She was the one who woke our whole family so we could get to Best Buy before they opened.

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"The whole town is like family, so it's very much a personal issue, " said Peyton Manning, son of longtime New Orleans Saints quarterback Archie Manning.

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So by the time I was six years old I would often be doing shows for my whole family that would go on for hours and hours.

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If this is the situation nationally, it's even worse in local politics, where one family often has a complete monopoly on power - passing posts around their relatives so they effectively rule the whole area.

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