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Ashburn E-Report: Thanksgiving 2008

Thanksgiving Message

I have lived most of my life in California’s Central Valley and have seen with my own eyes how the economy has impacted the lives of my constituents. We lived through the oil shortages and stagflation of the 1970’s and the boom and bust cycles of the 1980’s and 1990’s. Among my relatives and close friends are persons who have known the deprivations of the Great Depression. I can say from personal experience that tough economic times do not last forever. When we came together as a state and as a nation we have weathered through the most difficult of times.
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I don’t usually copy an entire newsletter into the blog but I felt Senator Ashburn had several bits of good information. I probably won’t do this in the future, but since I haven’t received anything from him in a very long time, I put it all in here. I always post the link so that you can go directly to the website to get the whole newsletter.

Ashburn E-Report: November 2008

Historic Election

This election season from the national to the state level has been one for the history books. Regardless of the outcome we can all be proud of how our democracy performed and of how hard all the candidates fought to represent their respective constituents. And now at the end of the campaigns and in the best tradition of our democracy, the candidates will respect the results and wish the winner of the contests the best of luck in fulfilling the oath of their office.
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