• WarmSoda@lemm.ee
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    Also running for mayor is Cody Smith, a senior vice president at the First State Bank of Uvalde. Smith previously held the post and was mayor from 2008 to 2012. Prior to being mayor, he was a member of the city council elected in 1995 and served for 12 years.

    “I would come to the position with some experience,” said Smith, “[…] and then I just want to do anything I can to help this community, you know, heal and, you know, and prosper.”.

    Uh you know, stuff and, uh, and things. Not for money or anything.

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      his first initiative would be building a committee consisting of city, county and school district members to work towards a permanent memorial to honor the lives lost at Robb Elementary.

      Well, there’s progress. /s

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        We plan to throw the families a few more thoughts and prayers, and for a nice touch add some good marble. We don’t have to do the marble, it’s expensive, but we’ll do it anyway because we’re Good Christians. And after that I don’t want to hear another goddamned word out of the families, got it?

        – Cody Smith, probably