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Beto O'Rourke: “For 30, 40 years, we've continued to sprawl out to the edges of the [E]arth and it was costing us more than we were…”

On the recordJuly 18, 2017
For 30, 40 years, we've continued to sprawl out to the edges of the [E]arth and it was costing us more than we were making as a community.
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Beto O'Rourke
Democratic · Texas

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O'Rourke discusses the economic impact of urban sprawl in El Paso.

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