Of the 224 school budgets that were approved by voters, 54 of them passed with 52% of the vote or less. Of the 318 school budgets that failed, 55 of them went down by a margin of less than two percentage points. Statewide, voters rejected school budgets by a 52%-48% marginDo these sounds like"mandate" numbers to you?
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
Wally World
Wally Edge makes me nuts sometimes; but I have to admit, there are other times when he nails it:
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