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ARTICLE: Is CA the Next Great Hope for Conservatives

November 19, 2009

As this article from FoxNews.com describes, liberal legislative practices have left California in shambles with astronomical taxes and a hemorrhaging state budget. However, it wasn't always like this. At one point, conservative legislative practices like those that passed Prop. 13 were responsible for growing California to be one of the strongest economies in the world. Now, conservatives have a prime opportunity to take the state back and grow it to the power it once was.

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