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Jack Heinsius: Try ‘Looking out for myself’ as a new motto for Modesto

Re “Modesto officials defend land deal against critics” (Page A1, Jan. 25): The Bee’s coverage of the courthouse land deal should make Modestans consider a new civic motto. How about taking a page from Citizen Gervasoni’s playbook and changing the “Water, Wealth, Contentment Health” to “Looking out for myself” or “That’s how the game was played”? Those would be good ones!

Jack Heinsius, Modesto

This story was originally published January 26, 2015 at 3:20 PM with the headline "Jack Heinsius: Try ‘Looking out for myself’ as a new motto for Modesto."

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