing as I did that Christine O’Donnell was unelectable.

With the media doing the Dems’ opposition research for them anywhere and everywhere, it’s not surprising that the latest thing to make O’Donnell look like at least as big a mistake as Dan Maes (the unelectable Republican nominee for Governor of Colorado) has come from leftist faux-intellectual TV personality Bill Maher who has found and broadcast a recording of O’Donnell (appearing on his show in 1999) saying she dabbled in witchcraft.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nECxQUi_pr0

I thought I might come to regret suggesting that I prefer Mike Castle to a Tea Party candidate, but I’m pretty sure I won’t regret it.

Just like with Dan Maes, Tea Partiers must come to realize that someone’s simply being an outsider with no qualifications for political office is not inherently all you need to know in order to support that would-be candidate.

With people like Christine O’Donnell and Lisa Murkowski offsetting all the political good that Sarah Palin has done for conservative women (and I say that as someone who does not want Sarah Palin running for federal office), the GOP remains essentially unworthy of support and at this point it’s fine with me if they don’t take back the Senate.  At least most of these egomaniacs – or just maniacs – seem to be aiming for the Senate right now, so maybe the House still has a chance to show the nation what the GOP could be once both the establishment and the Tea Party start doing a better job vetting candidates and managing winners and losers of their various primary election contests.

It also bears mentioning that this clip should have been rather easy to find; Mike Castle’s people should have found and used it.  Just as Tea Party people in Colorado supported Dan Maes while knowing almost nothing about the guy, newbie political activists in Delaware supported a woman who is manifestly not senatorial material.  I’d bet a lot of money that the Democrats found this weeks ago but held off from running it until after the primary.  They were probably almost as surprised as most of us to see O’Donnell be the nominee after so many Republicans in the state said that O’Donnell was not electable.  Now Bill Maher has ensured that she isn’t, but I don’t blame Maher for it.  I blame O’Donnell supporters as well as Congressman Castle, such a pathetic spineless RINO that he left citizens of his state so desperate for a decent politician that they gambled on a near-sure loser like O’Donnell.

Just as in Colorado, there’s more than enough blame to go around and more than enough reason for pro-liberty, pro-Constitution, and pro-sanity voters to realize that the GOP, while better than the Democrats, is still not ready for prime time or for support for any reason other than not being Democrats – a reason which is probably good for only one election cycle.

Lawrence W. Reed on “Liberty and Character;” FEE, Foundation for Economic Education

by ismith | 10:39 pm, September 18, 2010

For my fellow liberty lovers in Colorado and elsewhere, I would like to enthusiastically direct you to the Foundation for Economic Education, FEE. FEE offers Summer Seminars for high school and college students (and others).  The Summer Seminars bring in top notch talent, advocating for greater liberty and freedom through free-market principles, the Austrian School [...]

A sure way to end a career

by Rossputin | 8:17 pm, September 17, 2010

If Lisa Murkowski does indeed decide to run a write-in campaing for US Senate after losing her Alaska primary to Joe Miller – as she is expected to announce within a couple of hours of this note – she will have destroyed her political future.  Despite having lost in this primary, Murkowski’s career might not be over; she could easily challenge Democrat Senator Mark Begich in four years, or perhaps run for governor.  Although a RINO, Murkowski is hardly the worst of all RINOs.

But if she runs a write-in campaign in this election season, she will rightly be seen as a woman with more ego than brains, more self-interest than concern for the nation, her party, or anything but herself.  In short, she will be seen as the pure politician that she undoubtely has been all along.  And her political future will be completely and permanently ended.

If Alaska of all places ends up with two Democrat senators because of Lisa Murkowski, she will make people forget all about Tom Tancredo’s challenge to a Republican candidate.  She could be the difference between a Republican-controlled Senate and a Senate with Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (or Harry Reid).

If Murkowski runs a write-in campaign, all Alaskans should abandon her now and forever.

(Check Alaska news headlines HERE…)

General Election Update on Devils Advocate

by Jon Caldara | 3:39 pm, September 17, 2010

Can the Colorado gubernatorial race get any stranger? And what’s the status on Buck and Bennett in the U.S. Senate race? Tune in to Devil’s Advocate this week to find out as I am joined by Denver Post reporter Tim Hoover and Fox 31 political reporter Eli Stokols for a general election update. [...]

Obama Care’s Dirty Secrets Revealed

by Jon Caldara | 2:27 pm, September 17, 2010

When Speaker Nancy Pelosi had the audacity to say that we need to pass Obama Care “in order to find out what is in it,” she probably never thought a great little organization would actually come up with a way to let the masses know exactly “what’s in it.” Coloradoans for Personal Choice and [...]

Videos from 9/13 Denver “We Are The People” Rally, Featuring Andrew Breitbart

by T.L. James | 1:09 pm, September 17, 2010

Andrew Breitbart speaking at Monday’s “We Are the People” rally on the capitol steps in Denver: …along with Colorado Republican Party VP Leondray Gholston: After the event, Chelsea Starley of Brushfire TV and Drew McCullough of PPC interviewed Andrew Breitbart on the power of citizen (and citizenship) journalism:

Happy Birthday to the US Constitution

by Rossputin | 10:04 am, September 17, 2010

Happy Birthday, US Constitution!

Like a long-lost parent of an orphaned child, the reintroduction of the Constitution into our national debate on the proper role of government is a heartening, hopeful, regenerative experience.

The Constitution was signed on this day, September 17th, in the year 1787.  You can read quite a good brief history of the writing of the Constitution and the issues surrounding the intense debate at the time at the web site of the U.S. National Archives:
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_history.html

Those were days when many or most Americans actually thought about the proper role of government rather than how they could use government to funnel the earnings of others to themselves or use the power of goverment to crush competition.

And these are days where even if not a majority of Americans are returning to those questions (even if not yet the same answers), enough people are thinking about how our federal government has turned into a tyranny that we stand on the verge of another – this time non-violent – American revolution.

It took the combination of a big-spending so-called “conservative” like George Bush and an outright Marxist “Progressive” like Barack Obama to turn enough people of both political parties into skeptics of federal government (though not in equal measure) that a retaking of the halls of power by lovers of liberty may be possible.  And it’s about time.

If we’re going to save this nation for our children, if we’re going to be able to leave them even the possibilityof a better life than we’ve had, we must start now and we must start by returning to the actual meaning of the Constitution as it stands in black letters on parchment as the touchstone for all that government is allowed to do – and more importantly, what it is prohibited from doing.

Just as an example, yesterday the US Senate passed a “small business” bill which includes a $30 billion fund allowing the government to give low-cost capital to small banks in the hopes that those banks will then lend money to small business.  The government hopes that this action will create jobs, but its impact will be negligible just as every other bit of “pushing on a string has been.”  But the key to the discussion should not be whether the policy will be successful, it should be whether it is constitutional – and it most certainly isn’t.  What in the Constitution, as it was written and intended by James Madison, allows the federal government to take money from taxpayers (either current or future taxpayers) to redistribute to some subsection of a particular industry?

If you answer “the General Welfare” clause or the “Commerce Clause”, you have some serious re-thinking to do.

It doesn’t matter whether the policy would work or not;  it’s unconstitutional and should be repealed as soon as possible.  Furthermore, the acceptance of one unconstitutional act makes it that much easier for politicians and the public to tolerate the next one.  This has been the pattern in America since the ascendency of Progressivism in the late 1800s and we’re now reaping the bitter fruit of that essential lawlessness cared for so dotingly over the last 60 years by Nanny State liberals and power-mad Progressives and muddle-headed do-gooders and haters of capitalism.

So it is with some hopefulness that I celebrate today’s 223rd  birthday of the United States Constitution.  The people are awake. They realize what’s been done, both stealthily and brazenly, TO us, not for us, and how fidelity to this document of only about 4500 words could have prevented the cancer of big government, the treatment for which, like the treatment for cancer of the body, can, for a time, feel worse than the disease but which is necessary to save the live of our body politic.

How Did Bernie Buescher’s Office Absences Affect Military Ballot Access?

by Ben DeGrow | 9:34 am, September 17, 2010

The Colorado Government Accountability Government Project (CGAP) reports that appointed Democrat Secretary of State Bernie Buescher “has spent one-fifth of his time as Secretary out of the office on personal matters.” As the indispensable news aggregator Complete Colorado tags the story: “Weekend at Bernie’s… Literally” According to a Grand Junction Sentinel story, Buescher questions the [...]

Betsy Markey Campaign School: Sara Gagliardi Skips Out on Candidate Forum

by Ben DeGrow | 9:09 am, September 17, 2010

Colorado state representative Sara Gagliardi — a fiscal liberal and union ally — is right at the top of the list of Democratic incumbents whose seats are in jeopardy this fall. Having confirmed to appear at the September 13 Metro North Chamber and MetroNorth Newspaper candidate forum (screenshot of video below), Gagliardi was nevertheless absent. [...]

Are You Feeling Stimulated Yet?

by Chuck Moe | 7:14 am, September 17, 2010

Apparently Obama’s vision of our ‘destiny’ is having everyone employed and supported by the federal government; destroying as many private jobs as possible.

What Will Maes’ Story Be Now?

by Elliot | 6:18 am, September 17, 2010

Denver Post does some due diligence on Dan Maes’s story about his work for the KBI.  Basically, instead of being a threat (as practically a rookie cop) to “powerful people” in Liberal, Kansas, Dan Maes allegedly blew an investigation.  I look forward to Maes releasing his personnel file to clear up the confusion. Look, Maes was [...]

Tea Party Prodded by Denver Post’s Chuck Plunkett

by Ari Armstrong | 9:32 pm, September 16, 2010

Chuck Plunkett, member of the Denver Post’s editorial board, spoke at Denver’s Liberty On the Rocks September 15. He joked, “I’m from the mainstream media, and I’m here to help.”But his message was sincere: “If the liberty movement energy is to mean an…

Jimmy Sengenberger’s Guest-Hosting of The Amy Oliver Show – Hour 1

by Jimmy Sengenberger | 9:30 pm, September 16, 2010

On Wednesday September 15, Regis University online radio host Jimmy Sengenberger of the Seng Center Radio Show filled in for Amy Oliver on 1310KFKA’s The Amy Oliver Show, making his first foray into mainstream AM talk radio!

In the first hour of the f…

Jimmy Sengenberger’s Guest-Hosting of The Amy Oliver Show – Hour 2

by Jimmy Sengenberger | 9:00 pm, September 16, 2010

On Wednesday September 15, Regis University online radio host Jimmy Sengenberger of the Seng Center Radio Show filled in for Amy Oliver on 1310KFKA’s The Amy Oliver Show, making his first foray into mainstream AM talk radio!

In the second hour of the …

Hicklooper Unleashes New Denver Budget Plan

by PerlStalker | 8:45 pm, September 16, 2010

Denver Mayor and Colorado Gubernatorial candidate John Hickenlooper has unleashed his new budget plan on Denver citizens. Much of the $100 million shortfall is made up by increased traffic fines and reduced hours at Denver libraries. Then there’s this:…

Get Ready for Your Health Care ‘Re-Education’

by Brian Schwartz | 3:30 pm, September 16, 2010

Paul Hsieh, MD writes: … rather than acknowledging that their health care plan [Hr 3590]  is fundamentally flawed, the Obama administration is trying to pretend that the problem is merely one of bad public relations. Hence, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius has stated that “we have a lot of re-education to do.” [...]

Clear The Bench Colorado continues the Grassroots Revival: speaking at the Southern Colorado Tea Party Thursday

by CTBC Director | 3:03 pm, September 16, 2010

The resurgence of “We The People” in the form of local citizens banding together in grassroots civic action organizations to defend our constitutional rights is THE continuing political story of the year 2010 in America and is profoundly affecting Colorado Politics in this year and beyond…
Clear The Bench Colorado Director Matt Arnold is both proud and humbled [...]

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