California's New Election Rules Pose Challenges For Candidates

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The night of smoke, chaos, gunfire and grenades that killed four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, is well-documented. Eight months later, it is the decisions made back in Washington that remain murky and in perpetual dispute.

For any city controller in Philadelphia there is a conflict between the ideal job specifications and the political reality of getting yourself elected.

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