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On the recordAugust 8, 2011
they were a victim of it, I guess, would be a better way to put it.
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Deborah Koff Ross
Democratic · North Carolina

Editor's note · Context

Ross suggests that Florida was adversely affected by a consent decree they were not part of.

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