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John Garamendi: “Mr. Tonko, you might actually have bathrooms that work. You might actually have a place where kids would want to be.…”

On the recordJuly 24, 2012
Mr. Tonko, you might actually have bathrooms that work. You might actually have a place where kids would want to be. You'll have a school that has a decent paint job, air conditioning. Kids would want to be in that school. Yet we have schools across this Nation where you wouldn't want to be and I wouldn't want to be, and I certainly wouldn't want my kids in that classroom.
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John Garamendi
Democratic · California
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Jul 24, 2012

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