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‘Shovel Ready’

by David Kurtz
09.23.11 | 5:24 am

Our photographer Jeff Malet reminds me that Gary Johnson’s best laugh line from last night’s debate made it into our slideshow of the Top Ten Protest Signs of 2009.

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