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Cory Booker: “To eviscerate municipalities' ability to innovate, especially because disproportionately poor minorities live in cities…”

On the recordJanuary 20, 2015
To eviscerate municipalities' ability to innovate, especially because disproportionately poor minorities live in cities, would be unconscionable and unacceptable to me.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

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Booker emphasizes the importance of municipal innovation for poor minorities.

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