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Nearly 1,000 gather for Tea Party rally in Duluth

The group's fourth annual rally was packed on Sunday, with supporters calling for lower government spending. The keynote speaker, a Republican representative from Wisconsin, slammed President Obama and called the federal health care overhaul "the single greatest assault on our freedom I’ve seen in my lifetime."
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The group's fourth annual rally was packed on Sunday, with supporters calling for lower government spending. The keynote speaker, a Republican representative from Wisconsin, slammed President Obama and called the federal health care overhaul "the single greatest assault on our freedom I’ve seen in my lifetime."

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