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[quote]QUOTE: <i>Originally posted by solzrules</i> <br /><br />[quote]QUOTE: <br />Winona MN - population 30,000+ <br />Mankato MN - 30,000+ <br />Owatonna MN - 20,000+ <br />New Ulm MN - 15,000+ <br />Brookings SD - 15,000+ <br />Huron SD - 15,000+ <br />Pierre/Ft. Pierre SD - 15,000+ <br />Souix Falls SD - 100,000 <br />Rapid City SD - 50,000 <br />Mitchell SD - 15,000 <br />Murphy Siding SD - 4[;)] <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />Those towns don't sound that small to me to be intimidated by the big bad railroad. Poor things. How will they cope? <br />[/quote] <br /> <br />well, just for the sake of discussion, in a hypothetical scenario where any one of those towns opted to resist the DME, how much re$ource$ would you say that DME would be willing to throw at them? <br /> <br />I'm just pulling numbers from thin air, but I'd hazard a guess that those towns smaller than 30K would be hard pressed to come up with more than just a couple $thousand for legal fees. <br /> <br />So, all DME would have to do is out spend them until they exhausted their resources. <br /> <br />Maybe many of them simply opted to not fight a battle they (the small fry villages) couldn't afford to win? <br /> <br />IF SO, that is certainly a new spin on the "everybody else approved it, except Rochester" argument.
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