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To: llevrok

When the tobacco settlement came, Wisconsin had a Democrat governor, Jim Doyle. The money was to come in stages over a number of years, but he sold the rights to the Wall Street money lenders for a present value lump sum. Then he dumped the sum into his state budget for a couple of years to make sure his voter constituency, teachers unions, minorities and the college administrators/professors got a big taste. When the money was gone and we ran deficits, he retired.


19 posted on 10/14/2013 4:41:35 AM PDT by RicocheT (Where neither their property nor their honor is touched, most men live content, Niccolo Machiavelli)
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To: RicocheT

I don’t think Michigan did that but I do remember that they did toss it out as grant money like it was Pixie Dust.

I said then, so much for the idea that it was for Health Care.


20 posted on 10/14/2013 5:16:40 AM PDT by VRWCarea51
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21 posted on 10/14/2013 5:20:54 AM PDT by Clinging Bitterly (R.I P. my old FRiend and neighbor Blackie Owens. Be ever vigilant!)
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