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The less-taxes, small-government political advocacy group FreedomWorks’ chapter in Albany hosted thE organization’s national chairman, Dick Armey, last Wednesday at Merry Acres Conference Center. Armey, a former House majority leader from Texas, was an engineer of the Republican Revolution of the 1990s. He was in Albany prommoting the book “Give Us Liberty, A Tea Party Manifesto,” which he wrote with Matt Kibbe. Pictured are, from left, Charles Stern, Thomas Waller, Army and John Waller.