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I'm having a tough time with this one. From Google, possibilities for "epicenter of the housing meltdown are": - Phoenix, AZ (Maricopa County): DA won the 2008

I'm having a tough time with this one. From Google, possibilities for "epicenter of the housing meltdown are": - Phoenix, AZ (Maricopa County): DA won the 2008 election, resigned in 2010 to run for state AG - Cuyahoga County, OH: heavily Democratic - San Joaquin County, CA: DA in office since 2006 - Stanislaus County, CA: female DA, in office since 2006 - Atlanta, GA: heavily Democratic - Las Vegas, NV (Clark County): DA in office from ~2003-2012, then retired None of them seem to fit (I was surprised it wasn't Maricopa County). A mystery...

shangrila 15y ago
There are a lot more possibilities than just those six. It could be almost anywhere, really. For example, how about somewhere in Florida? There have been lots of foreclosures there, and it has a large conservative population. Also, the poster said "conservative" but didn't explicitly say "Republican", so you can't necessarily rule out counties with Democratic DAs. The poster also didn't give a timeframe. It could have been well before the housing bust for all we know. They were obviously being intentionally vague.
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cookiecaper 15y ago
Shouldn't be too hard to find, he gave a lot of unique information. We know that this was in the 2009-2011 timeframe, as this "was a bad time to file a lawsuit in that county". Here's a checklist of things that shouldn't be too hard to establish with some Google-fu: * Election results for "double-digit" losses by incumbent DAs. * Areas with a special division for "mentally disordered" clients (Is this a common term found everywhere? Dunno). * A (state?, unlikely, but I don't know of many county-level legislatures; they are generally governed by a mayor or council) legislature that started specifically evacuating drug possession cases from the docket (would this count as a "legislative pardon" or were the cases just reset?) as a response to 5+ year lag on civil suits. * "heavily conservative", which your list here seems to contemplate. * a sex-scandal embroiled DA, with reports probably emerging in the 2008-2009 timeframe. And there were other significant details in there too, but I think the sex scandal thing will be one of the best filters. Probably all you need is DAs-in-sex-scandals + election results from 2009-2011 to pinpoint the county. OP was not being sneaky or anonymous at all, anyone who cares can find out relatively easily.

shangrila 15y ago

There are a lot more possibilities than just those six. It could be almost anywhere, really. For example, how about somewhere in Florida? There have been lots of foreclosures there, and it has a large conservative population. Also, the poster said "conservative" but didn't explicitly say "Republican", so you can't necessarily rule out counties with Democratic DAs. The poster also didn't give a timeframe. It could have been well before the housing bust for all we know. They were obviously being intentionally vague.

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cookiecaper 15y ago

Shouldn't be too hard to find, he gave a lot of unique information. We know that this was in the 2009-2011 timeframe, as this "was a bad time to file a lawsuit in that county". Here's a checklist of things that shouldn't be too hard to establish with some Google-fu: * Election results for "double-digit" losses by incumbent DAs. * Areas with a special division for "mentally disordered" clients (Is this a common term found everywhere? Dunno). * A (state?, unlikely, but I don't know of many county-level legislatures; they are generally governed by a mayor or council) legislature that started specifically evacuating drug possession cases from the docket (would this count as a "legislative pardon" or were the cases just reset?) as a response to 5+ year lag on civil suits. * "heavily conservative", which your list here seems to contemplate. * a sex-scandal embroiled DA, with reports probably emerging in the 2008-2009 timeframe. And there were other significant details in there too, but I think the sex scandal thing will be one of the best filters. Probably all you need is DAs-in-sex-scandals + election results from 2009-2011 to pinpoint the county. OP was not being sneaky or anonymous at all, anyone who cares can find out relatively easily.