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  • `Rural Majority' name snatched by new group

    07/27/2005 8:45:49 AM PDT · by sionnsar · 2 replies · 471+ views
    The King County Journal (Seattle area) ^ | 7/27/2005 | Dean A. Radford
    Critical Areas Ordinance foes register name, taking it from less vocal property rights group Just who is the ``real'' Rural Majority?Ron Ewart of Fall City and Preston Drew of Carnation think it's rural folks like them. Foes of government, they oppose any regulation they figure tramples on their property rights. On their side are roughly 18,000 residents who signed petitions to do away with the county's controversial Critical Areas Ordinance and two other pieces of environmental regulation.What they didn't have was a catchy name that, as a bonus, carried great symbolic weight.They've got one now -- at the expense of...