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Olympia Snowe: “The business of when rural state senators talk about rural people or poor people in far-off places and people say, 'Oh…”

On the recordApril 23, 2012
The business of when rural state senators talk about rural people or poor people in far-off places and people say, 'Oh, well, they're just, you know, pandering to their constituency,' is really not at all the case.
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Olympia Snowe
Republican · Maine

Editor's note · Context

Defending rural senators against accusations of pandering.

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