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Democratic candidate for the 73rd House District held by Republican John O’Bannon, MD sent out a flier this week to residents of the 73rd House District.

A few weeks ago, I attended a Town Hall meeting held by Shields to correct his false claims that Delegate O’Bannon was somehow responsible for the Qimonda failure and the loss of 2100 jobs. The fact is, nothing could have saved Qimonda. The owner of the company was not interested in saving it.

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According to a Reuters Report, the Service Employees International Union Local 1000, California’s largest state employees’ union voted on Saturday to approve a strike authorization measure to protest furloughs of state workers and pressure state officials to ratify its labor contract.

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It would seem that Democrat candidate for the 73rd House Seat Tom Shields is accusing Incumbent Delegate John O’Bannon, MD of rewriting history. One would think that Shields would at least check his facts before throwing such an accusation at his opponent. Delegate Joe Morrissey, in arguing for accelerated grant payments said the plant might close without the $14 million grant advance. Morrisey failed to mention that 2 months before his attempt to give money to Qimonda, they sold off a large piece of their 200mm chip equipment for $289 million. He also failed to mention that this money went to the parent company in Germany, who was struggling due to the sharp fall in computer memory prices.

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