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More Huck Finn Than Gordon Liddy

by David Kurtz
09.25.12 | 12:14 pm

The weekend vandalizing of Rep. Michael Grimm’s Staten Island office that he called “an assault on democracy and the political process” turns out to have been the work of an eighth grader.

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