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Caricatures of Elmendorf, Farrington, Van Hollen and Metcalf

By BY Examiner Staff • September 21, 2009 12:00 am

CBO Director Douglas Elmendorf

Greg Farrington, executive director of the California Academy of Sciences (I guess I made him look a little Dick Cheneyish)

U.S. Rep. Chris Van Hollen

Gabriel Metcalf, executive director of the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association

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