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Gov. Cox’s passive support for unfair voting maps makes him a traitor to democracy.

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It wasn’t so long ago when the people of Boston rebelled against King George III’s infamous Tea Tax. Masquerading as Indians—complete with feathers and war paint—Boston’s colonists rampaged through ships that were storing their favorite breakfast drink, and dumped a fortune of tea into Boston Harbor.

Why did they do it? Because they’d had it up to here, paying a hefty tax on the tea while feeling that the motherland was unresponsive to the colonists’ requests for help from the crown.

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