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"When handsome, young defense lawyer Paul Gallegos upset 20-year incumbent District Attorney Terry Farmer in 2002, many saw it as a watershed moment for Humboldt County politics -- a landmark cultural shift away from the good ol' boy conservativism that had dominated local government for generations in favor of stricter environmental accountability, a healthy respect for civil liberties and just general coolness (he surfs!). During his first few months in office, Gallegos made good on his campaign promise to shake things up by loosening medical marijuana guidelines and filing a massive fraud lawsuit against the Pacific Lumber Co.\nNearly eight years later, the DA's office -- and the politics surrounding it -- have indeed changed profoundly."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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