Mon
Jan 15 2007
09:04 am
By: R. Neal
Betty Bean has the 6th Floor inside baseball on the term limits decision: "Scores of jobs hung in the balance. Wags joked that they’d never seen so many officeholders at work so late on a Friday afternoon."
Sandra Clark also weighs in with her thoughts on the ruling: "...the court grabbed them by the scruff of the neck, held them up to a mirror and said, 'This means you.'"
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