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“Absolutely it was money well spent.” Mary Lindquist, president of the Washington Education Association, referring to donations by the teachers' union to Democratic gubernatorial candidate Christine Gregoire 's 2004 campaign that included $25,000 to back a recount that gave Gregoire a 129-vote victory over Republican Dino Rossi, resulting in a Gregoire administration that has backed increased education spending and teacher pay raises Source: Los Angeles Times
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“I’m here to move a mountain and I need a lot of shovels.” Mark Baida, the new executive chef of the Los Angeles Unified School District, where demands are growing for food that is delicious, healthful, served quickly—and inexpensively—in an institution that provides 500,000 meals a day Source: Los Angeles Times “There is an insularity here that I think is a net positive.” Juneau, Alaska, Mayor Bruce Botelho, on what might be at stake in a plan to build a 51-mile road linking the isolated state capital to the North American mainland, a proposal that is is meeting with resistance from some Juneau residents who like things just as they are Source: New York Times “I left 20 percent of myself there.” Former Minneapolis city council member Dean Zimmermann, who says he dropped 55 pounds in a federal minimum-security prison in Colorado where he served a 17-month sentence for accepting an illegal gratuity Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune “I’d invade Ohio.” Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, one of several governors asked at a panel at the annual gathering of the National Governors Association what they would do if their states were separate countries Source: Washington Post “South Carolina is so gay.” Proclamation in a London advertising campaign targeting gay tourists, leading the state's Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism to announce that it will not pay the tour operator and will not pay the roughly $4,942 fee it was being charged to take part in the campaign Source: The State of Columbia “If you were in a dark alley, which one of the three of us would you want with you?” Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura, the 6-foot-4 former Navy SEAL and professional wrestler, hinting yet again that he may yet jump into this year's U.S. Senate race, one already shaping up as a rowdy extravaganza pitting Republican incumbent Norm Coleman against Democratic talk-show host and comedian Al Franken Source: Minneapolis Star-Tribune “Nowthen, one of these ought to do.” Note at the top of a list of proposed names for a Minnesota community north of the Twin Cities written by a community leader in the 1890s, which resulted in the local post office mistakenly being named Nowthen, a designation that is now the town's official name after a community vote to incorporate Source: Associated Press “ ‘Tired’ is probably the best word to use to describe them, and that might be generous.” Dan Stessel, spokesman for NJ Transit, on the dozens of battered, 40-year-old Comet 1 rail cars that the New Jersey transit agency is retiring and that are being bought or leased by transit agencies in California, Pennsylvania, Utah and Canada facing surging ridership Source: Newark Star-Ledger “We wish to inform you that your transaction with the United Nations concerning your package that is on hold now is a legitimate transaction and you must try and see you provide all that is been requested for the security of this great country.” Part of the wording of an apparent e-mail scam that purports to be from Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, for which Abbott's office has issued a consumer alert Source: Houston Chronicle “She’s special in every way. She’s brilliant, beautiful and sweet. I’m very, very lucky.” Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, who has been single for nearly three decades but became engaged on July 3 to Carole Rome, a 38-year-old divorced mother of two who has been the 51-year-old governor's girlfriend for nine months Source: Denver Post “You can’t find one woman in all of Florida?” New York Times writer Deborah Solomon, referring to Crist's longtime bachelor status in an interview with the governor published June 22 Source: New York Times Magazine “I feel we were deceived.” Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, rebuking local jazz singer Rene Marie, who replaced the words of "The Star Spangled Banner" that she was invited to sing before the mayor's state of the city address with lyrics from "Lift Every Voice and Sing," which is often referred to as "the black national anthem" Source: Denver Post “I am not dying.” Former Florida state Sen. Skip Campbell, insisting that he has other, less-serious reasons for his expected departure from the race against incumbent state Sen. Jeff Atwater Source: Palm Beach Post