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What he really means

Fri., Aug. 13, 2021

OK, I can’t take it anymore.

Aug 4, 2021, lifetime County Commissioner Al French: “We hired Amelia Clark to make change and she’s doing … a yeoman’s job.”

Translation: “Amelia Clark does EXACTLY what I order, unlike these pesky epidemiologists who devote their lives to studying dire threats to our health and courageously tell us the truth.”

Mary Ann Murphy

Spokane

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