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Danville, Virginia
Danville, Virginia erupts into Oval Office crossfire, its 55,000 souls crushed under ADA compliance avalanche—staff hours evaporate, municipal coffers hemorrhage from unfunded federal mandates. Bartlet's sarcasm lacerates the air: 'Are employees in wheelchairs supposed to work in the parking lot?' This modest Southern city morphs into blistering emblem of bureaucratic strangulation, streets shadowed by ramps built on borrowed time and treasure, igniting presidential fury that demands total cost reckoning amid policy inferno.
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S3E8
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The Women of Qumar
Bartlet Sarcastically Shreds Unfunded Mandates Gripes, Orders Total Cost Probe
Cited as poignant emblem of mandate misery—a Virginia town of 55,000 hemorrhaging hours and dollars on ADA ramps—forcing Bartlet's sarcastic visualization and fueling his audit pivot, humanizing abstract fiscal warfare.
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Evoked as economically strangled Southern locale
Functional Role
Illustrative case study in policy debate
Symbolic Significance
Microcosm of federal overreach on heartland America
Implied municipal buildings retrofitted expensively
Parking lots spotlighted in wheelchair sarcasm
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