“I think we can all unequivocally say in 2026, football is not going anywhere.”
“When giant corporations and Wall Street investors buy up all the fire truck manufacturers, it’s a threat to public safety.”
“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
“It is imperative that FEMA helps communities quickly respond to wildfires and increase their resilience to future wildfire disasters”
“They are picking houses the way you pick tomatoes at the grocery store.”
“Protecting and defending innocent life is and remains important to our Legislature, governor, attorney general and citizens.”

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On the recordSeptember 18, 2019
You can't have absolute independence if the DA has to go to the grand jury and if the DA indicts a policeman, gets a policeman indicted, then the police, as we saw in New York--
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Steve Cohen
Democratic · Tennessee
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Cohen discusses the conflict of interest in local DA's prosecuting police cases.

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