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Kurt Schrader: “The real world is we are the people that should be deciding what happens or not.”

On the recordApril 29, 2014
The real world is we are the people that should be deciding what happens or not.
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Kurt Schrader
Oregon

Editor's note · Context

Schrader emphasizes that elected officials should decide on programs, not unelected officials.

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