What Do Grover Cleveland & Tammany Hall Have To Do With Fort Worth's 7th Street Gang?

"Ma ma where's my pa" by Frank Beard (1842−1905)

The recent TRWD Board Election featured the most ridiculous mud slinging smears I have ever had the pleasure to witness.

The TRWD Board incumbents have in their employ, for election time smearing, a professional character assassin named Bryan Epstein.

Mr. Epstein came up with the genius tactic of informing voters that an evil Dallas businessman was plotting to take Fort Worth's water while digging up a World War II veteran's grave and if voters did not vote for the incumbents they would soon be drinking toilet water.

Yeah, it's sort of funny when you sum it up like that. But it wasn't so funny finding this absurd propaganda in my mailbox. Or that Fort Worth's highly educated, highly intelligent voters, supposedly, were easily able to be influenced by lies, smears, propaganda and an irrational fear of Dallas.

I do not know if Mr. Epstein was practicing his craft back in 1884. What I do know is the presidential campaign of 1884 had some character assassinating of the sort that some TRWD Board incumbents would be totally okay with.

Corruption in politics was the big issue in the election of 1884, just like it should have been in the Tarrant Region election of 2015.

Grover Cleveland was the reform candidate, a Democrat, with a spotless reputation. James G. Blaine was the Republican candidate. Blaine had a reputation for corruption and scandals being linked to him.

As the campaign began it was said that not since George Washington had a presidential candidate been so renowned for his rectitude as was Grover Cleveland.

Then the Republican character assassins struck.

Something unseemly had been discovered in Cleveland's past.

In cahoots with a publicity seeking preacher named George Ball, the Republicans accused Cleveland of fathering a child without marrying the mother, whilst he was a lawyer in Buffalo, New York.

The Republican's campaign chant became "Ma, Ma, Where's My Pa?"

Cleveland quickly admitted he had been paying child support since 1874 to Maria Crofts Halpin, who claimed Grover was the baby daddy of a boy she named Oscar Folsom. Apparently Miss Halpin led a busy social life, "friendly" with several men, including Grover's friend and law partner, Oscar Folsom, after whom she named the boy.

Cleveland was the only bachelor among the men who had been "friendly" with the baby mama, so he took responsibility for the baby, so as to spare the other's marital woes.

Shortly before the voting took place in the 1884 election the Republican press published an affidavit from Miss Halpin in which she claimed that until Grover corrupted her she was "Pure and spotless and that there is not, and never was, a doubt as to the paternity of our child, and the attempt of Grover Cleveland, or his friends, to couple the name of Oscar Folsom, or any one else, with that boy, for that purpose is simply infamous and false."

Voters in 1884 were not as easily duped by sleazy campaign tactics as Texas voters, well, Tarrant Region voters are in 2015, because Grover Cleveland won that election. At the victory celebration the celebration chant became "Ma, Ma, Where's My Pa? Gone to the White House, Ha, Ha, Ha!"

Grover Cleveland went on to win the popular vote in two more elections.

But he did not become president for a second term after winning his second election.

Even though Grover Cleveland won the popular vote in his second presidential race he did not get to continue being America's president.

New York's infamous Tammany Hall rigged the election.

Tammany Hall was able to deny Cleveland the electoral votes of his home state, giving the presidency to Benjamin Harrison, who did not do too well on the job, so the voters re-elected Grover Cleveland in 1892, with Tammany Hall unable to stop Grover a second time.

New York's infamous Tammany Hall corrupted New York, and national, politics for a long time, from after the Civil War, well into the next century, rigging elections, shady business deals, graft, bribery, all sorts of corruption.

Fort Worth's Tammany Hall equivalent is known as The 7th Street Gang.

I do not know how long this gang has been in control of Fort Worth. Or how many elections they have rigged......

Finding Imaginative Sign Progress By America's Biggest Boondoggle On Saturday Gateway Park Bike Ride

Long ago, almost every Saturday, I took my handlebars to Gateway Park to roll over the mountain bike trail before going treasure hunting at Town Talk.

Well, due to excessive mud the Gateway Park mountain bike trails are currently not rollable, but the paved trails are.

What you are looking at over my handlebars is Gateway Park's Trinity Falls, currently with the Trinity River running high, rendering the Trinity Trail bridge over the river uncrossable.

I don't know why a road has been scratched through the levee, scratched all the way to the river. I saw construction activity today in Gateway Park in addition to the scraped levee.

I found the sign my handlebars are pointing at above to be a bit amusing. Sanitary sewer relocations? Hasn't that old sewage treatment plant in Gateway Park been abandoned for decades? They're relocating it? The Sanitary Sewer Relocations are for the Trinity River Vision - Central City Project & the Trinity Uptown Service Area?

Whoever made this sign must not have gotten the memo that America's Biggest Boondoggle is now called Panther Island.

Trinity River Vision Central City Project Trinity Uptown is so last decade.

Continuing on I came to some new paved trail damage on the Gateway Park trails. The flooding river has done some fresh trail undermining.

It has been quite a few years since the remnants of Hurricane Hermine flooded the Trinity River and did the original damage to the paved trail, which the latest flood has enhanced. Is the damaged trail finally going to be fixed? I have no idea.

Continuing on, arriving back at the mountain bike trail soccer baseball parking lot, I saw the sign you see below.

America's Biggest Boondoggle loves its signage. For years now there has been a HUGE installation of Boondoggle signage by the Gateway Park dog park.

The above sign tell us....

 "As part of the Trinity River Vision Master Plan, we're counting down to the launch of some major improvements to Gateway that will make 2015 a big year for progress. Improvements have already been launched in both east and west Gateway Park, many of which are scheduled to be complete this year. Thanks to the project partners for making Gateway Park a world class park for our city!"

Oh the hubris, the raw galling hubris. World class park? Counting down to the launch of some improvements? Improvements have already been launched? I thought we just read we were counting down to the launch?

I'm stuck on "world class park"

What exactly is a "world class park" I am wondering?

Can a "world class park" be world class  if it sports dozens of outhouses like Gateway Park currently sports?

In the middle of the sign are two illustrations of the progress coming to Gateway Park, including that which you see below.

The above illustration tell us "This scenic river observation deck is one of many amenities going into Gateway Park East in 2015, thanks to the City of Fort Worth Parks Department".

Fort Worth is finally going to repair the long boarded up boardwalk eyesores which have been an embarrassment in this world class park for a decade or longer? Or is this to be a new overlook at a different location, with the existing boardwalk remaining a boarded up eyesore?

Last summer I made a video of the boarded up boardwalk in Gateway Park East. Let me see if I can find that video. I'll be right back. Okay, I found it. I'll stick the video in at the end, but first let's look at what we learn on the right side of the sign.

A comprehensive list of those aforementioned "improvements" which have either launched or will soon launch.

The sign tells us that coming in 2015 to Gateway Park East we will see new benches & tables, extra security lighting, additional restrooms, pedestrian bridges, new picnic pavilions, trail extensions, a new trailhead and something called "sights and sounds of nature" children's learning area.

Additional restrooms? Since there are no public restrooms in Gateway Park, of the modern indoor plumbing sort (except in the baseball park, open only when games are being played) are these additional restrooms more outhouses? I would assume so.

Outhouses are the restroom facilities at one of the world's premiere outdoor music venues, The Boondoggle's Panther Island Pavilion, where there is no island or pavilion.

Does it not strike you, as it does me, that these are rather meager park improvements? Is it really necessary to install a sign letting park visitors know more outhouses are being added in 2015?

I have grown tired of typing, so I will keep the Town Talk talk short. Suffice to say, I got a lot of good stuff today.

Anyway, below is the aforementioned video of a walk on the current Gateway Park East boarded up boardwalk....

Has An Automated Survey Asked How You Voted In The TRWD Election & If You Are Going To Scarborough Faire?

A few weeks ago, way back in April, Fort Worth Weekly's cover article was titled TWRD v. FOES.

I blogged about the article and its unfortunate TWRD typo in Fort Weekly Does Not Know I Am A Foe Of The TWRD followed by In Fort Worth Weekly Is J.D. Granger Exhibit A For The TRWD Prosecution Or The Defense?

A week ago an election took place in Fort Worth Weekly's vicinity. However in this week's post-election Fort Worth Weekly no mention is made of the TRWD and its foes and their part in the election.

Only in the STATIC column was tepid mention made of the election.

Methinks, no, mefears, that Fort Worth has lost its only vestige of a real newspaper. Something has gone awry with Fort Worth Weekly.

This week's cover article asks that Simon & Garfunkel question from a half century ago, Are You Going to Scarborough Faire? With a sub-heading telling us that The Renaissance is still all the rage in Waxahachie.

The article came across to me like one extremely long advertisement, with a lot of photos. This article, about a family oriented venue, also marks the first time I have noticed an FW Weekly feature article featuring barnyard vulgarisms and the F-word.

I made an F-word free webpage of my visit, years ago to Scarborough Faire. That webpage managed to generate the most comments, some with the F-word, of anything I have ever done. You can read some of them, freed of profanity, in Scarbo Feedback.

Now back to TRWD v. FOES.

This morning an interesting comment showed up commenting on a blogging yesterday about Ballot Bandits....

Anonymous has left a new comment on your post "Ballot Bandit Tips On How To Steal An Election In Texas": 

Just got an automated survey asking about how I voted in the TRWD election. Seems inquiring minds want to know... This could get interesting.
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An automated survey? Over the phone? How would that work? I voted in the TRWD election. But I don't recollect leaving my phone number anywhere.

Ballot Bandit Tips On How To Steal An Election In Texas

A week ago if you'd asked me if it were possible to steal an election in modern day America I would likely have opined that such a thing would not be possible, what with me assuming there must be a lot of checks in place to assure the validity of an election.

Who could get away with such a thing?

Well.

A week later, methinks something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

I mean Texas.

Regarding rigging an election the following is what The Economist had to say about election day frauds...

With so many possibilities for subtle rigging, it may seem odd that the crude stuff remains so popular. Perhaps election-rigging is a hallmark of ill-run political systems, where corrupt local officials instinctively revert to the malpractice that comes naturally. Or perhaps, since the clever stuff can go wrong, ballot-stuffing is a safety valve. Politicians in shoddy democracies are learning what leaders in real ones have long known—you can fool only some of the people, and only some of the time.

A Washington Post article titled How to Steal an Election has some interesting information about stealing an election, along with a revealing graphic...

It's easier to rig an electronic voting machine than a Las Vegas slot machine, says University of Pennsylvania visiting professor Steve Freeman. That's because Vegas slots are better monitored and regulated than America's voting machines, Freeman writes in a book out in July that argues, among other things, that President Bush may owe his 2004 win to an unfair vote count. We'll wait to read his book before making a judgment about that. But Freeman has assembled comparisons that suggest Americans protect their vices more than they guard their rights, according to data he presented at an October meeting of the American Statistical Association in Philadelphia.

Then there is Arstechnica with an article titled How to steal an election by hacking the vote which includes the following disturbing warning...

What if I told you that it would take only one person—one highly motivated, but only moderately skilled bad apple, with either authorized or unauthorized access to the right company's internal computer network—to steal a statewide election? You might think I was crazy, or alarmist, or just talking about something that's only a remote, highly theoretical possibility. You also probably would think I was being really over-the-top if I told you that, without sweeping and very costly changes to the American electoral process, this scenario is almost certain to play out at some point in the future in some county or state in America, and that after it happens not only will we not have a clue as to what has taken place, but if we do get suspicious there will be no way to prove anything. You certainly wouldn't want to believe me, and I don't blame you.

Well now, what to make of all this? Does it explain the inexplicable in the recent Texas election? I don't know.

But, I think we will find out....

A Green Rush Of Marijuana In Texas In June In Arlington

This morning I was surprised and a bit puzzled by the advertisement you see here on the back cover of this week's Fort Worth Weekly.

The Arlington Convention Center is hosting a Green Rush Texas event where you can learn how to start up a marijuana business?

Did I do a Rip Van Winkle and wake up in a Texas which has legalized growing marijuana?

When I went to sleep not even medicinal marijuana was yet legal in Texas, and the only states where recreational marijuana and medicinal marijuana has been legalized is my old home state of Washington, the state I was born in, Oregon, a state I have fished in, Alaska and a state I have mountain climbed in, Colorado.

So, with that pattern in place it makes sense that the state I have lived in for over 15 years, Texas, would also legalize marijuana.

Texas Governor Greg Abbott Increases High School Graduation Rate To 100%

I saw that which you see here, this morning, on Facebook, and found it to be amusing.

The brilliant  new governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, signed into law something called SB 835.

This new law exempts thousands of Texas high school seniors from needing to pass graduation exams before being allowed to graduate, thus solving the chronic Texas low high school graduation rate problem.

Greg Abbott seems to be on a fast track to making an even bigger impression on the rest of America than his two predecessors, Perry and Bush.

Will this new law cause the upcoming Jade Helm 15 takeover of Texas to now be expanded to taking over Texas high schools?

The first event I went to after my arrival in Texas was Fort Worth's Main Street Arts Festival. I had never been to anything where you had to convert your American currency into coupons in order to buy something like a hot dog. Or turkey leg.

At the time I thought American currency was legal tender for any monetary transaction.

The State Fair of Texas was the next event I attended where I had to get in a line to buy coupons before I could get in another line to buy deep fried butter.

After several more events where I could not use money, directly, to buy something I figured this was some sort of universal Texas practice.

And then I went Canton First Mondays Trade Days to find myself surprised that I could use regular money to buy a smoked turkey leg.

At some point during my period of puzzlement about what seemed to me to be a bizarre practice, after opining that I thought it bizarre, a Texan told me the reason American currency is not used directly at a lot of events in Texas.

The low high school graduation rate.

Many of the kids hired to sell the hotdogs and turkey legs don't have the math ability to make change.

But, they can count coupons.

Somehow I don't think Greg Abbott's SB 835 improvement to the Texas high school graduation rate is going to end the need to get in line to exchange American currency for coupons at next year's Main Street Arts Festival...

The Bridge Of The Gods Over The Columbia River Was No Trinity River Vision Boondoggle Bridge

Continuing on with our popular series of blogging about feats of bridge engineering that took less than four years to build.

What we are looking at here is known as the Bridge of the Gods.

You would have seen this bridge if you saw the Reese Witherspoon movie, "Wild" depicting Cheryl Strayed's epic Pacific Crest Trail hike.

The Bridge of the Gods is where the Pacific Crest Trail crosses the Columbia River from Oregon to Washington. This was the location of the end of Ms. Strayed's "Wild" hike from California north.

In 1920 the U.S. War Department issued the Interstate Construction Corporation a construction permit to build the Bridge of the Gods.

However, apparently a local congresswoman's unqualified son was hired to direct the project.

By 1925 the Interstate Construction Corporation had only managed to build one pier. An entity called Wauna Toll Bridge Company then took over the project and had the new bridge open for traffic in October of 1926.

I wonder if the Wauna Bridge Company is available to take over construction of America's Biggest Boondoggle's three little simple bridges being built over dry land with a four year construction time span?

The Bridge of the Gods was not built over dry land. It was built over water, currently, on average, 108 feet deep.

In 1938 the water under the Bridge of the Gods began to rise due to the completion of Bonneville Dam. That same year Congress voted to fund the raising of the Bridge of the Gods 44 feet, along with increasing the length of the bridge from 1,131 feet to 1,856 feet. This was completed in 1940.

How can a complex feat of bridge engineering take place over the mighty Columbia in such a short time span while in Fort Worth it takes four years to build three little simple bridges, with no obstacles to make construction difficult?

I have opined previously my aggravation over the fact that J.D. Granger, his mama and Fort Worth mayor, Betsy Price, have each propagandized the ridiculous lie that Fort Worth's little bridges are being built over dry land in order to save money by making construction easier.

Why is this a lie?

Because there will be no water under those little bridges until a ditch is dug under them and the Trinity River is diverted into the ditch.

The bridges are being built over dry land because this never voted for by the public, public works project, is underfunded, unlike the Bridge of the Gods, and pretty much any other public works project in America which actually works.

How come the Star-Telegram does not send one of its Pulitzer Prize winning reporters to ask a few questions of J.D. Granger?

Questions like...

Will you explain why you claim these bridges are being built over dry land, prior to the digging of the ditch, to save money, when there will be no water in the ditch until the Trinity is diverted into it?

Can you explain why it will take four years to build these three little bridges over dry land, when there have been bridges built all over the world over treacherous bodies of water with construction times of less than four years?

When will the digging of the ditch begin?

Won't the bridges already being in place present a construction difficulty when the ditch is dug under them?

Four years from now, if the three bridges are completed by then, when can we expect to see water flowing under these bridges?

What is the construction timeline of the ditch that goes under the bridges?

And then when Mr. Granger tells the Star-Telegram reporter he does not know when the ditch will be dug and how long it will take to dig it I hope the reporter asks...

How can you not know? You've been the director of America's Biggest Boondoggle for well near a decade. How can you not have a project timeline for this project?

America's Biggest Boondoggle is very perplexing, and even more perplexing is the fact that, apparently, most of the voters who vote in the area of America's Biggest Boondoggle either don't know what a mis-managed mess it is.

Or don't care.

How To Win An Election Landslide

For days now I have found myself bumpuzzling over the puzzling results of Saturday's TRWD Board Election.

I had expected the incumbents, Lane & Leonard to lose.

I thought the record breaking early voting turn out was due to voters turning out to vote out the TRWD incumbents due to being disgusted with the TRWD Board's myriad shady shenanigans.

Including the incumbent's sleazy mud slinging lie filled campaign and its flood of poster-sized mailers.

But, when the results were tallied Lane & Leonard won. Not only did they win, they won in a lop-sided landslide

I figured the Tarrant Region's highly educated, highly intelligent voters would have rolled their eyes at the TRWD incumbent's embarrassing scare tactics of warning them about that nefarious grave-robbing Dallas businessman's evil plot to take Fort Worth's water,  forcing the people to drink toilet water.

Even after witnessing Texas closeup for over a decade and a half, I am still ignorant as to how things work here.

It is clear to me now that a lot of Fort Worth people have some sort of irrational fear of Dallas. And the mastermind behind the incumbent's campaign knew exactly what ridiculous strings to pull to get voters to vote for the incumbents.

Or maybe those voters who voted for the incumbents are all hunky dory with nepotism and cronyism and all the other TRWD Board shady shenanigans.

Those voters who voted for the incumbents must be okay with Jim Lane arranging a sweetheart deal for his bankrupt friend, Carl Bell, paying about twice market value for some contaminated land on which the world's first drive-in movie theater of the 21st century was built, along with an ice rink.

Those voters who voted for the incumbents must approve of the way the TRWD Board and Jim Oliver have treated Mary Kelleher.

The voters who voted for the incumbents must not mind the TRWD Board wasting millions of their dollars on a ridiculous attempt to take water from Oklahoma.

The voters who voted for the incumbents must be okay with the TRWD violating, repeatedly, the Freedom of Information Act.

The voters who voted for the incumbents must be big fans of a slow moving public works project they've never voted for, that keeps changing its name as the years roll by, which is now known, by many, as America's Biggest Boondoggle.

The voters who voted for the incumbents must think it makes perfectly good sense to take four years to build three small simple bridges, over dry land, connecting the mainland to an imaginary island.

The voters who voted for the incumbents must think it is a good thing to encourage people to get wet in the polluted Trinity River, while making little effort to clean up the river.

The voters who voted for the incumbents must be big believers of eminent domain abuse taking their neighbor's homes and businesses for an economic development project slated to be a big moneymaker for friends and family of the TRWD Board.

Except for Mary Kelleher.

The voters who voted for the incumbents must totally approve of hiring the unqualified son of Fort Worth's congresswoman, Kay Granger, to direct what has become America's Biggest Boondoggle.

The morning after the election I was asked by someone in Los Angeles if I thought the election had been rigged.

I admit when I saw the lop-sided landslide results the rigging thought did cross my mind. But, I can't imagine how such a rigging would be possible.

Then again, I do have a limited imagination.

What I am fairly certain of is, when the next TRWD Board Election rolls around in two years, the mudslingers are going to be slinging it at Mary Kelleher.....

Spencer Jack's Skagit River Vision Riverwalk Sprouts Year Round Tulips

Email from FNJ (Favorite Nephew Jason) and Spencer Jack this morning, with three pictures along with a short message....

FUD---
Skagit County now has tulips in bloom year round.

Tulips year round? I wondered what that meant when I read it.

The third photo answered the question.

But first I saw the picture of Spencer Jack you see here.

Is this Spencer's first selfie? Is his dad teaching Spencer to drive?

Before we get to the tulips we get to a picture of Spencer Jack sitting at what looks like some sort of futuristic picnic table.

That futuristic picnic table is located on Mount Vernon's Skagit Riverwalk.

I don't know what the actual name is of Mount Vernon's new riverfront.

Skagit Riverwalk sounds like a good name to me. What with it allowing one to take a scenic walk along the river.

The Downtown Mount Vernon Flood Protection and Revitalization Project came about when Mount Vernon opted to find a better solution than sandbagging when the Skagit River goes into flood mode endangering downtown Mount Vernon.

Mount Vernon did not call its river project the Skagit River Vision. Mount Vernon's project was fully funded, engineered with a project timeline. A project solving a real flood problem, in addition to adding a riverwalk to downtown Mount Vernon.

No local politician's unqualified son was hired, and overpaid, to oversee Mount Vernon's Skagit River Vision.

The Skagit Riverwalk has a plaza that is bigger than downtown Fort Worth's Sundance Square Plaza that the Fort Worth chamber of commerce sorts seem so proud of.

And now we get to those year round tulips.

Those are some mighty big tulips Spencer Jack is sitting under!

I wonder if anyone in Mount Vernon is trying to get some sort of Rockin' the River Happy Hour Inner Tube Floats in the Skagit River?

I suspect not.

Even though the Skagit River flows with clean, litter-free water, unlike the Trinity River, the Skagit is a real river with a current which can move quite fast, varying in speed with tidal changes a few miles downriver where the Skagit meets Puget Sound.

Unlike the Trinity River the Skagit is a bit cold year round, due to a large volume of the Skagit's water coming from melting snow and glaciers.

I wonder how many more years it will be before you will see anything like you see above produced by the Trinity River Uptown Central City Panther Island Vision Boondoggle?

We know it won't be for another four years til you will see The Boondoggle's three bridges being built over dry land to connect the mainland to an imaginary island.

The bridge you see in the above pictures was built in less than four years.

Built over an actual river......

Tough Day For Democracy Transparency Fairness & Fighting Corruption In Texas

That which you see here I saw this morning, on Facebook, posted by the Fort Worth Connie D.

The question asked sort of matches how I am feeling about some Texans this morning.

I am way too stupidly optimistic way too much of the time.

I stupidly assumed that Fort Worth voters were not so easily duped into not voting for someone out of an irrational fear that someone in Dallas was plotting to take over Fort Worth's water supply.

A blog comment from someone named Anonymous shared the sentiment I was feeling...

"Tough day for the revolution".

Tough day for democracy, transparency, fairness and fighting corruption.

A series of comments from Facebook....

• Ok friends. The election is over. No more political posts for a while (except results).
• So far those results ain't good.....
• Hope the votes went the way you wanted.
• Not good Andy.
• Nope. Not good at all. Unfortunately people in Fort Worth are very reactionary to Dallas and it looks like they successfully labeled the candidates with their misinformation. I had one voter ask me why I would hold a sign for that lady from Dallas. I tried to convince him that Michele lived in East Fort Worth But he wouldn't buy it. Sigh.
• Now, the terrible news. Craig Bickley and Michele Von Luckner appear to have lost their bid to be the second and third non-corrupt TRWD Directors (with hopes to join incorruptible Mary Kelleher). They fought a hard battle - and stuck to the facts; while the incumbents slung mud, lied blatantly, used taxpayer funds to campaign and peddled their influence to MANY Dallas area billionaires. Our fight against government abuse, lack of transparency, and corruption doesn't end here. To those who were fortunate to win - and to those who didn't win THIS TIME... Keep up the fight!
• Good Mornin'! As I am sure you heard, Craig and I did not win the seats on the Board of the TRWD. We can truly say it was not because we did not give it our all and with the help and devotion from our many volunteers, our friends and our families. We are not losers, we truly won by all the people we were so blessed to meet. We have brought much needed attention to this Board and the unethical practices, the backdoor deals and lack of transparency. Fort Worth and the service area of the TRWD is the one who lost last night, two politicians were re-elected to an office that sorely needs honest, ethical and trustworthy Public Servants. This is by no means over. We have shown a light on poor management, cronyism and questionable integrity of the GM and all but one of the Board Members. We will continue to support Mary and we will continue spreading the message because two years comes quick and we have 2 seats and Mary's re-election to Win in 2017!! Stand Strong, continue the fight and spreading the word !! Thank you so very much for the support, guidance, prayers and belief, now let's keep this momentum going !! Happy Mother's Day and again, Thank you !!

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I think I may give up. Does revoking my voter registration get me out of possible jury duty?