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DonCoquixote

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6. Let tampa tell you about the GOP

Reply to otohara (Original post)

Thu Nov 14, 2013, 01:23 AM

Nov 2013

They purposefully made their own little town, out of Franklin Street, a deserted area with avacant dept sotres that was once Downtown Tampa. They did eveything they could to keep people out of the local stores. They even had a cigar tent which rpevented the GOp from going to the local cigar bars, which is a tampa specialty. They tried paying the lowest rate pssible for Hotelrooms.

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Let tampa tell you about the GOP DonCoquixote Nov 2013 #6

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