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      <excerpt>...lousy football team anywhere. (&#8220;We want a bowl bid! When do we want it? Now!&#8221;) The American Civil Liberties Union and Rep. Bob Filner, D-San Diego, are asking Southwestern to do the same thing. The school says its policy follows state guidelines and</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Campaign Medal or who served on Johnston Island, a Navy outpost, beginning April 1, 1972, and ending Sept. 30, 1977. Rep. Bob Filner, D-Calif., the House Veterans Affairs Committee chairman who is the measure&#8217;s chief sponsor, said the bill goes a long</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...partially wrote statements for more than a dozen House representatives of both parties. The Times story doesn't mention Rep. Bob Filner, D-Chula Vista, who represents much of the South Bay and all of Imperial County. But a statement by Filner, placed in</excerpt>
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      <excerpt> A prime target could be Rep. Brian Bilbray&amp;#39;s 50th District in North County. &#8220;The big question is whether the Democrats who will largely control this process ... </excerpt>
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