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Mike Thompson: I think right would be all of us sitting down and figuring out what sort of tweaks we needed to make to make the system…

On the recordJuly 28, 2014
I think right would be all of us sitting down and figuring out what sort of tweaks we needed to make to make the system work.
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Mike Thompson
Democratic · California

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Thompson emphasizes the need for collaboration to improve the system instead of causing fear.

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