I want to protect the life of every single New Yorker because we have been losing population. We have been redistricted, we will go down two seats, and I do not want any New Yorker to go away. But I am just as much concerned with the people of Michigan as I am with New York.
Sherwood Boehlert: “I want to protect the life of every single New Yorker because we have been losing population. We have been redistricted…”
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Discussing population loss and redistricting in New York and its impact.
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