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David Minge: “So it sounds like the discrimination that we have suffered from in our rural areas in the State of Washington would…”

On the recordApril 27, 1999
So it sounds like the discrimination that we have suffered from in our rural areas in the State of Washington would perhaps have just been flipped and we would have had discrimination in the other direction, and instead of solving a problem, we would have created another problem of discrimination among different areas of this country.
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David Minge
Minnesota

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Discussing potential discrimination issues in rural Washington during a debate.

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