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“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
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“They are picking houses the way you pick tomatoes at the grocery store.”
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On the recordJuly 24, 2019
Removing a civil servant from his area of expertise and putting him in a job where he's not needed and his experience is not relevant is a colossal waste of taxpayer dollars.
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Raúl Grijalva
Democratic · Arizona
Source
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Criticizing the reassignment of a civil servant as wasteful and harmful.

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