Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/01/21

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Subject: [Leica] Inauguration Costs
From: marcsmall at comcast.net (Marc James Small)
Date: Wed Jan 21 21:13:26 2009
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At 11:10 PM 1/21/2009, Ric Carter wrote:
 >not to mention that most money was party funds from private groups

To be fair, about half, or more, of the cost 
expended for the inauguration was public funds 
spent for security.  Virginia and Maryland both 
mobilized some of their State Guards to escort 
medical personnel, and that came out of State budgets.

Marc


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