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John Bel Edwards: “Big insurance companies, big drug companies, big oil companies, they are not going to negotiate. They are not going to…”

On the recordJuly 22, 2007
Big insurance companies, big drug companies, big oil companies, they are not going to negotiate. They are not going to give away their power. The only way that they are going to give away their power is if we take it away from them.
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John Bel Edwards
Democratic · Louisiana

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Edwards emphasized the need to challenge powerful corporations.

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