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Public servants in action: (1) New Hampshire state Rep. Christopher Doyle, 26, was arrested in March and charged with slapping elections supervisor Gail Webster, 61, to the floor on election night after learning that he had lost his race for town selectman in Windham. (2) Shirley Martin, a member of the school board in West Orange, Texas, was convicted in February of disorderly conduct for threats against colleague Beth Wheeler. At a meeting, Martin had continued speaking after her colleagues had ruled her out of order, and subsequently Martin angrily told Wheeler, ''I'm going to stomp a mud hole in your ass.''
Exotic tax break: The St. Petersburg Times, profiling retired pro basketball player Matt Geiger in February, described his $13 million, 28,000-square-foot, custom-built suburban mansion and mentioned his 27 exotic animals that roam the grounds, earning him an unspecified ''tax break'' (although he told the Times he loves animals and would have them anyway).
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by Chuck Shepherd
