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Tom McClintock: “If a community, say, in my district were invited to participate in this process, to make concessions, with the…”

On the recordJanuary 21, 2016
If a community, say, in my district were invited to participate in this process, to make concessions, with the expectation that they would be ratified into law and carried out, would you advise the people of my community to participate in such a process as you have been through? Just yes or no.
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Tom McClintock
Republican · California

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McClintock questions the value of community participation in a process without guaranteed outcomes.

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