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Will Gov. Brown nip absentee florists in the bud?

“An almost perennial effort to prevent florists from misrepresenting the location of their business was sent to Gov. Jerry Brown by the state Senate August  13. The bill is the fifth such measure in 13 years to prevent call centers, potentially located hundreds or thousands of miles away, from using a local city or neighborhood in their name and duping consumers into believing they are patronizing a “local” florist.”

–Greg Lucas in California’s Capitol. Click here for the tale … 

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