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- ↑ “Bond sale cuts teacher pension fund payments to $285 million” The Charleston Gazette (June 27, 2007)
- ↑ “$125 DIRECTV refunds due to 1,216 in state” Charleston Daily Mail (July 7, 2007)
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- ↑ “Sunshine for Hoods: State AGs and their trial-bar cronies,” The Wall Street Journal (February 20, 2007)
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