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Vote Bud Blake for true Democratic representation

It’s a shame that someone who represents both the rural county citizens and urban county citizens, and who represents both moderate Democrats and moderate conservatives, when they run on a legitimate platform of being an Independent is automatically broad brushed as Republican by the people who don’t want to see them be effective in office. Because those using the label are actually more concerned with stymieing the progress of the county and the representation thereof, rather than any kind of true democratic representation.

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