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Zoe Lofgren: it is not bad motives. It is good motives, but it ends up in a place where we are today that is dysfunctional in many…

On the recordJuly 13, 2009
it is not bad motives. It is good motives, but it ends up in a place where we are today that is dysfunctional in many ways.
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Zoe Lofgren
Democratic · California

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Lofgren discusses the unintended consequences of mandatory sentencing laws.

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