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field coordinator against the 1994 initiative, "He helped organize it. He'd go out door-to-door. He'd give speeches. He'd talk to editorial board meetings. He’d go to newspaper interviews. And it all worked. Jamie was with me in
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He declined to seek a second term in 1994. Instead, Parsons focused on the defeat of a 1994 ballot initiative, which would have moved the state capital from Juneau to
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