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There simply is not enough money in the budget to shovel into more prisons and corrections personnel. Why do we have to vote for one or the other? I am voting for neither. A far better use of money would be to invest in education, which has been consistently shorted by the types of initiatives sponsored by Mannix, Sizemore, and their millionaire backers. These guys are typical of the upper class which presumes ownership of government, and hence thinks it knows what is best for the other 95%.

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