Article: Politics hits home for city's gadfly.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

Over the past decade, for a few minutes on Tuesday nights, she has held the attention of Fremont's most powerful political forum, the city council.

She comes dressed in black skirt, white blouse and carrying a stack of folders brimming with documents, newspaper clippings and petitions.

At the appointed time, she strides to the podium, clears her throat and launches a blistering verbal assault on the city's leaders. Their offenses are usually the same: Ignoring the will of the people, allowing construction in the hills, ravaging farmland _ and not keeping a proper count on horses. Or rats.

This is Linda Susoev, 40, who describes herself as a housewife ...

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