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Thu, 11/29/2012 - 2:15pm

One of these numbers here just has to be right ... I thought this was pretty hilarious. Freshman GOP Rep. Chris Gibson, who just fended off a tough reelection challenge from Democrat Julian Schreibman, is trying to get out from under his pledge never to raise taxes that he made to anti-tax zealot Grover Norquist—a pledge he readily took when he first ran for Congress in 2010.

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