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<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="+1" color="#000000">from Betsy
Russell's blog "Eye on Boise" for the Spokesman Review
reporting on legislative leadership's meeting with the press yesterday
in Boise:</font></div>
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Newcomb went after Wal-Mart for setting an example to other businesses
of profiting from keeping prices, quality, wages and benefits low.
"In a town like Burley Idaho, they set on the edge of town and just
suck the town dry - nothing ever grows," he said. "What I'm
worried about, is everyone else Š is going to adopt the same model
in order to compete."</font></div>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="+1" color="#000000">Way to say
it, Bruce!</font></div>
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<div><font face="Lucida Grande" size="+1" color="#000000">Mark
Solomon</font></div>
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