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Tina Kotek: “No parent should have to have this kind of day, and no community should have to live through this kind of day, and as we…”

On the recordOctober 15, 2026
No parent should have to have this kind of day, and no community should have to live through this kind of day, and as we learn more about the children and the adults who have been killed or injured, and their families and their loved ones, we are going to do a lot of crying, and we are going to cry together, and we’re probably going to cry privately.
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Tina Kotek
Democratic · Oregon

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Response to the school shooting in Bend, Oregon.

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