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Ken Buck: “To call such jobs nonessential and such workers as nonessential is the very height of leftist, elitist philosophy.”

On the recordSeptember 22, 2020
To call such jobs nonessential and such workers as nonessential is the very height of leftist, elitist philosophy.
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Ken Buck
Republican · Colorado

Editor's note · Context

Condemning the labeling of essential and nonessential jobs during the pandemic.

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