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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Aug 20 13:32:19 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by Olog-hai on Tue Aug 20 12:58:13 2019.

Yes. Are you proposing it for a license plate?

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate?

Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Aug 20 13:33:32 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate?, posted by FYBklyn1959 on Tue Aug 20 12:44:54 2019.

I don't really like that one either for whatever reason. Not as bad as the "new" proposals though. I like the former one before the current retro one best so far.

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by BILLBKLYN on Tue Aug 20 13:45:08 2019, in response to Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by Bill Newkirk on Tue Aug 20 07:11:44 2019.

2.

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by Catfish 44 on Tue Aug 20 17:04:32 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Aug 20 11:32:22 2019.

Maybe because there is an egomaniac in Albany.

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by Catfish 44 on Tue Aug 20 17:11:02 2019, in response to Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by Bill Newkirk on Tue Aug 20 07:11:44 2019.

How about they all suck and this is a cash grab by the state.

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Wed Aug 21 00:30:42 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Aug 20 11:53:17 2019.

I like that one as it is the one most likely to screw up OCR for plate tolling.

I think the only one I'd be annoyed with is #4. That might get me to buy one of the custom plates (like NY Parks or something).

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by gp38/r42 chris on Wed Aug 21 00:48:37 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Wed Aug 21 00:30:42 2019.

I agree with 4. That one is just awful.

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Wed Aug 21 01:03:24 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Aug 20 11:33:35 2019.

The 2nd one is kinda nice because it calls back to the old liberty plates.
The 5th one has the same graphics as the blue and white ones it's replacing, just at the bottom instead of the top.
The 1st one looks ok close up but at a distance would probably look like the plate is dirty on one side.

I've read conflicting reports that they won't make anyone with plates < 10 years old replace them. If I can keep my gold ones through the 202Xs that would be fine too.

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Wed Aug 21 01:07:28 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Aug 20 12:17:18 2019.

The only issue I have with Excelsior is that it's going to confuse the hell out of cops in other states for a few years. That's where stuff like "Commercial", "Trailer", "Apportioned" usually goes. What the heck type of vehicle is an "Excelsior", other than a ship in Star Trek?

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by gp38/r42 chris on Wed Aug 21 07:15:00 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Wed Aug 21 01:03:24 2019.

The 5th one has the same graphics as the blue and white ones it's replacing, just at the bottom instead of the top.

It's replacing the current retro yellow ones, which replaced the Niagara falls/city ones.

Anyway, they never make you Chand them, just new registrations, or if you want one.

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by gp38/r42 chris on Wed Aug 21 07:15:55 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Wed Aug 21 01:07:28 2019.

It has a motto or saying in most states, so that's the least of it. It's just dumb though

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Aug 21 07:34:20 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by gp38/r42 chris on Wed Aug 21 07:15:00 2019.

No, it's not replacing the orange ones, it is replacing the "Niagara Falls" ones. And they are making people change them, just like they did when they introduced the "Niagara Falls" ones.

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by Catfish 44 on Wed Aug 21 12:32:20 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Wed Aug 21 00:30:42 2019.

I got custom plates this summer myself

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by orange blossom special on Wed Aug 21 12:41:52 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Wed Aug 21 01:07:28 2019.

Now you tainted it the next time I start seeing this on the plate.

But at least you're not Penn. They were the first state to put their website on a license plate which was a big deal. 123 years later, it's still there.

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by Olog-hai on Wed Aug 21 12:42:31 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Aug 20 13:32:19 2019.

No, but I would have liked to see the concept moved to the Fredo's F'n Faddah Bridge.

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by Olog-hai on Wed Aug 21 12:43:22 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by orange blossom special on Wed Aug 21 12:41:52 2019.

Yay for that. They even kept up with the URL changes.

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Wed Aug 21 12:59:08 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Wed Aug 21 01:07:28 2019.

What the heck type of vehicle is an "Excelsior", other than a ship in Star Trek?

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by Olog-hai on Wed Aug 21 13:32:25 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by FYBklyn1959 on Wed Aug 21 12:59:08 2019.

When will bus operators finally abandon those "wave" motifs that have been on there for about two decades now? I always thought they were ugly.

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Wed Aug 21 13:43:11 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Aug 21 07:34:20 2019.

Only half correct:

It will replace the state’s “Empire Gold” plates, which have been in circulation for almost a decade.

https://nypost.com/2019/08/19/new-yorkers-get-a-chance-to-weigh-in-on-new-state-license-plate/\

Nut yes, apparently you will HAVE to get rid of the old "Niagara Falls" one if you have it.

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Wed Aug 21 13:45:30 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by Catfish 44 on Tue Aug 20 17:11:02 2019.

Apparently they WANT either the Niagara Falls/City one at bottom, or the Bridge with our corrupt governor's father's newly renamed bridge on it, and disguise this as a vote, as with 3 Statue of Liberty ones, those three will split the vote of those that like the Statue of liberty idea, thus cancelling them out, and you are left with the Tappen Zee Bridge (I will not call it by the "new" name) or the Niagara falls/City one.

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Aug 21 13:46:42 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Wed Aug 21 13:43:11 2019.

It will eventually but not immediately.

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Wed Aug 21 20:51:54 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by gp38/r42 chris on Wed Aug 21 07:15:55 2019.

The motto confuses cops too.

New Mexico had to change theirs to specifically say New Mexico, USA because out of state cops thought they were foreign.

Washington DC changed theirs to the more colloquial name after some midwest cop thought a driver with a plate displaying "District of Columbia" and "Taxation without Representation" was a making a sovereign citizen statement.

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Aug 21 21:16:47 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Wed Aug 21 20:51:54 2019.

Any cop who makes that mistake should be fired on the spot and barred from ever working in a law enforcement capacity ever again as being of substandard intellect.

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Wed Aug 21 21:30:53 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by orange blossom special on Wed Aug 21 12:41:52 2019.

So much for tailgaiting, & distracted driving. After all, you have to be close to the car in front of you to see it.
Its one thing to glance at a slogan, but noting & remembering a website on a license plate at 70mph requires a few seconds of diverted attention, which is not good, to say the least.

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Wed Aug 21 21:52:38 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by Fisk Ave Jim on Wed Aug 21 21:30:53 2019.

At least in Flori-DUH, the website is pretty big to read

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Aug 21 22:01:10 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by FYBklyn1959 on Wed Aug 21 21:52:38 2019.

Careful. Some cop will think "MyFlorida.com" is the name of a state.

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by BILLBKLYN on Wed Aug 21 23:12:53 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Aug 21 21:16:47 2019.

EXACTLY!!!I was gonna say the same thing!

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by mtk52983 on Wed Aug 21 23:16:16 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by BILLBKLYN on Wed Aug 21 23:12:53 2019.

Rental car companies in the southwest have an issue with reps who don’t understand that New Mexico is part of the United States. A friend once told me of one time he was picking up vehicle in Southern California and returning it to Albuquerque, New Mexico and the rep would not process it.

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by Olog-hai on Wed Aug 21 23:40:02 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Wed Aug 21 20:51:54 2019.

Just saw a NM plate today that said exactly that. Doesn't seem to matter to the incompetents that "New" is written in English.

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by Olog-hai on Thu Aug 22 01:10:24 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by FYBklyn1959 on Wed Aug 21 21:52:38 2019.

I sometimes miss the days of the 56K warnings when it came to images. Remember those?

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by Olog-hai on Thu Aug 22 01:14:34 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by Catfish 44 on Tue Aug 20 17:11:02 2019.

Correct.

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by Olog-hai on Thu Aug 22 01:15:27 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Aug 20 12:17:18 2019.

Then you oppose the First Amendment.

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by Charles G on Thu Aug 22 08:29:06 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Aug 20 11:33:35 2019.

Actually, I'd suspect that there are three Statue of Liberty designs because that is what they don't want.

People who like the Statue of Liberty will split their votes among the three similar designs making it easier for the Papa di Fredo Bridge design to carry the day.

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Thu Aug 22 08:43:09 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by Olog-hai on Thu Aug 22 01:10:24 2019.

Yeah, some of them were pretty creative.

The favorite one that I personally used was for a set of pics that I posted from the Transit Museum during my last visit to NY 10 (!) years ago. I think it was something like "56K = Waiting for the Standards to run again" :)

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by bingbong on Thu Aug 22 09:16:50 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by Henry R32 #3730 on Wed Aug 21 20:51:54 2019.

If they're that confused, they probably shouldn’t be cops. This isn't part of their training? They aren't kept current on changes?

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Aug 22 09:36:50 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by bingbong on Thu Aug 22 09:16:50 2019.

Changes in plate style? Probably not. But the fact that New Mexico is a state? That's without question.

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by Spider-Pig on Thu Aug 22 10:19:28 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by mtk52983 on Wed Aug 21 23:16:16 2019.

I could understand the opposite, but wouldn't the rep in NM know that NM is a state?

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by Spider-Pig on Thu Aug 22 10:20:12 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Aug 22 09:36:50 2019.

Same thing with the "District of Columbia."

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Thu Aug 22 12:56:12 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by Spider-Pig on Thu Aug 22 10:19:28 2019.

I think he was saying that the issuing agent in California was the one that would not process the rental to be returned in NM.

This shit is going to continue as Millennials start to hold those type of jobs in larger numbers.

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Aug 22 12:57:37 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by FYBklyn1959 on Thu Aug 22 12:56:12 2019.

This shit is going to continue as Millennials start to hold those type of jobs in larger numbers.

Good post.

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by Spider-Pig on Thu Aug 22 13:00:33 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by FYBklyn1959 on Thu Aug 22 12:56:12 2019.

This shit is going to continue as Millennials start to hold those type of jobs in larger numbers.

LOL!

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Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate

Posted by Spider-Pig on Thu Aug 22 13:00:49 2019, in response to Re: Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Aug 22 12:57:37 2019.

figures.

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Cuomo accused of rigging to favor bridge design (Vote 4 Ur Favorite New York State License Plate)

Posted by Olog-hai on Wed Sep 4 14:40:33 2019, in response to Vote for Your Favorite New York State License Plate, posted by Bill Newkirk on Tue Aug 20 07:11:44 2019.

Now that Nate Silver is numbered among the accusers, he is now a "conspiracy theorist", lol.

Daily Mail

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is accused of 'rigging state license plate contest in favor of design featuring bridge named after his father Mario'

By Ralph R. Ortega | Published: :12 EDT, 4 September 2019 | Updated: 13:15 EDT, 4 September 2019
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has been accused of rigging a contest over the design of a new state license plate in favor of one featuring a bridge named after his father.

The contest asks residents to pick their favorite among five plates. Four of the plates feature some combination of the Statue of Liberty, gold and blue highlights, a state map and New York's motto, 'Excelsior.'

But a fifth is a simpler design featuring the Tappan Zee Bridge over the Hudson river between New York and New Jersey — which is officially named the Governor Mario M. Cuomo Bridge after the current governor's father.

Now, conspiracy theorists online have claimed that the contest is designed to split the vote of those in favor of a Statue Of Liberty design — leaving the bridge option to win.

The bridge, which opened in 2017 to replace an older span, was named after the current governor's father, who passed away from heart failure in 2015.

The Cuomo bridge is not a widely recognized New York landmark, and some have claimed its inclusion in the license plate contest is suspect.

'LOL yeah this indeed seems kind of rigged in favor of the Mario Cuomo (née Tappan Zee) Bridge license plate. A bunch of near-identical Statue of Liberty designs will split the SoL vote,' tweeted Nate Silver, editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight, a data-driven news site.

Dan Rivoli, a reporter on the local news channel NY1, tweeted that multiple Statue of Liberty designs 'threaten to split the vote, allowing the Mario Cuomo Bridge to grab a plurality to become the new official NY license plate.'

'Anti-bridge votes must consolidate around a single Statue of Liberty candidate' wrote Rivoli.

State officials have not yet announced the results of the contest, which officially ended just before midnight on Labor Day.

A spokesperson for Governor Andrew Cuomo did not immediately respond when DailyMail.com reached out.

Cuomo has been on the defensive about the license plates, with critics unhappy about the cost that will come with the winner of the contest. Plates that are 10 years or older must be replaced with the new one, once it is chosen.

The state legislature decided on the price, not the governor, Cuomo said on a radio program.

'They set the fee 10 years ago. You want to reduce it? I'm all in favor of it. But don't say, as you said, the governor set a $25 fee.' he said on WAMC.

As for the suspicions over the inclusion of the bridge design, Richard Azzopardi, a spokesman for the governor, told DailyMail.com, 'we'll leave the dumb conspiracies to the internet and the fringe politicians who ‎choose to live there.'

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Re: Cuomo accused of rigging to favor bridge design (Vote 4 Ur Favorite New York State License Plate)

Posted by AlM on Wed Sep 4 14:43:25 2019, in response to Cuomo accused of rigging to favor bridge design (Vote 4 Ur Favorite New York State License Plate), posted by Olog-hai on Wed Sep 4 14:40:33 2019.

over the Hudson river between New York and New Jersey

The Daily Mail does not employ copy editors.

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Re: Cuomo accused of rigging to favor bridge design (Vote 4 Ur Favorite New York State License Plate)

Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Wed Sep 4 14:53:04 2019, in response to Re: Cuomo accused of rigging to favor bridge design (Vote 4 Ur Favorite New York State License Plate), posted by AlM on Wed Sep 4 14:43:25 2019.

LOL, yeah, that was a pretty blatant mistake. Some obvious NYC Centric typical Ahole, that thinks just because the Hudson River is the border between New York and New Jersey in the spot he is familiar with it, it must be true for all NYC Centric asshole.

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Re: Cuomo accused of rigging to favor bridge design (Vote 4 Ur Favorite New York State License Plate)

Posted by AlM on Wed Sep 4 15:08:32 2019, in response to Re: Cuomo accused of rigging to favor bridge design (Vote 4 Ur Favorite New York State License Plate), posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Wed Sep 4 14:53:04 2019.

Some obvious NYC Centric typical Ahole

WTF are you talking about? The Daily Mail does not employ NYC centric people.

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Re: Cuomo accused of rigging to favor bridge design (Vote 4 Ur Favorite New York State License Plate)

Posted by BILLBKLYN on Wed Sep 4 15:50:43 2019, in response to Cuomo accused of rigging to favor bridge design (Vote 4 Ur Favorite New York State License Plate), posted by Olog-hai on Wed Sep 4 14:40:33 2019.

NO ONE wants a Tappan Zee Bridge license plate!

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Re: Cuomo accused of rigging to favor bridge design (Vote 4 Ur Favorite New York State License Plate)

Posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Sep 4 17:01:49 2019, in response to Re: Cuomo accused of rigging to favor bridge design (Vote 4 Ur Favorite New York State License Plate), posted by AlM on Wed Sep 4 15:08:32 2019.

FALSE! The author is based in NYC. Google the name.

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Re: Cuomo accused of rigging to favor bridge design (Vote 4 Ur Favorite New York State License Plate)

Posted by TRAIN DUDE on Wed Sep 4 17:19:13 2019, in response to Re: Cuomo accused of rigging to favor bridge design (Vote 4 Ur Favorite New York State License Plate), posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Sep 4 17:01:49 2019.

Office Drone gets bitch-slapped

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Re: Cuomo accused of rigging to favor bridge design (Vote 4 Ur Favorite New York State License Plate)

Posted by Orange Blossom Special on Wed Sep 4 17:31:55 2019, in response to Re: Cuomo accused of rigging to favor bridge design (Vote 4 Ur Favorite New York State License Plate), posted by Spider-Pig on Wed Sep 4 17:01:49 2019.

Pfft. Everyone knows there's no such thing as a News Bureau.
All of their writers are really based in Dubai.

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