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On the recordJune 15, 2021
To turn around and tell voters to go back to the drawing board and re-define multiple other options which the majority has rejected three times in the last eight years in favor of statehood, would not only be insulting to us, but effectively serve as a form of voter suppression. That is simply unacceptable and un-American.
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Raúl Grijalva
Democratic · Arizona

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Grijalva criticizes calls for revisiting statehood options after repeated rejections.

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